without the forums the actual game would indeed be very dull and it would be harder to learn how to build effective decks. some people, however, seem to have got all this the wrong way round now and spend far more time on the forums than the game itself. this is rather odd if not ironic as the forum was built as a response to the game not the other way round. without elements we would not be having this conversation...
...so everyone, turn to another tab and get GRINDING you slackies
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now responding to the actual question, if i hadn't given up by now, my score would probably not be that far off mine now. my deck building was rather good (i made my own version of the graboid/shrieker rush completely uninfluenced, as with the dragon/phoenix/immo rush). i would have lost scope at the point of FGs and i never even considered the concept of rainbow decks (whoever thought of them first was a bloody genius) and that would have been where i lost interest.