Look all I'm asking is that if updates come through incremental change, where did Elements come from in the first place?
Well if Zanzarino made the game, then what made Zanzarino?
Zanzarino made the game from nothing! He is all powerful and beyond time and space, he doesn't need a beginning. You don't believe in that sort of stuff, so what was there before the beginning?
Well, a million abominations typing on a million keyboards will eventually recreate the great works of Zhakspeer. Maybe there were random bits of code flying through the aether, and they came together to make a barely functioning game. Then, after a while, the game started evolving to better suit the needs of the players.
Blasphemy. When Zanzarino returns, he will take up the true believers and put them into a new game. One that's more balanced, and has lots of new cards. And you'll be stuck in this crappy world.
This crappy world is all we have right now. We might as well try to make the most of it.