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Please make sure you've read the Rules (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/trials/12th-trials-rules/) very carefully. Also, here are the Phase 1 Rules (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/trials/12th-trials-phase-1-proving-your-worthiness/) for information on Phase 1 tasks.

To join these Trials, post in this thread a single post containing the following information:

- Evidence of Score Requirement
- Evidence of Established Account Requirement
- Evidence of PvP Event Participation
OR
- Evidence of PvP Event Achievement

-Name of Task
-Evidence of completion

-Evidence of participation/WMing last war
-If you were a General, and were in the same War team as the element you are trialing for, evidence of your General-ship

-Evidence of participation/BMing/Voter's Panel position last brawl
-If you were a Boss, evidence of your Boss-ship

-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

You can find more information on the Phase 1 tasks in the Phase 1 Rules (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/trials/12th-trials-phase-1-proving-your-worthiness/). Remember, the Requirements to Challenge are:

Any ONE from:

Winning a Weekly Tournament
A top 3 finish in either of the PVP Leagues
A top 3 finish in a PVP event
Finishing on 1 of the top 3 War teams
Becoming a Master of any Element

OR ALL of the following:

30,000+ score in Elements
10+ forum posts
Joined the forums no less than 3 weeks ago (at the time of signing up)
Participation in at least three separate PVP Events (Leagues, War, Weekly Tournaments, etc.)

Note: In the event more there are more than four challengers 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:

Master Physsion of :darkness has his decision pending.

Count me in. Loyalty bonus and requirements can be found in the three Darkness icons there <=.
War bonus: I was a part of team Aether last war: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/war/war-11-rosters/

The Militant

Weekly Tournament - Slow and Steady - Unupgraded

Special rules:

Upgraded cards, shards and nymphs are banned.
Quanta generating spells are banned.
Creatures with more attack than quanta cost are banned.
Quantum Pillar, Graboid, Lycanthrope, Discord, Sanctuary, Nymph's Tears and Flying Weapon are banned.
At most 40% of your deck's cards are allowed to be pillars/pendulums/mark cards.
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For starters, the tournament is unupgraded, with shards and nymphs banned. This is pretty standard for a tournament and suits the theme really well. Banning creatures with more attack than quanta cost along with quanta generating spells -Nova and Immolation- significantly slows down the pace of the tournament, with pillar/pendulum restrictions adding to that to prevent dragon rushes. Graboid and Lycanthrope are cheats that bypass the attack > quanta cost rule with their abilities. Flying Weapon is in a similar position. Sanctuary and Quantum Pillar bans should significantly weaken stalls.

With the low amount of pillars/pendulums/mark cards, this is a natural meta for slower decks including stalls. However, with Sanctuary and Quantum Pillars banned, there is no cheap way for stalls to defend themselves against denial. Abomination, Phoenix and Dragons are solid attackers and control cards like Reverse Time and Antimatter will likely be popular to counter these threats. However, with the low amount of quanta generation, a true rush is almost impossible to accomplish. The key is to bypass the pillar quota with creatures like Devourers.
Dimensional Shield is worth mentioning as allowed, causing concern for most non-Darkness elements.

Now, since the task asked for advantages for Darkness, I went overboard by making Devourers ridiculously overpowered in this meta. Just having six of them will halve the already slow speed of any deck using only pillars/pendulums/marks for quanta. And that is not counting the possible use of Earthquake, Fractal or Mitosis. To use this for an actual tournament, one would likely want to ban Devourer, Earthquake and Trident.

All of the following decks should work great in this meta, ordered by preference. If you wanted just one deck, take the first.

Just generally awesome. Slightly slow in setup, which may give decks with quanta generating creatures an opening. Faster denial decks are its main weakness in this meta.