Weekly featured cards poll - {Death}

[Laxadarap]

Aaaand Stone Skin article is done earlier than it should be. For that, the poll will probably last longer, but again, I usually write up these articles either friday/saturday/sunday/monday around that time. Yeah.
http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/Stone_Skin

Thoughts: I actually had to take some time and try and make this different from the Shard of Divinity article I wrote a long time ago. In many aspects, SoD is much better than SS, but SS allows for interesting combos like gnomes and titanium. Not really much to say, writing this felt very much like deja vu. Didn't find any actual deck threads for SoD, so I feared that it would be similar for SS, I was mostly right. I couldn't find one good unupped SS deck, so I had to go with the good upped SS decks I could find (and dragon made two out of those three Don't worry annele, I added your deck there, no need for you to sneak that onto the SoV article =P) And yeah, that's that. I really wanted to see some other card win since SS is pretty bland and I've already written about SoD, but the masses get the final vote.

Life polls are up!

For unupped, how about the immortal? It's one of earth's signature war decks, and works well even in unrestricted meta.

[furballdn]

I'm aware that the immortal is a very powerful and well-known deck, but I haven't found a thread dedicated to it.

[Poker Alho]

immortal? never heard of it, or maybe i've seen it but never knew it by the name "immortal"

[drolly]

immortal? never heard of it, or maybe i've seen it but never knew it by the name "immortal"

The Immortal is the stall deck relying on Stone Skin and Miracles to deck the opponent out. Usually spiced with Basilisk Blood, Diamond Shield and Sanctuaries. A standard build is probably what Cheesy used against me in 12 Lives Round #1 twice:

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This archetype doesn't have a thread?! Some experienced player please make one, or even better, a wiki article about it. It's become a classic in organized PvP, especially War.

On topic, the only scorpion which can actually attack the opponent seems to be in the lead. Nice. Pair it up with Bone Wall and let the opponent choose between killing off a cute critter, thus enhancing your damage reduction, and getting fatally poisoned.

[furballdn]

Emerald Shield article is up!
http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/Emerald_Shield

Thoughts: You guys really are cruel aren't you? Making me write articles for hard-to-write cards. Especially since Forest Scorpion was leading earlier. Speaking of which, has voting decreased? I remember like 50 votes during the first poll but only 30 this time. Anyways, onto the card. Shield cards are always a bit harder to write for since there often aren't many synergies or decks using it. Emerald Shield as well is also one of the lesser used shields. Personally, I feel that Jade Shield is a bit UP since the dr goes from 1->2 along with upgrade, but it gains 2 casting cost. Ice shield goes from 1->2 dr with upgrade and it's only 1 . Shield goes from 1->2 dr with upgrade for 4 ~= 1-2 . Anyways, again with decksleuthing. Decksleuthing is probably one of the hardest things to do. Ironically, I think I found more decks making use of Emerald Shield than scorpions. Another ironic point was how I could hardly find any decks using emerald, most decks used Jade, and so that's why the decks there are upgraded. I don't what to feel, but I personally believe it'd be better if more unupgraded decks were able to be found and put on the wiki so that newer players can use them.

This week fire polls will be up. I wonder which article you'd want to see.

[Poker Alho]

i always vote for the most underused, so Ash Eater it is!

[Rutarete]

I feel Fire Shield gets a bad rep, give it some love.

[ddevans96]

Furball, after this cycle of elements is complete, you should reset the polls and include more of the cards again. It's at the point where there's really not interesting and detailed articles anymore.

For articles that have already been written, just update or tweak the information where possible, and update the decks. The important part is not writing the articles, but keeping the front page of the wiki updated.

[PlayerOa]

I'll set fiiiiiiiirrrrrrreeeeee to the raaaaaaaaaaain~
Rain of Fire, if that wasn't obvious enough.

[timetock]

poor deflag. so unpopular

[Elbirn]

Nice to see Seraph getting some love. I for one actually LIKE that card. SoW+SoBe Seraph rush GOGOGO

[glennfoo]

to be honest, I think fire spirit and fire spectre is the least used here... it will be interesting to see what furballdn has to write

EDIT :Since I have reserved a post somewhere, this post ended up my 500th post. But actually this is just my 499th post. My 500th post is in a more meaningful thread