Guest posts by Mantriel

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Crucible Archive / Re: Treasure Room | Treasure Vault

« on: August 11, 2010, 03:18:22 am »

I like the card concept, I for one would consider something like this:

4 
Treasure room
This card can't be targeted by spells, permanents or abilities (=immaterial)
for 1 target permanent becomes immaterial for 3 turns.

Basically you would have to pay 1  every turn, to protect maximum 3 permanents.

Upgraded version:
3 
Treasure room
This card can't be targeted by spells, permanents or abilities (=immaterial)
for 1 target permanent becomes immaterial for 5 turns.


Basically you would have to pay 1  every turn, to protect maximum 5 permanents.

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Recurrence | Eternal Recurrence

« on: August 11, 2010, 03:10:36 am »

Recurrence is great, but eternal recurrence would change the Meta-game to drastically.

I suggest the upgraded version would be the same card (lasts 3 turns), but for 7

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Anvil Archive / Re: Skeleton Regent | Skeleton King

« on: August 11, 2010, 03:08:19 am »

Great card idea.

In my opinion the "bad side" (darkness and death) aren't very good on their own. This card would fix this, in a stylish way.

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General Discussion / Re: Hello my name is ... and I am a Noob

« on: August 11, 2010, 02:56:56 am »

Hello my name is Mantriel and I am a Noob.

I started with a firefly queen, rustler, empathic bond deck (Elemental master wins against AI1-2).
Moved on to a Mono life deck against AI3 (I used one of jmdt's decks) (6 horned frogs, 4 adrenaline, 5 cockatrice)
Than I tried the Mono Aether agro deck against Ai4-5 (6 Imortals, 3 dragons, 6 phase shields)
I tried a mono darkness deck, which didn't really work (6 vampire, 6 devourer, vampire dagger, nightfall).

And during this whole time, I am/was upgrading Scaredgirls Rainbow deck.

As a word of advise: if you have a "new" deck play at least 10 times with it against the AI it was designed against, you can't learn much in only 1-2 games.

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Level 4 - Reliquary / Re: Acceleration | Overboost

« on: August 11, 2010, 02:49:46 am »

I really like this card, seems to be absolutely balanced.
Perhaps Overboost could be +2/-2 instead of +2/-1.

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Forum Bugs, Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Avatar

« on: August 11, 2010, 02:47:29 am »

So I need to spam 2 more times, till I have an avatar? *doh*
Thanks for the reply.

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Forum Bugs, Suggestions and Feedback / Avatar

« on: August 11, 2010, 02:37:53 am »

How can I "change" my avatar?

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Life / Re: The Ultimate Speed EM Deck

« on: August 11, 2010, 02:18:59 am »

Thanks. It's logical once explained.

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Cocoon | Cocoon

« on: August 11, 2010, 02:10:35 am »

The basic idea is interesting, and I like it, but the card would be absolutely useless (well at least I can't think of any decks, which might want to use this).

With a mechanic like the Pharaohs scarab creation, or a boneyard like ability it could be great though.

A creature with an ability which turns your creature (infected, frozen, congealed, lobotomized etc.) creatures into a cocoon (without the frozen, congealed etc effect on it).
Or a permanent which creates a cocoon if any creature dies.
Or a creature which creates a cocoon per turn.

etc.

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Life / Re: The Ultimate Speed EM Deck

« on: August 11, 2010, 01:52:49 am »

Off:
I don't understand, why would anyone farm AI3 if you have so much cash to Upgrade a Mono rush deck?
On:
About the deck, it's a "basic" use 6 of all cards deck, what where your results with adrenaline and unUpped frogs?

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Rainbow Decks / Re: 60 card rainbow

« on: August 11, 2010, 01:30:30 am »

This looks like to me as a slightly changed "Scaredgirls rainbow" deck. (The basic mechanic is the same).
Thank you for the comments and explanations on the cards you use.

One thing I'm wondering about is, why are you using Elite Firefly queens? You should have more than enough fire quanta, and as you've said white quanta can be useful. (Ofc elite fireflies deal more damage, but I guess this deck isn't a rush agro deck )

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General Discussion / Where would be the best place to find uptodate decks?

« on: August 11, 2010, 01:06:39 am »

I am a little confused, usually if there is a game, it either has a wiki, or a forum, elements has both of them.

Usually if a game has a new patch, the older threads and wiki articles aren't obsolete, with elements there is a high chance they do.

Currently there is an old wiki page and a new wiki page.
There is a deck's thread and an anti Ai1, Ai2, Ai3 etc thread. And finally Scaredgirl started a new subthread against Ai 1-2-3 etc.

...

So if I would like to browse through some deck ideas, where would be the best place to find, uptodate Ai3-4-5-6 decks?