My Real-Life Elements Interview!

[ARTHANASIOS]

Good work, though I disagree with the whole "we won War because Firestall" thing. War is mostly mindgaming, you either predict your opponent's deck correctly or not. Some decks are more difficult to counter, but far than impossible.

but firestall counters everything

...

except fire

Stalls are countered by stallbreakers.
Sidenote: Please guys, stop using the OPness of some decks as an excuse to poor mindgaming...

[serprex]

ARTH, I believe Root was attempting to portray humor, rather than get into an analysis of their deck roster & strategy

[Physsion]

So balanced

[rob77dp]

So balanced

You know it is -- the counter exists!  Fire counters it, of course!

[Zyardran]

i might not be familiar with it, but that was kinda weird...... no offense, but......... i beat firestall in gold with mono dark very easily no less 

[andretimpa]

i might not be familiar with it, but that was kinda weird...... no offense, but......... i beat firestall in gold with mono dark very easily no less 

It's a little harder to beat someone with a brain.

[Espithel]

i might not be familiar with it, but that was kinda weird...... no offense, but......... i beat firestall in gold with mono dark very easily no less 

It's a little harder to beat someone with a brain.

Can confirm.

Brains are not very good bludgeoning weapons.

[ARTHANASIOS]

ARTH, I believe Root was attempting to portray humor, rather than get into an analysis of their deck roster & strategy

good point

I was just afraid everyone was going to jump to "firestall OP" bandwagon the same way people jumped to "monoaether OP" bandwagon at the previous Wars...

[andretimpa]

ARTH, I believe Root was attempting to portray humor, rather than get into an analysis of their deck roster & strategy

good point

I was just afraid everyone was going to jump to "firestall OP" bandwagon the same way people jumped to "monoaether OP" bandwagon at the previous Wars...

but monoaether is OP

[Ginyu]

Big thumbs up for this!
When are we likely going to see the full interview?

[ARTHANASIOS]

but monoaether is OP

And a lovely excuse to do any of the followings:
* Blaming your opponent's OPness instead of your lack of effort for losing (e.g. "I am not noob for playing a completely ineffective deck, it is just that Aether is OP").
* Auto-quitting any games against your OP opponent; games in which you had a fair chance if you put effort (e.g. "I have this awesome rainbow deck, but Aether is OP, I won't have a chance, I auto-quit").
* Causing urge to join that OP element instead of supporting the "weaker" ones (e.g. "I want to join the super awesome team Aether this War because it is so OP; please, I don't want to be picked by those other weak elements...")
* Causing hate against the OP element; I am such an example.

 Vets have a greater responsibility for the above syndrome, because they prefer to harvest the benefits of already expoiled strategies instead of exploring new areas and comboes and mindgating, thus creating even a greater gap between the strong elements and the weak ones. That's my 2 ...

[Zyardran]

i might not be familiar with it, but that was kinda weird...... no offense, but......... i beat firestall in gold with mono dark very easily no less 

It's a little harder to beat someone with a brain.

touche.....