History VideoGame / Elements

** Reverse Time will essentially kills a creature and returns the card to its owner, preventing the creature from attacking and stalling it's owner - but this can also be used to cure a dying creature, or stop you from running out of cards.

** Gravity Pull makes all creatures one side attack a specific creature on the other. This is will of course eventually kill that creature, but if the creature has particularly high health, it makes a nice human shield.

''Elements'' is an online, fantasy-themed CollectibleCardGame. As the online documentation puts it, "[[AGodIsYou The player is an elemental]], a spirit composed of an element; elements are the fundamental building blocks of nature. Each elemental has an arsenal of skills that can be used in a duel against another elemental; each skill corresponds to a card."

* [[AGodIsYou An Elemental Is You]]

* AttackBackfire: One popular strategy for players with a Deck consisting of death cards is to use "Aflotoxin" to turn an opponent's creature into a malignant cell, allow it to duplicate itself until it fills the player's deck, then kill them all using Plague or thunderstorm and gain an army of skeletons using a Boneyard. The problem is that many shields block 1 or more damage from each enemy creature, and skeletons only do one damage, so each will be unable to hurt their opponent. To make things worse, players with Otyughs will now be able to greatly buff their attack, and empathic bonds will allow the player to heal almost completely thanks to the Malignant Cells.

** There are two main uses for Armagios - using their Gravity Pull ability to turn them into human shields, or using the Catapult to fling them at your opponent. The AI has a tendency of trying to do both, essentially wasting a quantum and robbing themselves of a potential shield.

* BlessedWithSuck: Gravity's dragon has insane amounts of hit points, making it hard to kill, but also makes it one of the more expensive dragons, and it is even countered by Gravity's own elemental shield. This literally can happen if a user has a weight shield up and buffs the opponent's creatures to make them too large to hit.

* AttackBackfire: One popular strategy for players with a Deck consisting of death cards is to use "Aflotoxin" to turn an opponent's creature into a malignant cell, allow it to duplicate itself until it fills the player's deck, then kill them all using Plague or thunderstorm and gain an army of skeletons using a Boneyard. The problem is that many shields block 1 or more damage from each enemy creature, and skeletons only do one damage, so each will be unable to hurt their opponent. To make things worse, players with Otyughs will now be able to greatly buff their creatures, and empathic bonds will allow the player to heal almost completely thanks to the Malignant Cells.

* AttackBackfire: One popular strategy for players with a Deck consisting of death cards is to use "Aflotoxin" to turn an opponent's creature into a malignant cell, allow it to duplicate itself until it fills the player's deck, then kill them all using Plague or thunderstorm and gain an army of skeletons using a Boneyard. The problem is that many shields block 1 or more damage from each enemy creature, and skeletons only do one damage, so each will be unable to hurt their opponent.

** There are two main uses for Armagios - using their Gravity Pull ability to turn them into human shields, or use the Catapult to fling them at your opponent. The AI has a tendency of trying to do both, essentially wasting a quanta and robbing themselves of a potential shield.

* AwesomeYetPractical: OTK decks, mainly Dragonbow. Some of the two or three card combo can be this too, like Horned Frog + Adrenaline or Voodoo Doll + Gravity Pull.

* ShoutOut: Players can summon an earth based creature called a [[{{Tremors}} Graboid and then evolve it into a Shrieker.]]
** Also, [[DungeonsAndDragons Otyugh and Mind Flayer/Ulitharid.]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: Due mainly to the persistence of quanta from generation to use (with a computer tracking numbers, there's no need for a physical game's "tap to pay" system), it's actually practical to build decks using all 12 elements at once. In fact, they make up the bulk of arena grinders.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Due mainly to the persistence of quanta from generation to use (with a computer tracking numbers, there's no need for a physical game's "tap to pay" system), it's actually practical to build decks using all 12 elements at once. In fact, using at least 5 is almost ''de rigueur'' when going up against False Gods.

* LuckBasedMission: The element specific weapons cannot be purchased and can only be obtained by rolling one of them randomly on the post-game slot machine, which already has a very dim rate for common cards, or as a daily giveaway by the Oracle (who picks one card among all the cards in the game). Any deck who aspires to have a decent chance at PvP or the False Gods requires at least 2 or 3 copies of the same weapon. Have fun.

** Presumably the same could be said with intentionally getting a malignant cell on your side of the field. It's supposed to fill up the side with borderline useless creatures. Using Otyug or Fallen druid/shaman on them simply means you get more fodder.

** Shard of Readiness' effect: "Time creatures can use their skill twice this turn". When applied to Deja Vu, it creates two copies instead of one. This is also a broken combo, and is soon fixed.

* '''Pillars:''' These are your primary source of Quanta (singular Quantum. Quanta are the energy you use to play your other cards.

** To a lesser extent, Lightningstorm which acts as a mass CC, dealing 1 damage to every opposing creatures.

** Which can be painful facing somebody who can simply ignore weak attacks. The more so if the rusher hit the creature cap early and lacks free space to summon anything effective.

* MegaManning: Crusader, a Light creature, can endow target weapon, which grants him the weapon's attack bonus and skill. This also works on the opponent's weapon.
** In lesser case, Mindgate and Parallel Universe.

* CloningBlues: Aether's signature ability, besides inmortality. Parallel Universe duplicates a creature on either side of the field under your control (With all the buffs it already has); Fractal ''fills'' your hand with copies of the creature.

* '''Earth:''' Earth elementals [[DishingOutDirt have power over minerals, metals and terrestrial beings.]] Earth creatures have special skills that can be used for protection, like burrow: when burrowed, a creature deals less damage, but can't be targeted by common skills and spells. [[StoneWall Earth elementals take advantage of advanced shields that will reduce the damage inflicted upon them.]]
* '''Air:''' Air elementals [[BlowYouAway control gaseous substances and airborne beings]]. The numerous air creatures take advantage of their freedom of movement to deal extra damage to their opponent.

* '''Darkness:''' Darkness elementals are masters of subtleness; they can hide, absorb energies and manage the creatures that dwell in the shadows. Darkness elementals can rely on skills like "Steal" or "Dusk Mantle".

* '''Gravity:''' [[GravityMaster Gravity elementals]] deal with mass and size; their ability to accelerate objects makes them formidable enemies. Gravity elementals have skills like "momentum", that will make a gravity creature unstoppable and "gravity pull" that will waste the enemy attacks on a resistant or unessential creature.

* '''Life:''' Life elementals rely on a wide variety of powerful and different creatures; they can heal themselves and improve their ability to summon creatures using skills like "photosynthesis".
* '''Death:''' Death elementals deal with poison and infections; they will slowly kill their opponent allies and make profit of the taken souls.

* '''Time:''' [[TimeMaster A Time elemental]] ha control over the order of the events, he can slow down his opponent, reverse his actions, or hasten himself.

* '''Fire:''' [[PlayingWithFire Fire elementals]] are highly destructive; they rely on skills like "Fire Bolt", or "destroy" [[KillItWithFire to wipe out the enemy arsenal.]] Fire creatures [[GlassCannondeal higher than average damage but are often brittle.]]