Deckbuilding 101: From Noob to False God Slayer

[WarFlames]

My favourite element is Aether becuase i used darkness becuase i liked it, i was farming lvl 3 and i kept losing becuase of ice shield and freeze and on aether your cards are invincible so all that freeze and poison stuff cant get me

[dekskose]

if u ask me the gravity deck is pretty usefull too but i would replace the 2 gravity pull or at least one of them for an oty

[humptydumper]

hi i just started nd i used your water deck. i beat a top 50 person and wo trident so i was wondering if it would be wise to add saphire pillars

[ufcfan]

I am going to say no for now, until somebody with more experience answers your question.  Adding more pillars will throw off your deck at this point.  If your starting hand has sapphire pillars and the trident does not appear quickly you have wasted those cards.  Don't sell it now, just hang onto it, but not in your deck.

[jmizzle7]

If you win rare cards or earn more money, by all means, change your deck to something that performs better or suits your play style more. These decks are beginning strategies meant to help you earn electrum toward building an anti-false god deck.

[Jangoo]

hi i just started nd i used your water deck. i beat a top 50 person and wo trident so i was wondering if it would be wise to add saphire pillars

Hey Humpty. Congratz on that Trident!

I think you meant "add earth pillars" to use the skill of Trident right?

Trident is probably the least useful weapon which doesn't mean that you should sell it by any means. If you still want to test that (fun) weapon you could try two things:

1. Change your mark to "earth" (recommended)
You will generate 1 earth-quant per turn and could use Trident every 3 turns this way.
Since you may not draw Trident early enough this would still be a waste, so adding 1 or 2 cheap earth-cards would be a good idea: Earthquake, Basilisk Blood or Enchant artifact (for a shield, pillars or the Trident) are handy for this.

2. Make a "duo-deck" with water and earth (kind of odd)
This would imply that you actually do add several earth-pillars and several earth cards and take out some of your water-equipment, so you would take a huge step away from Jmizzles rush-deck and create a completely new deck.
Since water and earth don't exactly synergize all that well this would just make your deck more shaky but if you feel that you have the electrum coins to try it, why not give it a go?

[dekskose]

hi i just started nd i used your water deck. i beat a top 50 person and wo trident so i was wondering if it would be wise to add saphire pillars

Hey Humpty. Congratz on that Trident!

I think you meant "add earth pillars" to use the skill of Trident right?

Trident is probably the least useful weapon which doesn't mean that you should sell it by any means. If you still want to test that (fun) weapon you could try two things:

1. Change your mark to "earth" (recommended)
You will generate 1 earth-quant per turn and could use Trident every 3 turns this way.
Since you may not draw Trident early enough this would still be a waste, so adding 1 or 2 cheap earth-cards would be a good idea: Earthquake, Basilisk Blood or Enchant artifact (for a shield, pillars or the Trident) are handy for this.

2. Make a "duo-deck" with water and earth (kind of odd)
This would imply that you actually do add several earth-pillars and several earth cards and take out some of your water-equipment, so you would take a huge step away from Jmizzles rush-deck and create a completely new deck.
Since water and earth don't exactly synergize all that well this would just make your deck more shaky but if you feel that you have the electrum coins to try it, why not give it a go?

ähm dont give electrums for that deck try it out on trainer

[Jangoo]

ähm dont give electrums for that deck try it out on trainer

Also see RULE # 1 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,3369.0.html) in this respect. 

[Delreich]

I think you meant "add earth pillars" to use the skill of Trident right?

I think he meant what he wrote, implying that the Trident would take the place of the Dagger. The water deck is a Death/Water duo, with the water bits fuelled by mark alone, so neither of your suggestions would work without completely changing the deck.

Getting the Trident out with just the mark is probably not going to happen very often. I'd leave it in the stash, as it's not all that useful without earth and doesn't do much more damage than the Dagger anyway. Save it for some other deck.

[Jangoo]

Damnit, what a fail. I didn't even review the deck again. 

I must have still had some older version in mind where the water deck was a straight forward mono-water rush.
But yeah, in that case:
Leave the Trident in the garage until you make a funny deck with it some day.

[taikanatur]

Awesome guide. The deck list to import them would be pretty neat ^^.

Also, it would be nice to know which one is more recomended. I tried a variation of the Graboid/Shrieker and its REALLY kick ass. Its important to notice that we should change our mark to time ASAP, for a much better perfomance ^^.

[jmizzle7]

Awesome guide. The deck list to import them would be pretty neat ^^.

Also, it would be nice to know which one is more recomended. I tried a variation of the Graboid/Shrieker and its REALLY kick ass. Its important to notice that we should change our mark to time ASAP, for a much better perfomance ^^.

It is noted. Big, bright yellow letters. I have already addressed the request for deck recommendations in this discussion. I don't want to raise one deck above another for the sole reason that the purpose of this guide is to show new players that there is no wrong element, and that a good deck can be made from any of the twelve starter decks.