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Off the Mark https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=8679.msg100823#msg100823
« on: June 25, 2010, 03:56:10 pm »
So I was wondering what cards you guys felt comfortable playing just off of your mark?

Here's my list:

Unupped:

:entropy Chaos Seed (6), Possibly Lycanthrope (4-6) (need  :darkness as main deck) or Mutation (4-6) but risky

:death Poison (6), Skull Shield (3), Virus (6) (not that useful)

:gravity Momentum (4-6), Gravity Pull (4-6), Possibly Fire Eaters (3-4) if main deck is :fire

:earth Basilisk Blood (4-6), Plate Armor (6), Enchant Artifact (3-6)

:life Horned Frog (4-6), Rustler (6) (if lots of :light quanta, Rustler can fuel any :life card off of just mark of :life), Forest Spirit (4-6) (need :water main deck), Druic Staff (2-4) (6 if flying)

:fire Deflag (4-6)

:water Chrysaora (6) (need :death in deck), Freeze (6), Ice bolt (4-6), Purify (6), Mind Flayer (4-6) (need :aether in deck)

:light Holy Light (6), Solar Shield (3), Reflective Shield (3-4), Ability of sundial (need sundial and :time deck)

:air Fog Shield (2-4), Thunderstorm (3-6), Flying Weapon (6), Shockwave (4-6) (Use Lightning instead)

:time Deja Vu (4-6), Reverse Time (4-6), Sundial (6), Precognition (3-5), Ability of Graboids (needs :earth deck with graboids)

:darkness Devourer (6) (allows you to play a couple more :darkness cards...like 2 Dusk Mantle or 2 Steal or 2 Nightfall if you have a :death deck), Vamp Stiletto (2-4) (6 if flying)

:aether Lightning (4-6), Quintessence (2-4)

*Number in parantheses is approximate maximum in 30ish card deck.  i.e. (4-6) means 5 is probably optimal in most decks...
**This does not include decks that use Novas or Immolations
***I did not include small (useless) creatures such as Gnome Rider, Ash Eater, and Dragon Fly as they're not really usefull off the mark (unupped)
****No mark needed for Photon, Spark, Nova, Immolation, Luciferine

I'll try to make an upped list but I dont have time right now...if you have any comments, suggestions, questions, let me know

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Re: Off the Mark https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=8679.msg100828#msg100828
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2010, 04:01:27 pm »
Just at a glance...

Epinephrine can be played off mark, not ideally, but possible
EA should be 3-6
If you're including graboid's ability, include sundial's ability
Supernovas
You don't need aether mark to splash sparks

Edit: supernovas/epinephrine are upped so I guess they aren't included.

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Re: Off the Mark https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=8679.msg100834#msg100834
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2010, 04:10:14 pm »
Just at a glance...

Epinephrine can be played off mark, not ideally, but possible
EA should be 3-6
If you're including graboid's ability, include sundial's ability
Supernovas
You don't need aether mark to splash sparks

Edit: supernovas/epinephrine are upped so I guess they aren't included.
Not a big EA guy so I'll take your word for it...good catch with the Sunidal, fixed the Sparks (etc.)

thanks

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Re: Off the Mark https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=8679.msg100840#msg100840
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2010, 04:25:05 pm »
A lot of people play the ability of Lava Golem off the mark (1 :earth). You need :fire in that deck though.

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Re: Off the Mark https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=8679.msg100899#msg100899
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2010, 06:29:54 pm »
Well, yes, I have some more abilities

 :darkness Ability of Lycanthrope, nightfall/eclipse (without devourers)
 :fire ability of graviton fire eater, or steam machine (with immolations)
 :earth ability of lava golem
 :aether ability of mind flayer, ability of anubis
 :air ability of toadfish, ability of pegasus

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 :death (2-4) arsenic

And don't you think it's a little obvious to say u need sundials to use the ability of sundials  ;D
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Re: Off the Mark https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=8679.msg101126#msg101126
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2010, 10:52:50 pm »
 :earth  for lava golems.
 :fire  for triggering unstable gas.
:entropy  for supernovas.

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Re: Off the Mark https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=8679.msg101473#msg101473
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2010, 10:39:05 am »
I play Bonds off of the mark; considering it usually takes a few turns to have enough skellies to make it effective, the delay isn't that bad.

 

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