9th Trials - Challenger's Entrance

[Zawadx]

TIME TO ENTER THE TRIALS
HAS RUN OUT



Please make sure you've read the Rules very carefully. Also, here are the Phase 1 Rules.
To join these Trials, post in this thread a single post containing the following information:

Spoiler for Requirements:

-Evidence of Score Requirement
-Evidence of Established Account Requirement

Spoiler for Phase 1:

Spoiler for Task 1:

-Name of Task
-Evidence of completion

Spoiler for Task 2:

-Name of Task
-Evidence of completion

Spoiler for Task 3:

-Name of Task
-Evidence of completion

Spoiler for War/Brawl Bonus:

-Evidence of participation in the last war/brawl with the element you were a member of.
-If you were a General/Boss, evidence of your General-ship/Boss-ship

Spoiler for Loyalty Bonus:

-Tell us how many times you have participated in Trials for this element before
-Give us evidence of your participation in each of those trials

Remember, the Requirements to Challenge are:

• 50,000+ score in Elements
• 200+ forum posts
• Joined the forums no less than 3 months ago (at the time of signing up)
• Participation in at least three separate PVP Events (Leagues, War, Weekly Tournaments, etc.)

A player may participate in Trials without meeting the 200 post and 50,000 score requirements if they are able to provide evidence of a significant PVP achievement. Examples of sufficient achievements include:

• Winning a Weekly Tournament
• Finishing in the Top 3 in Leagues or other forum PVP Events
• Finishing on the winning War team

Note: In the event more there are more than four applicants (including the defending master) for one element, priority will be given first to players with the higher Phase 1 scores and second to a combination of score/post count.

Challengers:

• Zawadx

Master deuce22 of is defending.

[deuce22]

I will be defending. And I will not be returning as a WM.

Spoiler for Phase 1:

Returning Master

Spoiler for War/Brawl bonus:

I did not participate last war or brawl, thus no bonus

Spoiler for Loyalty bonus:

I have won the last 4 aether trials (Icons to the left as evidence)

[hainkarga]

I have started a new job at the largest software company in the country. Busy schedule for, at least, a few more months. I highly doubt i can join trials which makes me feel sad. Best of luck to all challengers, especially aether ones.

[DANIEELA]

Zawadx?

[Zawadx]

Zawadx?

Yes I will challenge; just need to get some stuff sorted out with Physsi.

Spoiler for Requirements:

War 8 Winner, Team Fire. (More than 3 months ago, exempts me from post and score).
[url=http://elementscommunity.org/forum/heir-of-the-false-gods/heir-of-the-false-gods-round-11-schedule-and-match-results-thread/]HotFGs
WC

Spoiler for Phase 1:

Spoiler for Waging War (Against the False Gods):

vs Ferox

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 8pu

Ferox can be a pretty scary FG, with her fast damage capable of beating you down within a couple of turns. However, she has absolutely no control, and so dims work wonders as an effective counter. Ferox can easily add 15+ to her damage total within a turn, so start a dim chain if she's about 17 HP away from lethal damage on board. Keeping your dim chain intact, all you have to do is fractal Giant Frogs for the win! If she draws into a lot of bonds early while you draw your dims late, you can Fractal her dragons for larger damage output to close the game. While it has a lower winrate than the oracle counter, it is a lot faster and definitely more fun!

Spoiler for Taking Up Arms:

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5f0 5f0 5f6 5f6 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 61o 61o 61o 61o 61p 61p 61p 61p 61p 61p 61q 61q 61q 61r 61r 8pm

To get to this deck, simply sell the extra cards from starter deck and buy the required cards from Bazaar. You should even have 5 electrum left over at the end!

Aether and Fire are two elements which go really well together, as you can see from this fun immorush. Immolate Sparks to generate quanta for Lava Golems, and grow them with the continuous stream of quanta from your mark. Save your deflags and lightnings for serious threats, such as Otyughs and Dimensional Shields. With a good hand, this deck can easily rush down any of the Elders with their slow setup. And if you want, you can take it for a spin in PvP1 too! There are very few counters to a turn one golem, even from the best PvP1 Decks.

This deck can't grind anything higher than PvP 1 or AI3, but your steady stream of income will soon allow you to build Psiontal for better grinding. It ends its games pretty fast, making the grind much more fun and memorable. Others might tell you Aether is a slow element, but trust me, it is amongst the most fun!

Spoiler for Developing War Tactics:

Ghosts may only attack teams which their team is playing against this round. Ghost battles are a Best of 1.
All Teams must post the teams their ghosts will be attacking in this thread within two days of posting the round.
Ghosts' decks and the decks to face Ghosts are to be built using cards in the vault at the beginning of the round. Ghosts may not use any upgrades, but their opponents may use up to six upgrades. These decks must be posted in the team's secret sections before deckbuilding ends.
If a Ghost beats their opponent, the opponent's team will use three less upgrades in their match against the Ghost's team. If the teams play multiple times. the exact match must be per-specified. The three upgrades should be removed at the start of every game, and may be changed from game to game. (Note that removing an upgrade means using an unupgraded version of an upped card, NOT removing an upped card from the deck.)
Ghost matches must be completed before Deckbuilding ends. Ghosts may not be subbed, but their enemy team may use any player to face a Ghost. If a Ghost match doesn't happen within the timeframe, victory is awarded to the more active participant.

Restless Spirits is an event card which provides a strong advantage to weaker teams, but not freely! It rewards able teams which might've had a few unlucky rounds with a chance for comeback. It is a delicate EC, best suited in Mid-war around rounds 5-7. Then a couple of stragglers will get 3-4 Ghosts, the middle teams will get 1-2 and the top teams will probably get none. It's up to the teams to use it to their best advantage.

If I were at the top with this Event card, I would be on my guard. At first place we probably wouldn't have any fallen players, so our main concern would be defending against the Ghost onslaught. I would work on mindgating possible Ghost decks from all my opponents from the start of deckbuilding, trying to counter those as well as develop decks for normal games. I'd also think of decks which work with less upgrades for matches. Hopefully my superior vault at the point would pull through.

If I were on a team in danger of elimination, I would focus my ghosts to my survival. Ghosts would probably be alternately prioritized from least threatening matchup to most threatening to least threatening and so on. We want to ensure that we have enough wins to survive, and to go on to win. This EC should involve prioritizing playing to win rather than playing not to lose.

Spoiler for War/Brawl Bonus:

See awards; War 1st Place: +5 Bonus points.

Spoiler for Loyalty Bonus:

8th Trials; proof of participation
+1 bonus point.

For information regarding TrO participation in Trials, please read this post.

Phase 1 Status: Complete.

Best of luck deuce and all other challengers!

[Avenger]

Heh, i would apply but i'm too lazy for the Phase 1 stuff. Anyway, I look forward to see the new overlord