Deckbuilding 101: From Noob to Platinum Slayer

[Chapuz]

This tutorial is a remake of the original one created by jmizzle7 in 2009.

Building Your First Deck

Hey there! If you are a new player in need of some deck building advice or a frustrated player looking for improvement, look no further. I will show you how to transform a starter deck into a solid Level 3 and PvP killer of every element so you can build a deck to take on the False Gods.

Choose your element: Aether Air Darkness Death Earth Entropy Fire Gravity Life Light Time Water

Your goal should be to make the most reliable deck for the least amount of electrum in the least amount of time. Mono decks (decks that contain cards of only 1 element) are the best for new players to get into the game, as they are the easiest to play with. As you play, you will get into many other strategies that involve cards of different elements. This tutorial will lead you to your first reliable Level 3 and PvP grinder of each element, so then you can try other strategies and go grinding in Arena, Half Bloods and False Gods. Between all the starter decks, the Darkness one is sold much higher than the others. That offers the possibility to make mono deck of every element faster and easier starting with Darkness than starting with each respective element. That's why we are going to start with the Darkness starter deck and make a deck of any element we want starting from that one. Spoiler for Our starter deck:

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Aether element for farming Half Bloods and PvP. Here's the strategy and the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Play your creatures whenever you can, play your shields when things get scary. The shields will provide you up to 18 turns without being damaged!
How to build it
First of all, start selling the cards that don't belong to the desired deck, until you get this deck:

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 13 Aether pillars, 1 Dimensional Shield and 4 Immortals. Add those to your deck.
Sell your Spark, Lightning, Parallel Universe, Drain Lives, Steals, Dagger and 8 Obsidian pillars to buy 3 Dimensional Shields and 2 Phase Dragons.

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While getting your quest rewards and playing against the different AI Levels, you will gain enough  to buy the remaining cards.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Half Bloods and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena Levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Air element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the strategy and the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
The strategy is simple: Play the dragons as soon as you can. If you think your opponent has Steals or Deflagrations, save the Unstable Gasses and play them all together in the end of the game to have a chance of letting him waste them in your pillars.
If your opponent has healing, play the UGs but ignite them all together in the end of the game for a final big hit.
How to build it
As soon as you start, start selling and buying cards until you get this deck:

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Sell your Black Dragon, Devourers, Parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall, in order to buy 18 Air pillars and 5 Unstable Gas. Add those to your deck.
Sell all your Aether cards and all the remaining Darkness cards except 3 Obsidian Pillars (your deck should have 30 cards by now), and buy 1 Unstable Gas and 3 Azure Dragons.
Replace them for your last 3 Obsidian Pillars and Dagger, and you are done.

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While getting your quest rewards and playing against the different AI Levels, you will gain enough  yo buy the remaining cards.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena Levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Darkness element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Devourers are super effective (and annoying for your opponent) when they are played early, Drain Life works to kill dangerous creatures or just to hit your opponent while healing. The later you play them, the better! Use steals for good shields or another permanents useful for your opponent.

How to build it
Before you start, sell all the aether cards and Parasites to buy 2 Black Dragons and a Devourer. You shall end with this deck:

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While playing AIs and getting your quest rewards, you will get the missing cards for the complete deck.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Death element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
This deck is one of the most effective unupped rushes. The strategy is simple: Play whatever you can as soon as possible. If you can wait for 1 turn to play a Dragon instead of playing a mummy a turn earlier, wait that turn!
How to build it
Before you start, start buying and selling cards. You will end with the whole deck before playing a single game!

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 14 Death pillars, 6 Poisons and 6 Mummies. Put them in your deck.
Sell all your remaining Darkness and Aether cards and buy 4 Bone Dragons. Replace them for your Quantum Pillars and Dagger.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Earth element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Play your creatures whenever you can. Use Borrow wisely when you think your opponent can kill your Shriekers!
How to build it
Before you start, start selling and buying cards until you get this deck:

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 17 Earth Pillars and 5 Graboids. Add them to your deck.
Sell all your Aether cards and your remaining Darkness cards except 4 Obsidian Pillars, and buy 1 Graboid and 6 Shriekers. Add them to your deck and take out your remaining Obsidian and Quantum pillars.

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You will be able to replace the Dagger for a Short Sword after beating Level 0.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Entropy element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Play your creatures as soon as you can. Use the Maxwell Demons to eat the ones you can!
How to build it
Before you start, sell and buy cards until you reach this deck:

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 17 Amathist pillars, 6 Abominations and 2 Maxwell's Demons. Add them to your deck.
Sell all your Aether cards and your remaining darkness cards except for 1 Obsidian pillar and buy 4 Purple Dragons. Replace them for your Obsidian and Quantum pillars.

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While playing against the different AIs and getting your quest rewards, you will get the 2 dragons you need to finish the deck.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Fire element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
This deck is very effective. It can work as a pure Rush if you use the Fire Bolts in your opponent (the later the better) or as a control deck if you decide to use the bolts in your opponent's creatures.

How to build it
Before you start, start selling and buying cards until you reach this deck:

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 16 Burning pillars, 6 Fire Bolts, 2 Deflagrations and a Phoenix. Add them to your deck.
Sell all your aether cards and your remaining Darkness cards except for 1 Obsidian pillar, and buy 4 Phoenixes. Replace them for your Obsidian Pillar and 3 Quantum Pillars.

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While playing AIs and getting your quest rewards, you will get the missing cards for the complete deck.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Gravity element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Use Acceleration in your Armagios for attack power, you can use some of them for defense too! The Otys eat small creatures, so you can also accelerate low HP creatures from your opponent to eat them later!
How to build it
Before anything else, start selling and buying cards from your starter deck until you get the full deck.

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 13 Gravity Pillars, 2 Gravity Pulls, 2 Otyugh and 2 Armagios. Add them to your deck.
Sell all your Aether cards and your remaining Darkness cards except for 6 obsidian pillars, and buy 3 Armagios, 5 Accelerations and 2 Momentums. Replace them for your Obsidian pillars and Other cards and you are done.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Life element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Cast Adrenaline in your creatures to make them attack 4 times instead of 1! You can choose to replace the Cockatrices for Scorpions if you like them more.
How to build it
Start selling and buying cards from your starter deck until you have the full deck. No more science, you will even have more than 100 electrum left!

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 12 Emerald pillars, 6 Horned Frogs and 6 Cockatrices. Add them to your deck.
Take out and sell all your aether cards and your remaining Darkness cards except for 2 Obsidian pillars. Buy 6 Adrenalines and replace them for your Obsidian pillars, Quantum pillars and Dagger. Yor are done!

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Light element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Play your creatures as soon as you can and cast the Blessings in your Pegasus to double their effect when using Dive.
How to build it
Before doing anything, start selling and buying cards until you get this deck:

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 18 Light pillars and 5 Blessings. Add them to your deck.
Remove and sell all your Aether cards and your remaining Darkness cards excepr for 3 Obsidian Pillars, and buy 1 Golden Dragon and 4 Pegasus.
Add them to your deck and remove and sell your Dagger, 1 Quantum Pillar and your remaining Darkness cards, and buy 2 Pegasus. You are done now.

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While getting your quest rewards you will gain enough  to buy the 2 dragons missing.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Time element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Play your creatures as soon as you can, play the Precognitions if you don't have more creatures in hand.
How to build it
Before you start, start selling and buying cards until you get this deck:

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Sell the Black Dragon, Devourers, parasites, Dusk Mantle and Nightfall in order to buy 17 Time Factories, 3 Precognitions and 4 Ghost of the Past. Add them to your deck.
Remove and sell your Aether cards and all the remaining Darkness cards except 2 Ghost of the past and 2 Devonian Dragons. Add them to your deck.
Sell your Obsinidan pillars, Dagger and 1 Quantum Pillar and buy 1 more Devonian Dragon.

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While getting your quest rewards, you will earn enough  to buy the few missing cards.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Water element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
Use a Nymph Tears on your Pillars and start reproducing them like rabbits! This is one of the fastest and most reliable unupped rushes. Replace 5-6 pillars for Freezes or Dry Spells if you feel you like them.

How to build it
This deck is so cheap that it doesn't need an explanation. Many pillars and 6 average priced cards.

That's it! You now have a deck that is fun to use and can grind Level 3 and PvP quite effectively. Your next step should be to gain electrum towards building a deck to beat the Arena levels and False Gods. Have fun, and good luck!

[BeefSupreme]

/( ._.)/ have some rep

[TribalTrouble]

Simple, yet effective. I like it

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This is one of the most efficient builds you can make in the Death element for farming Level 3 and PvP. Here's the fastest way to build it.

Strategy
This deck is one of the most effective unupped rushes. The strategy is simple: Play whatever you can as soon as possible. If you can wait for 1 turn to play a Dragon instead of playing a mummy a turn earlier, wait that that turn!

might wanna fix that...

[Absol]

Finally, a needed recent tutorial. Though, i wonder if there's no other guide deserving a place instead of a remake.

[TribalTrouble]

Finally, a needed recent tutorial. Though, i wonder if there's no other guide deserving a place instead of a remake.

Like yours? I think for yours to be added it would now have to link this. I've been linking to your tutorial since I read it.

[Chapuz]

Finally, a needed recent tutorial. Though, i wonder if there's no other guide deserving a place instead of a remake.

I heared the council has just started working on remaking the tutorials section. Let's see what they come with in a near future.

[kaempfer13]

I just realized the synergy between Graboids/Shrieker and Nightmare and noticed that this deck is really cheap, so I thought it could be a good starter deck:

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Price:776
Strategy: Get your graboids out as fast as possible and evolve them as soon as possible. Once you have evolved 1 graboid nightmare the resulting Shrieker; your opponent has now a lot of high cost creatures on his hand he definitly wont be able to play, doesnt draw a card for one turn + you drain his life. Every creature the opponnent managed to get out can be targeted with reverse time.

[timetock]

I just realized the synergy between Graboids/Shrieker and Nightmare and noticed that this deck is really cheap, so I thought it could be a good starter deck:

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Price:776
Strategy: Get your graboids out as fast as possible and evolve them as soon as possible. Once you have evolved 1 graboid nightmare the resulting Shrieker; your opponent has now a lot of high cost creatures on his hand he definitly wont be able to play, doesnt draw a card for one turn + you drain his life. Every creature the opponnent managed to get out can be targeted with reverse time.

why would you even put in... there are only uses for nightmare and you would be better off using other cards from and removing altogether. I would suggest removing the 10 darkness cards and replacing them with 5 time pends and possibly some wardens or plate armor, depending on if you want to further delay your opponent from damaging you or protecting your graboids so they don't die from CC

[Gandora]

why would you even put in... there are only uses for nightmare and you would be better off using other cards from and removing altogether. I would suggest removing the 10 darkness cards and replacing them with 5 time pends and possibly some wardens or plate armor, depending on if you want to further delay your opponent from damaging you or protecting your graboids so they don't die from CC

I haven't tried it but it looks like a good deck.
Shriekers are vulnerable to CC, so hindering your opponent to draw cards is a nice protection without having to burrow your shriekers. Additionally, it prevents your opponent from drawing shields and the reverse time get rid of otyughs or slows down rush decks (especially cremations) very efficiently.

[kaempfer13]

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I just realized the synergy between Graboids/Shrieker and Nightmare and noticed that this deck is really cheap, so I thought it could be a good starter deck:

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Price:776
Strategy: Get your graboids out as fast as possible and evolve them as soon as possible. Once you have evolved 1 graboid nightmare the resulting Shrieker; your opponent has now a lot of high cost creatures on his hand he definitly wont be able to play, doesnt draw a card for one turn + you drain his life. Every creature the opponnent managed to get out can be targeted with reverse time.

why would you even put in... there are only uses for nightmare and you would be better off using other cards from and removing altogether. I would suggest removing the 10 darkness cards and replacing them with 5 time pends and possibly some wardens or plate armor, depending on if you want to further delay your opponent from damaging you or protecting your graboids so they don't die from CC

The nightmares are the 2nd most important part of this deck; your opponent is usually forced to stick with his first ~10 cards. Your suggestions allow only either of the following things: Stop the creatures the opponent has played from attacking or protect your creatures from cc spells, while this deck does both by simple not allowing to draw them.

[BeefSupreme]

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I just realized the synergy between Graboids/Shrieker and Nightmare and noticed that this deck is really cheap, so I thought it could be a good starter deck:

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Price:776
Strategy: Get your graboids out as fast as possible and evolve them as soon as possible. Once you have evolved 1 graboid nightmare the resulting Shrieker; your opponent has now a lot of high cost creatures on his hand he definitly wont be able to play, doesnt draw a card for one turn + you drain his life. Every creature the opponnent managed to get out can be targeted with reverse time.

why would you even put in... there are only uses for nightmare and you would be better off using other cards from and removing altogether. I would suggest removing the 10 darkness cards and replacing them with 5 time pends and possibly some wardens or plate armor, depending on if you want to further delay your opponent from damaging you or protecting your graboids so they don't die from CC

The nightmares are the 2nd most important part of this deck; your opponent is usually forced to stick with his first ~10 cards. Your suggestions allow only either of the following things: Stop the creatures the opponent has played from attacking or protect your creatures from cc spells, while this deck does both by simple not allowing to draw them.

Have you heard of the pretty little deck Nightmares of the Past? It uses the synergy of Nightmare/Ghost of the Past and it works much more effectively than Shrieker/Nightmare because of the Ghost of the Past's ability.

[Dm]

Your "How to build it" is rather weak and isn't any good. "Sell and buy cards until you get at this deck" -- Find the optimal way. Some combination of sold cards + bought ones can make it so you can get the deck before a single fight.