Newb Guide

[Phaser]

If you need help, read this guide.

The Beginning
On the game screen, click "Play Now"
Choose a good username and a hard-to-break password.
Now all you need is a element and an Ai3 grinder.

Power Rising
Personally, I would chose Earth , Death , or Life .
Depending on what you chose, follow this page's instructions for your element.
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1190.0.html
Now you have a deck that can beat Ai3 !

Grind Time!
Now repetitively beat the Ai3 with your resultant deck. I know, it's boring but it's the only way.
Oh, once you completed the 500 score quest, pick Arsenic as your weapon.
After that, any cards you won, DO NOT SELL THEM!
I repeat, DO NOT SELL THEM!
If you do, building new decks require a LOT of money (electrum if you're getting all technical).
After you gathered about 1500 coins build this: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,32117.msg434801.html#new
Now you have a even faster deck to beat Ai3!

Entering The Arena
Now by then you should have tons of money right now. Grind the silver and bronze league and save the gold and platinum for later. You should take out lycan for a chaos seed and add 2 fog shields. Otherwise, just keep the lycan and the chaos seed along with the 2 fog shields.By then , you should have noticed the oracle. And you should have built an Arena deck with the mass amount of cards you have.

Identifying Types of Decks
Denial decks: They have Earthquake, Devourers, Reverse Time, Black Hole, and Discord. Generally, they are duos or speedbows.

Rush decks: Immolation, photons, novas, gnomes, graboids, phoenixes, lava golems, and lycantropes. Often monos, rainbows, and duos.

Stall decks: Dimensional Shields, Stone Skin, CC creature control, any healing, and fire shields, oh, and antimatter sometimes.
Usually duos or rainbows.

[Phaser]

Half-Blood Killer

Now it's time to destroy Half-Bloods!

Half-bloods can give a small chance to give you an UPGRADED card if you can grind them effeciciently.

First of all, we need a Half-Blood grinder. 

Unupgraded decks:

Deathly Dragon Wall

Code: [Select]

52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52h 52h 52h 52i 52i 52i 52i 52p 52p 52p 52p 52r 52r 52r 52r
The Essential Halfblood Farmer

Code: [Select]

61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61s 61s 61s 61s 61s 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61v 61v 61v 61v

If you have tons of money and some rsres from the Arena grinding:

Code: [Select]

7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jq 7jq 7jq 7jq 7jq 7jq 7js 7js 7ju 7k0 7k1 7k2 7k2
Grind the Half-bloods with these decks, but keep a Ai3 grinder in case if you are losing too much score or money. If you want a diffrent deck, go to http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,180.0.html .

Grind the Half-Bloods until you have like 7k score (oh, and I have 7906 score from Ai3 farming but it was hard work) and enough money to upgrade more cards.This will help you with the next two steps.False Gods and the Gold and Platinum Arena!

[Phaser]

Annoying The Gods
Now it's time for the next step, False God grinding!
We have four paths to False God grinding.

CCYB Unupped:CCYB is now weak with the nerfs to SoG. Use at your own risk!

Code: [Select]

4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vn 4vn 58v 58v 592 592 5fa 5fa 5i9 5i9 5li 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5oj 5rl 5rl 5rl 621 621 623http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,23978.0.html
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,9545.0.html
Note: DO NOT ADD SHARDS, THEY HEAL LESS!!

Liquid Antimatter

Code: [Select]

4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 5uo 5uo 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/decks/anti-false-god-decks/liquid-antimatter-unupped-fg-farmer/
http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/decks/duo-and-trio-decks/liquid-antimatter-next-level-entropy-darkness/

Limitless speed FG OTK [Semi-Unupped][Epic]

by Phaser

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 55q 5mq 5mq 5mq 5op 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 61r 61r 61r 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 7dr 7dr 7jq 7q5 7q5 7q5 8pu

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,31572.0.html
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,31570.0.html

RoL/Hope

Code: [Select]

5lk 5lk 5lk 5lk 6rn 6rn 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jq 7jq 808 808 808 808 80e 80e 80e 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i 808 808 808Note: Minium upgrades: 6 RoLs and switch out the shards for sanctuary!

The Upper Arena
Now it's time to farm the Gold and Platinium Arena leagues!

The JMZ Classic:

by Phaser

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6tt 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 71b 745 74f 77g 77g 7ai 7an 7dl 7dq 7gv 7ju 7n3 7q5 7q5 7t9 7t9 80b 8pj

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28027.0.html

by Phaser

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

74d 74d 74d 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 7dm 7dm 7dm 7dm 7dm 7dm 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7ds 7ds 7ds 7ds 8po

by Phaser

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

4sa 4sa 4sa 55v 5if 6qq 6qq 6qq 6tt 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 71b 74b 77f 77g 7ai 7an 7dl 7dq 7k5 7n3 7q5 7q5 7t9 7t9 80b 8pj

by Phaser

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t8 7t9 7t9 7t9 7t9 7ta 7ta 7tb 7td 7td 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i 8pu

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28170.0.html

GOOD LUCK!

 

Oh and by now you should be building good decks and built your Arena decks!I will post the link for Identifying decks and other useful links!

[Calindu]

I fail to see why you took Arsenic instead of lobo/pulvy/eternity and start grinding FG's.

[DarknessDemon]

i also would not recommend grabbix... I would recommend the pvp graboid rainbow. As for it does not use any immolations and now the immolation nerfs kind of annoying becasue the deck has unupped phoenix whichwouldnt be playable until you had 2 immos going. So maybe design a new similar deck but take out the 2 phoenixes...

[Phaser]

I fail to see why you took Arsenic instead of lobo/pulvy/eternity and start grinding FG's.

Arsenic=Most arena grinders=rare spins=money and more rares

[Aves]

So... does this say anything meaningful differently from Xenocidus' 1.28/9 guide (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28742.0.html)? 1.29 really isn't all that different in terms of starting up.

[FlarePod]

Oh this is a good idea
I like how you dont let out a single detail.

Short and to the point.

[furballdn]

So... does this say anything meaningful differently from Xenocidus' 1.28/9 guide (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28742.0.html)? 1.29 really isn't all that different in terms of starting up.

Xenocidious's guide doesn't really mention the arena much. Ideally, the arena should be after you can take on AI3 with ease. If this guide wants to be useful and more detailed than Xenocidous's, mention the arena more. Give more tips to that.

[Aves]

@furballdn Er... it does, actually. It doesn't focus on one arena farmer, but his section on the Arena does include advice for the Arena and several links.

@Phaser
I'm not saying Xenocidus' guide is perfect, but it really does cover all bases. Phaser, what you have is a good idea, but I'm just not seeing the need for it right now. You do have the right idea in placing the Arena section before the FGs- The once-a-day FG is useful, but not all-important, especially in that early stage when you can't build all the counters.

Identifying Types of Decks
Denial decks: They have Earthquake, Devourers, Reverse Time, Black Hole, and Discord. Generally, they are duos or speedbows.

Rush decks: Immolation, photons, novas, gnomes, graboids, phoenixes, lava golems, and lycantropes. Often monos, rainbows, and duos.  This would be true of all decks except trios...

Stall decks: Dimensional Shields, Stone Skin, CC creature control, any healing, and fire shields, oh, and antimatter sometimes.
Usually duos or rainbows.

This is really really good- we could definitely use something like this, though it'd probably be better as its own thread.

[TribalTrouble]

I agree with Aves. Make a guide to identifying decks as that is really all we need now with Xeno's guide around. However, thank you for the effort you put into this Phaser =-)

[Xenocidius]

Reserved for next parts, eh?

This has an advantage over my guide in that it is a lot more compact - less tl;dr issues.

The Identifying Types of Decks seems out of place, and I agree that it could fit into a guide of its own.

Nevertheless, good job. We can never have too many tutorials, right?