9th Trials - Phase 3: Community Vote

[Zawadx]

Phase 3 - Community Vote

It's time to vote for your favorite Master candidate!  Every community member has one vote. You can change your vote at any time as long as there is still time on the clock.

Vote based on who you think would make the best Master of that element. Do not vote based on who is the best player or who you know personally. Try to pick someone who you think would help the community the most as THE representative for their element.  If you do not have any preference for who should be Master, or cannot decide between the candidates, please select the "None Worthy" option. 

To help you make the best decision possible, feel free to ask the candidates questions.  Both challengers and defending Masters ought to answer the questions in this thread to help the voters make the best possible choice.  Please put all your answers in a single post (employing spoiler tags is recommended).  Also, challengers should include in that post a link to your Phase 1 submission post.


Questions and answers may begin now that this topic is posted.
Voting will begin when the polls are up at the official start of Phase 3.
Phase 3 ends when poll expires.

[SpikeSpiegel]

Question for both: aside holy light that is CC card only vs  / , what kind of CC card you would add to , having the opportunity of doing it? And why?

[Zso_Zso]

Phase-1 submission

Spoiler for SpikeSpiegel:

Question for both: aside holy light that is CC card only vs  / , what kind of CC card you would add to , having the opportunity of doing it? And why?

Answer
I would add a card called "Echelon Mirror", which would be a permanent with the ability to concentrate all light emitted from any creatures to a selected opponent creature (once per turn) which would do as much damage as the total number of light emitting creatures on the field of the owner. It's play cost would be 5 quanta, and ability cost 2|1  (unupped 2, upped 1).

Spoiler for CCCombobreaker:

Does the vault feel emptier with no blessings or no holy lights?

Answer:
Definitely! Blessing are very useful for a number of decks, combine them with dune-scorps, chargers, psions or even just for protecting some key creatures such as entropy nymph. Holy lights are situational, but when you know you are facing death or darkness opponents, then they become the best possible CC card in the entire elements universe, so they always have space in a War vault.

From the global question thread:

Spoiler for willng3:

What element do you hate the most and why?

Answer:
Hate ? There is no hate. What I fear the most is aether as an opponent (fractal+dims+psions), but I do not hate it, in fact I love to use it in a duo with  .

Spoiler for Higurashi:

What does your element represent and mean to you outside of the gameplay? What has it done for you, and what would you do for it as a Master?

Answer:
  is the source of all power needed for our lives, almost all energy sources used by mankind originate from sun-light: wind, hydro, tidal, all fossil fuels are just stored energy from photosynthesis millions of years ago, the only exceptions are nuclear and geothermal.
I am a strong advocate of solar-power. Light powers my house and even my car and my daughter's car as you can see in the photo in the following post (and the other photo of the second electric car in the family):
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,48871.msg1064993.html#msg1064993
https://goo.gl/photos/3Rz6B9MzTQUwcHyf9
So  does a lot for me, as for what I can do for it ? I'll work hard to prove its strength in the next war.

Spoiler for dragonsdemesne:

If your element has never won a war, why do you think that is?  (underpowered elements, bad generals/team, bad rng, etc)

Answer:
  is lacking control:  PC and universally applicable CC; difficult to rush with it in mostly unupped meta its one main strength is stalling power. In the war meta this is a problem, because stall decks need more cards than other deck types, so a shrinking vault hurts stall decks the most, not to mention predictability, i.e. easy to mind-gate.

Spoiler for brawl:

brawl, where do you stand on it and do you think you will be able to be a brawl boss?

Good question, might I add: Do you think masters should represent their elements in Brawl?

Answer:
Let me answer the above two related questions together: I have participated in one brawl (#2) where I put a lot of effort into it but came away with a rather negative experience, therefore I have stayed away from the event ever since. It is simply not my kind of event, I prefer PvP events.  Since brawl has only 5 or 6 teams, not all masters can represent their elements anyway, and I do not think it is necessary to tie that event to elements and their masters.

[theelkspeaks]

To CrockettRocket:

Many of your Phase 2 decks were illegal.  Do you feel this should or shouldn't weigh on your future performance as a Master, and why or why not?

[CCCombobreaker]

Does the vault feel emptier with no blessings or no holy lights?

[Zso_Zso]

Answered all questions so far. However, I am soon leaving for a 2 week road-trip, so my network access will be sporadic, therefore count on slower response time from me. I will try to login at least once a day, though.

[andretimpa]

dat poll

[Zso_Zso]

Thanks to everyone for the vote of confidence!