Section One - Recovery 0AIDE50

[DesertKnight]

Section One - Recovery 0AIDE50

[Kamietsu]

I first came to this game on kongregate, after one of my friends there started talking about it. When I first created my account, I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know what cards there were, and didn't know anything about the opponents or the elements themselves. I highlighted over each of the element descriptions before finally enjoying what I read in the Time element. I chose it, and enjoyed it a lot. I played with it for awhile, eventually choosing Eternity as my rare weapon, knowing nothing about the rainbow decks on the forum that so desperately relied on it.

I spent a lot of time with Time, eventually make a duo deck, then a trio deck, and then a very sloppy rainbow deck that was just barely beating the AI3 Elders. After awhile of playing, I grew a little bored and left the game. When I returned months later, I happened upon the forum and started to really soar in the elements game, gaining score fast, gaining new cards, beating FGs.

After awhile of getting people used to my presence on the forum, I became the first ever Master of Fire. Why you ask? Because Fire was an element I wished to learn more, that I found interesting... powerful. I fiddled with it, learning the techniques. It grew on me. And before long, Fire had replaced Time.

Jumping to the end of my story, though my profile says Fire, I have come to respect and favor all the elements, not one having superiority over the others.

[pepokish]

When I started playing Elements, I first chose water as my starting element (simply for the fact that I'm a pisces).  However, I didn't like how constrained the element was (at the time).  I tried out a wide variety of different elements in a comparatively short amount of time -- even a clunky, 'personalized' version of SG's rainbow.. none of it really suited me.  Finally, I discovered the Life element.  It wasn't as fierce back then as it is now, but I liked the simple creatures, the ability to heal, and of course, the cute Rustler.  By the time Adrenaline was introduced, I was smitten.

(I also find it quite fitting that my first Nymph was a green Nymph.)

One day, I got the idea to make fan art of the Rustler.  I had always thought that it was a cute creature, but the Spore engine did the design little justice.  I am an artist by trade, so the idea wasn't anything remarkable.  At first, I didn't even consider sharing it with anyone -- but vrt prompted me to post it on the forum.  By the next day, Zanz had implemented it into the game as the new art for Leaf Dragon.  I was shocked!  (In a good way!)

Around that same time, applications opened for a new master of Life, due to Ohmega's sudden resignation.  I wanted very badly to send an application, but I doubted myself.  I bothered vrt constantly, asking whether I should send in an application or not.  Before I knew it, Gl1tch was named the new master of Life, and I'd lost my chance. 

Some time later, trials began again to choose new masters, and this time I was determined not to let the chance slip away!  I gathered my courage and signed my name right up, applying for master of Life.  I did pretty well in the trials, if I do say so myself -- though I fell short during the PVP matches, I found myself with ample points to boost me into the final battle with Gl1tch.  However, life at home was beginning to get rather difficult for me...  I foresaw real life pulling me away from Elements.  It was a very difficult and highly disappointing decision for me to make, but I didn't want to run the very probable risk of having to step down as Life master later on, when I would be depended on and needed.  I knew that it would be better to give the title to someone who would be sure to have plenty of time to devote to the team.  I stepped out of the running, and the title remained in Gl1tch's capable hands.  My worst fears were realized, and I took a hiatus from Elements for a few months.

When I returned, War #2 had just begun.  Though I try to remain fairly neutral as a spectator of the war, I am happy to support my favorite team of all -- team Life.  I even had the honor of being asked to design the team's banner, during the propaganda phase!  Winning or losing the war event would, all in all, mean relatively little to me -- because to me, Life will always remain number one.

[XYTWO]

Nothing huge. At first I tried Fire, and came away kind of dissatisfied. There wasn't enough variation to make each game interesting to me. I decided to look at the other elements, and went with Entropy. Cue mutation deck. 

[implosion]

Back in the olden days when i was a forum noob, the first WAR!!! was getting underway. I spontaneously decided I wanted to be in it, so I went into this strange Elements chat page and looked at the list of names. In it, I recognized one xdude, the master of . So, I randomly asked him if I could be on his team. After what would have been a fight for a spot if there hadn't been some rule changes, I was on team and in the first war. Propagandized, I then discovered that is actually a lot more versatile than common misconceptions. In being forced to make decks that were 1/2 , I learned how it worked well with other elements, and on its own.

[Tseng]

Although my mark may be Aether. My element of choice would have to be Darkness    When I found Elements, (Stumble Button) I first created an account and selected Entropy  as my first deck. After I lost all my coins in several matches I decided that it wasn't for me. I then messed around with a few more elements and reset my account several times before I tried Darkness. Frustrated with my inability to gain a score past 0 I gave up and quit the game. A week or two later I picked it up again and chose Darkness  as my starting deck. Remembering the card from the Aether element  "Fractal", I built a cheap Pestal deck. The coolest thing about it was that I didn't even know about the Frac/Dev deck prior to the one I had built. So from the start it was a deck that I built.
Tried it out and it was GODLY! I was beating many matches PvP 2 without a single upgraded card. So I would have to say Darkness is my element of choice. Not because I think it's unbeatable or over powered. But, because I feel the most comfortable and knowledgeable with a deck I built completely by myself.

[~Napalm]

 I started so long ago, I don't think I can accurately remember my first element, but I'll give it a shot.

When I was young Air noob... (think Lion King music)

As best I can recall, the very first element I picked was Air. I didn't stick with it for very long though, maybe 125 score. Then I decided to reset my account and randomly element hopped, never staying on one for more than 100 score until I arrived upon Entropy. I loved mutations and ended up using an Entropy deck to forge my path to 500 score. On the way though, I won a couple of FireFly Queens from Elders and decided to revert back to Air, selecting Owl's Eye as my first weapon. That very Owl's Eye was also my first upgraded card (which I still have).

After farming for a while I smoothly transitioned in to the Original SG FG killer, the one abusing the pre-nerf sundial. I had many a good day with that deck, eventually succeeding in 12.5k score. It was at this point that my love for Elements subsided and I dissappeared for many moons. When I returned, I looked at the Rainbow deck and noticed the sundial nerf. Sold the entire thing save 4. 3x Elite Queens and 1x Fallen Druid. Everything else was sold and put into my original Fire Rush deck. 3 Minor Phoenixes were boughten immediately and thus began my love of fire. I pwnt the t50 for about a month, gaining the entirely upped deck in a matter of days, posted it on the forums, and then the summer got the best of me and I dissappeared for another 2 months.

I returned in August to find that my deck had become a lot more popular than it had been before I left, further adding to my love of Fire. Not more than 2 weeks after rejoining the Elements Community, I won my first tournament with, wouldn't you know it, an upgraded Fire Rush Trio, built from scratch by myself. In the ensuing 3 months since, I've won 3 more tournaments, all with Fire decks, and have become a rather known figure in the Elements Chatroom, probably because of my facetiousness. While my first love was Air, my heart belongs to Fire and the Mighty Phoenix forever more, with both Air and Gravity brining up a close second.

~Napalm Grenade. (Long story... too long... hope you enjoyed it )

[Bloodshadow]

My favorite element has been Darkness, is Darkness, and will always be Darkness. In every single fantasy setting, not just Elements, Darkness is my favorite element. When I chose "血影" (literally "blood shadow" in Chinese) as my online identity, I decided that Darkness would be my element because it fits the name. The reasons why I chose "Bloodshadow" as my name are a bit complicated, and go back all the way to 2005, so I don't want to write it all down again.

In Elements, Darkness uses the powers of my opponent against him. It has the most advantage out of all the elements, because my opponent loses something and I gain something at the same time. No other element can do that, so Darkness is the element for me.

I was the first Master of Darkness, and I will try to get back the title I lost... as soon as I have time. Suffice to say that I was not happy when I was at the last stage of the Trial, and my parents suddenly decided to take away most of my allowed time on the internet. Just wait till I get accepted into a good university...

[Memorystick]

Not sure why, but for some reason I chose gravity as my starting element. After playing with it for a while, I decided I liked the oty and its devour ability- so I started looking through the other elements for stuff that would go with it, and made a rainbow (druidic staff, aflatoxin, boneyard, and some other stuff, can't remember exactly what), then went off to play other games, with two upgraded cards (a quantum tower and an oty X3). Quite some time later, I came back, sorta- only activity was rolling the oracle for some time (and I made a couple other accounts, mainly because I thought it would be fun to try out other elements).

For my first new account, while I can't remember exactly what I started with (time, I think), I had much more success (using a scarabtal) than my original (which, at the time, was a cumbersome mummy/scarab deck), while my second account (after a lot of failing- was at -1K at one point) had a fun life/entropy mutation deck with quantum pillars- and then I came to the forums. When I came to the forums, I was getting back into elements more seriously, and, upon joining the War event, I decided to make my most successful account my primary one, and while I have used a variety of decks (from pestal to SS/miracle to an immo rush to blessed pegs), oty and scarab remain my prefered creatures, because I <3 devour. For that reason, I have a slight preference for and , even though I like and respect all elements.

[TheonlyrealBeef]

I've always loved to be the evil person in games, I find it funny to conquer the world, plunge it into darkness blah, blah, and Darkness fits it entirely. It's not that I'm an evil person though, I wouldn't harm others unless I have a reason to (I'm very vengeful). When I started with elements I was a noob at the game (duh), my very first choice was Darkness, because of the above-mentioned reasons. I found my deck too slow and started using a shrieker rush, back then I was quite impatient though and kept selling everything whenever I wanted a different deck. I bought a shrieker rush, was slowly upgrading it, and sold it for the SGbow, I slowly upgraded it, wasn't satisfied. I played fgs right after the sundial nerf it seems, before the Hourglasses costed 4 to play (yes they costed 3 first). And then I sold that, bought the other etcetera, etcetera untill I stopped playing and began playing WoW. I shall leave away the drama behind it but I stopped abruptly and went back to playing elements, I found the forums and renewed determination to be able to farm fgs. By then Time was my most used element, Eternity and Anubis were great cards in a timebow, and I completely forgot about Darkness.

But when it gets right down to it, the pull of Darkness is irresistable, as soon as I had some spare electrum I started building Darkness decks that worked, since the element Time on itself, is in my opinion just plain bad. And when war came I felt like joining Darkness above all. Darkness is balanced, and capable of almost anything, except rushing and mass creature control. In the end, Darkness prevails over all.....

When the time comes, I'd love to compete in the Darkness trials to become master. I might not be the best deckbuilder, but my willpower is unbreakable.

[ddevans96]

When I fist started playing back in September or so, I was studying rivers and lakes around my neighborhood, and in my state in general. I knew how versatile water is in real life, and I was hoping that was true for the game.

Sadly, at that time it wasn't, at least not in a mono. So I added in some cards from aether. Stars were another thing I was studying, and the deck wasn't all that bad either. However, school got in my way and I left the game, not to come back until the spring.

When I began to play again, I realized that my deck was outdated because the landscape had changed so much. I modified it a little, but it just wasn't what I wanted.

Then I joined the forums - and found this: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5095.msg56842.html. I fell in love with how fun it was, and was hoping to upgraded it, replacing the PUs with the fairly new fractal card as I did.

However, I decided to build a mono-aether I had found on the forums - The Essential Halfblood farmer - and fell in love with it too. I made some modifications to it, and beat my first false god with a very lucky draw. Now I knew that aether was my favorite element.

The end

[Klaymore]

After I had started playing Elements for like a couple days, a certain type of game had struck me...
While playing an opponent using  , the "rules of the games" were kinda changed by his cards ! By that I mean a situation in which for example my opponent had hourglasses on the board: I would still only draw a single card per turn but him 3, 4 .. ?! Facing a fueled Eternity: I would not be able to draw new cards at all?! Theses advantages appeared as just too nice to me, that seemed like crazy and I wanted that ability in my own deck 
On a different level, the ability to control  time is something that had always been special in my imagination... Being able to visit or change the past, make good times last longer, visit the future ... so many amazing possibilities ! That would definitely be the super power I would choose if I had the choice.
And i definitely think that  gameplay really fits that theme with cards such as rewind, precog, hourglass... luv' them 

My second favorite is without hesitation  : my first nymph was  and I immediately loved it and played it in my FG-Rainbows as an awesome alternative to the FFQ, proovin to be way better for some matchups !
Being recruted by Perv as member of Team  also made this elements grow on me and while playing it way more now I came to like it more and more