How old is this game?

[linkcat]

  Other Up to and including Hammer
   Up to and including Nova
   Up to and including Poison
   Up to and including Otyugh
   Up to and including Shrieker
   Up to and including Empathic bond
   Up to and Including Deflagration
   Up to and including Ice dragon
   Up to and including Blessing
   Up to and including Flying weapon
   Up to and including Golden Hourglass (Devonian Dragon was rare)
   Up to and including Nightfall
   Up to and including Phase Dragon

Rare weapons
Arctic squid

As far as I know.

[guolin]

TCGs don't have to be online, lol.

When they are offline it is a whole 'notyher story, you have to pay money and somehow win the lottery and find others that play as well.

I was talking about TCG's you have to pay for, yes. Although there is more variety, cards are usually not very balanced due to the sheer amount of cards.

There aren't any other free online card games, so how is it being different?

There are a few on Kongregate.
Very crappy compared to this.

Indeed. Mytheria is fun, but it is extremely, extremely limited even compared with Elements, and the developer kind of ditched it. Kongai is just extremely boring.

[linkcat]

Don't forget monster master. It's even more limited, but surprisingly deep.

[Demut]

I was talking about TCG's you have to pay for, yes. Although there is more variety, cards are usually not very balanced due to the sheer amount of cards.

The variety is often its own balance.

[suxerz]

There is a thread for elements' history created by cebra here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,12215.0.html). It's really a good thread.