To be moar serious I just agree with parasite99.
I don't see why the uppgrades should be cheaper for anything. That is what I really like in this game : it is very hard and long to have all the upped cards in *6 and 12 pillars/pends (even if I'm close to that now 
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So yes new players can't afford fully upped deck and ?
I gonna tell you my story : I had been hacked and thought that I won't see my account again so I started from scratch. The first day I build a crappy fire rush to farm AI3 to complete all the quest. Second day I build a grabbix and grind t50 to get some rare and money. then THe third day I farmed various things (t50/Halfbloods) for money and every day I built the oracle deck and won 2 upped cards.
Then I sold all I have to make a RoL/hope mostly unupped. The 4th day it was fully upped and at the end of the week I was at 20k points and ~60 upped cards.
So as a conclusion : If you take some time to collect cards and do it the good way you can have it very quickly.
Okay the days I played I wasn't busy and was able to play 8/10h per days.
For my part farming is an interessant moment in the game and now the arena make this not boring at all.
I think there is two way to see the game :
1) you are a casual player you ran unupped decks you can make tournaments pvp1 t50 and you can kill FG qiute easy with the oracle prediction and slowly get some upped cards/deck.
2) you have more time for the game and you involve yourself a lot in the game : you'll have all the upped cards you need quickly, trust me. (obv if you farm AI1/2 it is boring and it takes time to win cards). For farmers my advice is : change deck frequently (for FG I alternated between different version of RoL/hope and CCYB). Atm farming gold/plat league is a good way to get lot of money too.
Finally I don't mind that anything should cheaper.. And if you want to try a deck and have no money the trainer is here for that..
I hope this post help to understand my view and seems constructive for our discussion 
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It tells me that you are either unemployed or too young to get a job. 8-10 hours a day? Enjoy your youth while you still can.
How is a new user going to know what the grabbix deck is? Judging by the number of complaints that level 3 is too hard, not many. And I don't think you can play other people with the trainer, which I kind of want to do.
I did try changing decks to cut the monotony, but some of my ideas sucked and purchasing new cards is costly. Again, new players have trouble building good decks.
You are good at the game, and have sunk plenty of time into it. Can you say that for the working population though? If your parents wanted to play elements, and they had to grind as long as you, you wouldn't have a home to live in.
Coming back to your first point, some upgraded cards are vastly better than their vanilla counterparts. If a new player were to challenge a long-time player, the old guard would win hands down, no matter how fast the newbie picked up the game or how good they were. The competitive league would be limited to the few players with the time to upgrade, and new strategies and ideas would emerge more slowly. The elite would be dictated not by how good you are, but by how much free time you have, and that detracts from the competitive aspect of the game. I'm ok with losing, so long as I know I had the same resources as my opponent and that my opponent was genuinely better than I was.
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