The Trick Question Thread (Elements version)

[Essence]

One.  Use Trainer +100 quanta, start game, cast 6x Granite Skin.  Done.


Next question: Under 1.27 rules, engineer a situation in which a Phoenix could turn into a creature capable of destroying the enemy's pillars and ensuring that his existing quanta gets taken away -- without spending any or quanta.  No matter how obscure or unlikely the situation.  (This one's not a trick question, just very tricky.)

[Hodari]

Run the phoenix into an opponent's skull buckler, getting a skeleton.  Endow one of your crusaders targeting his Eternity, play shard of readiness on it, then use that to rewind your skeleton and get a Devourer with endow ability, then endow it with your Pulverizer?

[TheIdioticIdiot]

Run the phoenix into an opponent's skull buckler, getting a skeleton.  Endow one of your crusaders targeting his Eternity, play shard of readiness on it, then use that to rewind your skeleton and get a Devourer with endow ability, then endow it with your Pulverizer?

u can't get devourer with endow ability...

[Falcon4415]

Under 1.27 rules, engineer a situation in which a Phoenix could turn into a creature capable of destroying the enemy's pillars and ensuring that his existing quanta gets taken away -- without spending any or quanta.  No matter how obscure or unlikely the situation.  (This one's not a trick question, just very tricky.)

Phoenix goes against Skull Buckler, turning into a skeleton. We then use the SoR'd Eternity Crusader combo to bring the skeleton back to life, getting a Fallen Elf / Druid, which mutates itself into a destroying creature, which we proceed to SoR for extra awesomeness (and the ability to kill enemy pillars).

EDIT: if Phoenix generates ash instead of skelly upon being Buckler'd, just apply an attack buff other than momentum to get it killed again.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

Under 1.27 rules, engineer a situation in which a Phoenix could turn into a creature capable of destroying the enemy's pillars and ensuring that his existing quanta gets taken away -- without spending any or quanta.  No matter how obscure or unlikely the situation.  (This one's not a trick question, just very tricky.)

Phoenix goes against Skull Buckler, turning into a skeleton. We then use the SoR'd Eternity Crusader combo to bring the skeleton back to life, getting a Fallen Elf / Druid, which mutates itself into a destroying creature, which we proceed to SoR for extra awesomeness (and the ability to kill enemy pillars).

EDIT: if Phoenix generates ash instead of skelly upon being Buckler'd, just apply an attack buff other than momentum to get it killed again.

what about sucking away opponent's quanta?
add a black hole into the mix?

[Falcon4415]

I actually hadn't understood that part of the question, but the answer is:
The creature you get from the mutation is a devourerThe creature you get form the mutation is a grav. nymph, which you rewind with the crusader (after killing all pillars) to drain the poor guy's remaining meager quanta
And I even came up with a trivial answer, which profits from Essence's slip here:

No matter how obscure or unlikely the situation.

The game bugs turning said phoenix into Chuck Norris, who then roundhouse kicks enemy's pillar stack and noms on his remaining quanta.
Well, it is unlikely, but it CAN happen.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

well, it seems that we got that rather hard question out of the way, I guess I will begin anew, as falcon didn't ask one

What is the maximum charges you can get in one turn on a Bone Wall? (the 7 charges when it's first played doesn't count)

[Nepycros]

Let's see.
Suppose you have 2 Fractals and 6 PU's in your deck. Both you and your opponent have fields full of malignant cells. You have 13 Electrum Hourglasses in play, a Malignant Cell in your hand (you had Mindgates that stole his Electrum Hourglasses), and 2 Unstable Gases in play. You blow one up, getting 92 charges on the shield, and play your lone Malignant Cell once the field is clear, then you use your Hourglasses to draw all 6 PU's, which you play on the cell. Now, you use it again, and get a Fractal in your hand. You play it, then draw 5 Supernova's, which you play, and then use the Hourglass again to gain another Fractal, which you play. You have 23 Malignant Cells on the field. Now, you play UG one more time, gaining another 46 charges.

So, using a deck, you can gain 138 charges on your shield in a single turn.

[XYTWO]

Since Nepy didn't ask a question, I'll ask one.

What elements have no creatures immune to Skull Shield?

[QuantumT]

Since Nepy didn't ask a question, I'll ask one.

What elements have no creatures immune to Skull Shield?

Depending on how spark interacts with the shield (I don't know exactly tbh), either or none of them.

[XYTWO]

Since Nepy didn't ask a question, I'll ask one.

What elements have no creatures immune to Skull Shield?

Depending on how spark interacts with the shield (I don't know exactly tbh), either or none of them.

Just 

[Nepycros]

Earth doesn't have any creatures immune to shield? Antlion has the lowest attack, I thought.