Your synergy path?

[Daytripper]

I was wondering if the game is somewhat biased towards certain elements, depending on your start.

For example, I had started with earth. That naturally points you in the direction of time and gravity. For me, it was time more than gravity. I liked the rewinds, but wasn't motivated to play gravity cards at all. I guess you'd have to play an ''obliterator light'' to get to that combo, but graboids are just easier. Sure enough, I got a full time deck when the scorpion was brought out.

I noticed if you make an anti FG deck with ROL, you've got aeter anyway. Aether goes with anything, since there's a lot you can fractal. It's very popular for a duo. Make a voodoo FG deck, and you see the earth/darkness connection also. And it is easy to get a dark deck, since you win all the base cards off the FG's anyway.

Recently I took an additional deck. Water and earth are actually pretty bad. You don't need much earth to work with the trident. Though If you take water, you will naturally be taking death cards and vice versa.

After all that, I saw I barely touched the entropy and fire cards, other than for support, and even less, the light/air/life.

That made me wonder if some people who had started with entropy/fire/light/air/life took a totally different path.

[EvaRia]

I started with Air and the first deck I made was a FFQ Hope deck. I began to like life and light cards as well, but my win-rate was pretty bad and I wasn't very efficient.

Then I started getting really active in the forums and switched completely into a shrieker rush, and then to RoL Hope.

So I guess it didn't really affect me that much.

[Alyzia]

I started with Fire and played it for quite some time. I was distrustful of duos for a while, so I wasn't too tempted to just add another element in. When I went up against FGs, I completely switched to the Mono-Aether defense. And after some time on to a SG rainbow and then anything. So I guess I didn't have a synergy path so much as a sequence of unrelated decks.

[Daytripper]

I started with Air and the first deck I made was a FFQ Hope deck. I began to like life and light cards as well, but my win-rate was pretty bad and I wasn't very efficient.

Then I started getting really active in the forums and switched completely into a shrieker rush, and then to RoL Hope.

So I guess it didn't really affect me that much.

That is kind of what I thought. You picked exactly the first 3 elements that were least likely for me and consecutively too.

[Raptor6789]

i started off with darkness . i switched to mono-aether to take advantage of the phase shields and immortal creatures. then i switched to aether-time  cuz i had this random idea that golden hourglass would make my deck much faster. then i went mono-time . then i went for an FFQ deck to get EM's . i modified it a bit but back then my deckbuilding skills sucked so my winrate got much lower. then i switched to the standard death rush . (this was when i got active in the forums) then i got bored of that and got a standard life rush . then i got bored of that and decided to farm t50's with an immo-lava golem deck . my luck sucked so i switched to a standard graboid/shrieker rush and farmed ai3's again. then i saw grabbix and that is the one i currently use to farm ai's today.  im currently saving up for an FG deck with upgraded cards.

... as you can see, my early stages were quite rough. but the experience with all of the elements has helped me.

[Tea is good]

Nah, I heard lots of guides where everyone starts at fire (idk if that was it) because you can sell it for the most money and make (insert deckname here) faster.

[EvaRia]

That would be Darkness.

[xdude]

Well, I guess I'm the odd one here.

I started with Aether, and after getting pummeled by T50's I made myself a Rainbow. A 60 cards Rainbow with no card draw. It kicked butt in Kong PvP  8)

[nilsieboy]

i started with water, always took it as a base (full water set to now) and i still enjoy it.
i never went away from my favorite element

[Jappert]

I started out as Light, because in every game I play I always go for the more defensive roles or healing. (Paladins, Protection, Defense etc.) So I thought that would be the mark for me.

I quickly changed to shrieker rush to get all Kongregate badges, I wasn't intending to play this game for very long and wanted to get it done.

To get the Kongregate "Hard Badge" you had to kill a FG, for that I took a basic (at that time) unupgraded FG deck with Otyughs, Sundials, an Eternity, Bonewalls etc. (60 cards!...). After killing a FG (Incarnate, my first!) and seeing there were upgraded cards, I got hooked.

Now, I play with whatever deck I find interesting and fun. I've always liked the underdogs (Vitesse supporter here!) and I'm very fond of the Gravity, Air and Death elements. I find those a bit more unusuall then the others with very interesting characteristics (calling grammar police).

[RootRanger]

I think I started with light as a new player, but often reset my account to choose a different starter deck. I remember playing darkness and entropy. After that I believe it was a gravity deck that I grinded AI3 with. I upgraded Otyughs and SoGs when I won them and used SG's rainbow to grind FGs. After upgrading some of it I moved on to CCYB for more money. After getting bored I focused on PvP. My decks were decent but not that great until I made my first PvP rainbow (unupped). I modified it and made some more rainbows for different opponents.

So there was basically no correlation between my original elements and what I play now.

[yee]

I started with (at that time starter deck gave one pillar from every element and one card from every element and then about 10 aether cards) I played that deck for a while, until I found out that pegasus dive was staying if it was coppied with Parallel Universe. To addition my first rare wepon, that I won, was Owls Eye (at that time there weren't wepon quest yet), which worked well with my deck. My deck was consisting of pegasuses, Immortals, blessings, parallel universes and Phase shields + some random cards which were fuelled by quantum pillar. That was my first deck that had over 50% win rate against lvl3. Then I started to collect to buy Phase dragons, because I wanted to build a mono False God grinder, but when I had about 3 Phase dragons the Upgraded cards were introduced and Flase gods got better ai, so mono wasn't False god killer anymore. I made some different accounts to try some different decks (they were  , , and ), because I didn't have enough money to change mark. deck was for mutations, for rainbow, went for blessing Pegasuses and tried get enough to buy Lava golems.
Now I have full upgraded mono for top50 and lvl5 grinding and I was trying to make Hope deck until fracal got nerfed. has half-upgrded Golem rush and is starting to hit top50 and lvl5, has half-upgraded blessed Pegasus, has rainbow with some upgraded cards and is just collecting until I think what to do with that one.
I have been Elements player for a long time (allthough still not very good) and I recently joined foorums