Weekly Featured Cards poll - Other

[Jappert]

Agreed Higs,

I'm a big fan of Spine Carapace though and I'm still looking for a good way to implement it into some stalls.

[willng3]

Would have voted for Mitosis, but as I'm in the strong opinion that it needs a cost reduction, I won't vote for it yet :>

Frogs.  Adrenaline rushes and USEM have been my favorite decks for a long, long time.

[ddevans96]

What Jappert said. Thorn Carapace is a fairly underrated card.

[PlayerOa]

Simple, yet cute Heal gets my vote

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Heal, just plain EM maker

[Kuroaitou]

I feel so bad for all the older cards that are being left behind... ^^;

Oh well. Here's the article for Mitosis!

Overview
While similar to the Fractal spell, Mitosis provides an alternative way of generating multiple creatures from the Life element. After applying Mitosis to a creature, the owner can use the Mitosis ability to procure an original copy of the creature, based on the creature’s cost.

General Use

• Mitosis will grant a creature to produce its original (non-modified/mutant) self each turn.
• The cost of the Mitosis skill varies on the actual cost of the creature targeted.
• Cannot be used on flying weapons.

Mitosis is one of the many game mechanics that focus on creature swarming tactics. For 4-5 quanta, using the spell on a creature will replace its ability with the new active skill, Mitosis, which generates a non-modified version of the targeted creature when activated. It’s important to note that while Mitosis (the card) has a specific quanta value when used, the skill varies upon what creature you target. Using the Mitosis skill on a Photon will be free (Photon has no cost to play), whereas attempting to use the skill on a Crimson Dragon will require 10 quanta. Thus, the skill is only as efficient as the creature’s cost, similar to how Fractal works, but it doesn’t clog up your hand (or consume all ).

It’s important to note that Mitosis cannot generate exact copies of the creature you’ve targeted. For example – using the Mitosis skill on a mutated Abomination with increased stats will only allow you to generate regular Abominations (without any abilities). Thus, Mitosis often works well with creatures that are mainly used for their cost-efficient stats. It’s also vital that you know what skill you’re replacing with Mitosis – some creatures may have more useful that will prevent them from being hurt easily from CC or attacks that can help you in the short-term. Because of that, Mitosis can’t be used as a ‘burst’ maneuver to rush your opponent with creatures, but more of a gradual skill that becomes deadly as you keep making more daughter creatures.

One major tip is to never apply Mitosis to a creature that you’ve just played onto the field (unless you’re very sure the creature cannot be targeted). The reason for this is that by using the spell immediately on the creature played, the creature will still have to wait the one-turn rule to use the Mitosis skill, leaving it defenseless against the enemy’s CC, unless you have certain ways to prevent the creature from being killed.

In addition to all of the above, please note that flying weapons cannot be affected by Mitosis. Finally, in some unusual cases, applying Mitosis to an enemy AI creature can create innovative tactics, depending on what creature you use the spell on.


Synergies
While many Life creatures can work well considering their costs, Horned Frog | Giant Frog is one of the top candidates to use with Mitosis, considering its extremely cost-efficient damage. For essentially 7 (or less), one can begin spawning hordes of frogs that will slowly overwhelm your opponent, unless they have numerous CC cards to counter them.

And from the above, Quintessence | Quintessence is also a major support card. Many creatures that are cheap often have low HP, which renders them vulnerable to spell and creature-based CC from the opponent. Applying Mitosis to these creatures simply paints a bigger target on their head, but this simple alchemy spell can help prevent your main spawning creature from being trumped by a single Lightning or Rewind.

While many other creatures are great candidates for Mitosis as well as Frogs, Devourers | Pests are perfect in that their main mechanic isn’t overwritten by the Mitosis skill. Devourer, the ability, is a passive skill that triggers automatically each turn (while ‘Burrow’ is an activated ability). Because of this, Mitosis will keep the Devourer’s main quanta-draining technique while replacing their (potentially not so useful) Burrow ability, allowing you to produce swarms of the lecherous beings to deny your opponent of playing anything. Throw in a Nightfall, and the combination of damage and quanta denial will be quite a fight for you opponent to deal with, but again, Mitosis is much slower than Fractal, so it’s important that you time this combination carefully.

Other Cards With Synergy
Other free cards, such as Gnome Gemfinder, Dragonfly, and Photon can all work as an alternative to quanta generation, given that they don’t die immediately to CC or other effects. Sparks (when buffed to have more than 0 HP) can provide a new way of causing death-trigger effects, although the number of elements required to make that strategy work varies greatly. Other relatively cheap cards, such as Minor Phoenix, Crusader, and Vampire also work well given their abilities, but need an equally decent setup time for them to be useful. Empathic bond works wonders with the creature generator, improving the synergy for the Life element with any other creature. Finally, a rare (but very useful) card to have with Mitosis is the Shard of Readiness. By reducing the skill's cost down to 0, any creature (regardless of their cost) can be mass-produced for free over time; Dragons and Nymphs (creatures with the highest card costs in the game) can have an incredible synergy with this combo.

Conclusion
All in all, Mitosis is an alternative way of mass-producing creatures (beyond the 6-card rule) compared to Aether’s equivalent, and as such, is a great way to also surprise your opponent. Who knew that ‘an army of one’ could exist?

Popular Deck
Dark Purple Rain (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,25226.0.html)

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Other Decks

• USEMosis (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,10563.0.html)
• Neo-USEM (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,19771.0.html)
• Might Mito-Mutants (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,23911.0.html)
• Pestosis (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,19816.0.html)

Time to turn up the heat folks!

[Higurashi]

While Rage Potion has more uses, I can't deny my Golems a vote. They're so staple and so powerful, I think it's their time.

[PlayerOa]

Rage Pot, once again.

[Jappert]

I'm gonna go with rage pots here also.

I love the "surprise" value they have. It's a great attack boost for it's cost, while being great CC aswell. This diversity is what makes it an awesome card with lots of synergies in a wide variation of decks. Good stuff!

[ZephyrPhantom]

Lava Golem, where would the vNG be without them?

[Shantu]

Fire Spirit! So underestimated.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Lava Golem, used in many fire rushes