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.

[worldwideweb3]

Phase 1
Note that I posted before spike, so I'm more enthusiastic

Relating to Bas' question, as im unable to take part in war, kuro will lead time, given i win.

Spoiler for MeowMeowcat:

What element/card is the most synergistic with Time? (Excluding Darkness/Nightmare for obvious reasons)

Ok, lets look at possible synergies.
 : mitosis sor, healing carapace + dials eternity, adrenavu
 : mainly chaos power, possibly discord/pande splashed but not really a proper synergy, imo
 : skeleton rt, there's a fun, reasonable effective deck by S2, will link if required. mummy rt. sundial+poison
 : momentum dunes. dials could possibly be used in catatitans.
 : quicksand+rt, graboid.
 : no real synergy, except fire gives pc, good cc, cheap attacker (mp), if needed. again, not a proper synergy.
 : Tears works well, but that's about it.
 : pdials. luci hope. blessed deja's.
 : UG dials
 : cloak, LS, nm
 : ghostal, lightning gives cheap cc.

So, overall i think earth or light.

Spoiler for basman+duke:

For all candidates:
*) Aside of its lack of reliable PC (Hourglass baiting may not work against human opponents ^^;), do you think Time has any noteworthy problems?


For WWW3 (W6? ) only
*) If you were to become the Ninth Master of Time, will you lead Time to War and Brawl?

Rareless? possibly, as spike said, it needs a midhitter. Atm, anubis is too slow and UP to play. While gotp are extremely good, they are easy to kill, so another hitter will be nice.

If you win Trials, will you lead your team into the upcoming war?

If not, please explain why.

I will be unable to lead time in war due to being war master. However, i'll lead in brawl. 

Spoiler for will:

What element do you hate the most and why?

I do not hate any element, but the one strongest one against time is aether, so when playing with time, i would hate to face aether.

Spoiler for dragons:

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

Time is simply not as powerful as some of the stronger elements in war rules.

Spoiler for nae/d2d:

I believe brawl is just a non-pvp war. I do believe masters should represent their elements.

Spoiler for elk:

In the Element Drafting Phase of World Championships this year (i.e. Phase 2), I consistently gave my opponents time and gravity when I was player A, whereas most of the playerbase (as far as I heard) gave their opponents life and gravity. 

Do you believe that I personally underestimated the usefulness of Time, or do you believe that the Phase 2 rules made Time less useful than it is in general?

It depends on what other elements you gave but i believe you underestimated time. Time is able to form strong monos, duos and trios, like in my WC 3rd place match against zawa, time and light were the ones i finished first.  Also, in phase 2, i used time in 5/6 of my matches. So, im afraid i have to say you underestimated time's usefulness.

Spoiler for zso:

Question to all wannabe  masters:
How would you add permanent control to  ? Suggest a thematically fitting card.

Admittedly, i'm no good at creating card, shown by my lack of presence in CIA. However, out of two spike posted, i like the second one. The first has no effect on dims which hard counters time.

Spoiler for higu:

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?

In all honesty, i cant really answer first two questions. In reply to third question, i'll do everything possible to showcase time's strength.I'll also use more decks with time cards in pvp events.

[SpikeSpiegel]

Reserved.

Note that I posted before spike, so I'm more enthusiastic

Nope. Spike's just working 12 hours/day...

 

[Solaris]

What element/card is the most synergistic with Time? (Excluding Darkness/Nightmare for obvious reasons)

[MyNameIsJoey]

KURO FOR PRESIDENT

[SpikeSpiegel]

What element/card is the most synergistic with Time? (Excluding Darkness/Nightmare for obvious reasons)

Time has sinergies with all elements. Hourglass/precog can speed up every other element, sundial fits perfectly with stalls, poison decks, UG decks, etc..., dune scorpions need buff cards like chaos power, blessing, momentum or SoW, and so on.

Said that, having to choose an element, I'd say  ; ghostal showed up, during last wars, to be one the best duo around.

 

[worldwideweb3]

What element/card is the most synergistic with Time? (Excluding Darkness/Nightmare for obvious reasons)

Ok, lets look at possible synergies.
 : mitosis sor, healing carapace + dials eternity, adrenavu
 : mainly chaos power, possibly discord/pande splashed but not really a proper synergy, imo
 : skeleton rt, there's a fun, reasonable effective deck by S2, will link if required. mummy rt. sundial+poison
 : momentum dunes. dials could possibly be used in catatitans.
 : quicksand+rt, graboid.
 : no real synergy, except fire gives pc, good cc, cheap attacker (mp), if needed. again, not a proper synergy.
 : Tears works well, but that's about it.
 : pdials. luci hope. blessed deja's.
 : UG dials
 : cloak, LS, nm
 : ghostal, lightning gives cheap cc.

So, overall i think earth or light.

@spike, 12 hours/day working, 7/8 hours sleep, 4/5 hours left out of which you'll probably use a few for other stuff. All in all, not enough time for war 

[Zso_Zso]

@spike, 12 hours/day working, 7/8 hours sleep, 4/5 hours left out of which you'll probably use a few for other stuff. All in all, not enough time for war 

OTOH, worldwideweb supposed to work 24/7 

PS: to make my post on-topic:

Question to all wannabe  masters:
How would you add permanent control to  ? Suggest a thematically fitting card.

[SpikeSpiegel]

@spike, 12 hours/day working, 7/8 hours sleep, 4/5 hours left out of which you'll probably use a few for other stuff. All in all, not enough time for war 

Last war I had less spare and we placed 3rd...

Question to all wannabe  masters:
How would you add permanent control to  ? Suggest a thematically fitting card.

A softcore PC. Something that would destroy a permanent over time or that would make a permanent not usable/useless for a certain amount of time.

For the first time, I'd think something related to corrosion of time, for the second idea I'd go for a sort of "time bubble".

Spoiler for Time PC ideas:

[Basman-1453]

For all candidates:
*) Aside of its lack of reliable PC (Hourglass baiting may not work against human opponents ^^;), do you think Time has any noteworthy problems?

For Spike only
*) If I'm reading the result of the Eighth War correctly, you spent so few points to assembly your team, yet Time ended up the third. Was there any secret recipe on such an efficient war machine?
*) I know it's no CIA, but~
**) Rust: Rounded up or rounded down? Also, will upped Sundials be destroyed immediately?
**) Za warudo: This has nothing relevant with the card mechanism (how it works is intuitive enough for me), but do you happen to be a fans of JoJo or Touhou?

For WWW3 (W6? ) only
*) If you were to become the Ninth Master of Time, will you lead Time to War and Brawl?

[SpikeSpiegel]

For all candidates:
*) Aside of its lack of reliable PC (Hourglass baiting may not work against human opponents ^^;), do you think Time has any noteworthy problems?

This is a nice question. It's not actually a "big problem", but may deserve a mid hitter creature (an airborne one would be perfect...); moreover, i'd move fate egg to entropy...

For Spike only
*) If I'm reading the result of the Eighth War correctly, you spent so few points to assembly your team, yet Time ended up the third. Was there any secret recipe on such an efficient war machine?
*) I know it's no CIA, but~
**) Rust: Rounded up or rounded down? Also, will upped Sundials be destroyed immediately?
**) Za warudo: This has nothing relevant with the card mechanism (how it works is intuitive enough for me), but do you happen to be a fans of JoJo or Touhou?

I've already explained several times what was my strategy during last war draft; the first turn the number of veterans was large, so it was obvious to manage to obtain a "strong players" using just one card. Kuro was a must, since he's a vet, he's strong and a Master-level user.

In second turn, I made the best "steal-of-the-draft"; i was one of few to know the potential of pwconfirm, since he was pretty "new" to the community, but he has a >1 million score account. Moreover, I faced him few times in tournaments and I saw how skilled he was.

Danieela was already in my first turn list, and i've been lucky to hire her. Propheon and furk were a bet, but once you have a some good players like Kuro, pw and Dani, the other will follow the team.


*Rounded...up? To avoid instant shatter we can add 1 turn as min. limit...

**

Of course...

[SpikeSpiegel]

I'm gonna answer here questions from THIS topic...

Let's begin!

What element do you hate the most and why?

I don't hate...nothing. The element I fear the most is probably  , because of immortal creatures, dim shield, fractal, etc... It looks like this element was made to hard counter ...(sigh*)

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?

Outside the game, time is the one of the most important thing in life; you've to learn (ASAP) to manage it to have...enough time! To do stuff at work or to study, to have spare time to rest, to see friends, partners, etc...
We're all subjected to the passing of time, after all...


In game,  is recognized as the element that most suits me; I'm not so dashing to be a fire user, nor so obscure to use darkness, etc...
I'd like to have control, to speed up or to slow down as I wish; my dream is to lead to win war...

If you win Trials, will you lead your team into the upcoming war?

If not, please explain why.

If so, please describe your leadership style and how you will organize and motivate your team members.

Of course, yes. But i don't want to give too many details about organization and motivation of my team; I just say: I promise you we'll have FUN!

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

If your element has won a war, what makes you think YOU can do it again?

With old rules, some elements were more advantaged... /me looks at 

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

I loved brawl and I won one; the leader was krzy, but during his honeymoon I took the lead...so yes, I guess I'd be a nice boss in brawl. Unfortunately, the last one happened during a period of time when I was too busy with work and unable to join it...

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

I think Masters should be proud of the chance to represent their elements in Brawl...