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Patch Notes & Development / Challenge account modes and alts menu

« on: January 28, 2024, 10:00:31 pm »

Now you can play OETG challenge modes!

We've just added an "Alts" menu into the "Miscellaneous" section in the lower middle area of the main menu. This is a new feature that will allow you to create sub-accounts under your main account using a variety of restrictions and challenges. It's a powerful tool that will hopefully be expanded in the future to allow for many more ways to play, game modes, events, and tournaments, but for now, we are launching with just a small handful of challenge modes available.

Today, there are five types of challenge mode/sub-account available: Spins-only self-found, Spins-only league, Spins-only hard self-found, Spins-only hard league, and Custom. Custom will allow you to experiment with your own challenges through combining a number of possible restrictions, and for now it should be considered fully experimental (though everything currently available should work). Most flags should hopefully be fairly self-explanatory and just restrict various main menu options, but please let us know if you're curious about the details of anything in particular.

The premade challenge modes are all disable Shop, which means that money is useless except to pay the entrance fees for AI battles & upgrade pillars. You can use your starter cards, open your starter packs, use oracle cards, and use anything you can win from quests. But besides that, all of your non-pillar cards will need to come from the free card spin after an AI battle.

Two of the premade challenges are "Self Found", and two are "League". Both "League" challenges will place you into a league with all other players who have selected that exact challenge. Participants in the same league challenge mode can trade with other participants in exactly the same league challenge mode, but not with regular accounts or other challenges. Both "Self Found" challenges truly require you to use only what you can find, since trading is fully prohibited.

Finally, two of the premade challenges are described as "Hard". In these variants, upgrading non-pillars is disabled (can still spin upgraded cards), and when you lose, the AI gets to spin a card to take from your deck.

To create a challenge account, go to the Alts menu from the main menu and press "Create" at the bottom. Pick a name, pick an element, pick a challenge, and you're ready to go. You can swap freely between your main account and your challenge alts at the top of the Alt menu.

The challenge modes themselves are fairly straightforward right now, but the feature itself can do a number of things, and we hope to expand it in the future. Not every part of it is fully described in this post, and please let us know if you run into anything strange or if there's anything you can't figure out. More soon.

See you in the leagues!

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UI/UX Suggestions / Out of game UI fixes

« on: October 11, 2019, 09:09:02 pm »

Round one, based entirely off a personal passthrough. Have not referred back to other people's reports yet.

In progress, please ignore

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Decks / give sosa

« on: August 30, 2019, 08:09:46 pm »

current favorite version

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previous versions

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Decks / self endow

« on: August 29, 2019, 04:14:05 am »

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buff a sader, living weapon it, temper it, have weaponsader endow itself, have sader buddies endow double-endowed weaponsader

for rico versions, hold ricos until after living weapon if they don't already have a weapon

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UI/UX Suggestions / Re: Random detail UI fixes

« on: August 11, 2019, 06:14:49 pm »

from my notes:
-player targeting rectangles are weird or cut off or something
-arena deck button text is still off center. needs more right padding or less left padding or something. leaderboard buttons also it looks like.
-more of a UX than UI change, but make gold pack cost 75 and have one less common ffs. adjust colo streak rewards accordingly.
~~-quanta generating creatures should say "air"/"earth"/etc again instead of saying "quanta #"~~
~~-bug that probably occurred due to a UI change: upped holy light went from costing -1 to costing 1. change it back to costing 0 and producing 1 when cast.~~

bigger things:
-make card text larger on instances
-make instance text have legible contrast. if necessary, do away with different colored backgrounds and white/black text for upped status. we can figure out another way of describing that if we need to.

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General Game Discussion / permanent reveal

« on: August 11, 2019, 05:27:57 pm »

[10:25 AM]cg:so we're considering making a change to things like precog, unsummon, fractal, etc
[10:26 AM]cg:basically, any time a card has been revealed it remains revealed unless it is somehow shuffled (which almost never happens)
[10:26 AM]cg:so if you could know what a card is by taking very close notes of everything that you're shown, you will now be able to know what a card is by looking at it
[10:26 AM]cg:anyone have any opinions on the topic

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Decks / Enchantressink

« on: August 10, 2019, 04:04:38 am »

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UI/UX Suggestions / Random detail UI fixes

« on: August 09, 2019, 03:01:50 pm »

"buy max" button (capped at 100 packs -cg) in shop as an early game convenience - sets buy# to max of selected type you can afford

account name above money on upper left main menu

label the misc section on main menu. or just rewrite main menu. (idk what to name it so lets just redo main menu so we don't have to think of something -cg)

label deck code box on editor

settings button labels still overflow

move and label mark in editor. possible options in discord

"exit" -> "take & exit" on show-content-of-purchased-pack screen

from loog on discord

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New Feature Requests / Re: Restricted Accounts for tournaments/events/challenges

« on: August 02, 2019, 12:20:16 am »

Quote

[5:14 PM]serprex:Bring back original card collection method. Pillar drops & transmutation where it's at
[5:14 PM]cg:I’m up for that as a challenge
[5:14 PM]cg:We can make challenge accounts that use card sets.
[5:15 PM]cg:Hell, we can make challenge accounts have different banks of ai decks
[5:15 PM]serprex:Basically make an "original card set" account & expose ai1/ai2/ai3/ai4/fg
[5:15 PM]cg:Yeah exactly that

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New Feature Requests / Re: Restricted Accounts for tournaments/events/challenges

« on: August 01, 2019, 11:59:47 pm »

Couple pieces of preemptive exploit mitigation specifically for tournament/event accounts:
(1) add a time stamp for account creation to library for tournament/event accounts (or all accounts, why not) to prevent spending the week before the tournament rerolling sealed decks until you get a card pool you want.

(2) Make an option for presets (not user configurable) that prevents looking at the account through library by anyone other than codesmiths. Codesmiths can look to settle disputes. Not user configurable (ie not a setting) because I like public cardpools for a variety of reasons. If people want this as a general user setting we can discuss it. Blocked library view should just not show cards but still show other stats. Should also block export. Users should get a /allowlibrary command that irrevocably removes this flag. Should default to happening to most tournament/event accounts (particularly anything that gains an advantage when opponent knows your resources, eg sealed) but not things where trading is expected (eg ladder).

Neither is a huge priority. The former can be mitigated by just requiring specific phrasing of account names that isn’t published until the event starts. The latter can’t really be mitigated but also is only a relatively minor advantage, and given to everyone equally.

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New Feature Requests / Restricted Accounts for tournaments/events/challenges

« on: August 01, 2019, 09:24:40 pm »

tldr: Special accounts with in-game support for various restrictions/bonuses for the purposes of tournaments, events, and challenges. Think sealed deck tournaments, short-term closed-economy "ladder"s, or no bazaar challenge (from original)/no money challenge (from here).

Spoiler for Mechanics:

Login screen gets a checkbox that reads "Restricted Account (Tournaments/Events/Challenges)". If checked, it shows extra account creation options before finalizing the account. The options will consist of preset settings for tournaments/events/challenges and the ability to create custom settings (for smaller tournaments or personal challenges).

For PvP stuff like tournaments/events, we can create presets from the available options to provide support for the rules for whatever tournament/event is running next. For challenges, we can just brainstorm whatever challenges sound like fun and add them.

Any special accounts will default to being unable to interact with other accounts with some exceptions. The default "special account isolation" restriction will mean that you cannot appear on normal leaderboards, submit arena decks, affect submitted arena decks' standings/rating/etc, or trade/sell/bazaar. PvP will still generally be allowed, though if random queue pvp (pvp1/pvp2 from original) is implemented, this restriction would also prevent that. Some specific presets would not be subject to default isolation settings, but those would be one-offs. The default would be isolation.

Custom accounts would be provided with a list of restrictions that can be selected as well as the ability to build your own starters in the sense of starting with arbitrary amounts of gold or arbitrary amounts of free packs.

Any special accounts typically cannot ever remove their restrictions. In some cases (mostly for tournaments/events), admins should be able to lift account restrictions after the event and return the accounts to standard accounts. In the short term, this can be handled manually in the database or something, or just by telling people to nuke their accounts and giving them a reward code equal to the contents.

Library view should publicly display any restrictions placed on the account.

While most special accounts should not appear on standard leaderboards, challenge accounts should (eventually) receive their own leaderboards specific to their challenge. If we do "ladder"-style closed economies, the active "ladder" should also have its own leaderboard. Bigger events could also have a temporary leaderboard as well. Doesn't need to happen immediately since the leaderboards can happen retroactively based on the account flags when they're added later.

Spoiler for UI Details:

Spoiler for Custom account options:

Spoiler for Presets:

edit: We can put custom off more or less indefinitely, too, if it adds a lot of coding trouble. At least 98% of the value of the feature is in the presets - custom is just there because I like custom options to be available for people to play with whenever possible. Custom-sized sealed decks are the biggest thing we get out of custom anyways, so it could also be simplified to just custom-sized sealed deck and leave the restrictions to preset challenges that are added through the code.

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UI/UX Suggestions / Suggestions for first draft of card text rewrites

« on: July 25, 2019, 09:22:28 pm »

Please put them here. Current draft text is up on the test server. http://40.117.144.196:13602/

Note that we know there are a lot of cards that overflow the text box, please don't worry about reporting it (though if anyone happened to compile a full list of them it would save me time). We will address that one way or another before these go live.

edit: ongoing list of things that need fixed that i can't fix directly in skilltext.js:
(from first draft, might be done already)

thermal recoil (absorber) shield text needs changed to “Increases damage from each attacker by 1.”
Losecharge should change its text to “Expires at the end of this turn.” at turns:0
Upped pillar: remove negative cost, gain “Gain 1 whatever when this card comes into play.”
Precog should affect all opponents for the purposes of 2v2 or 1v1v1
upped pillar change also to whatever else costs -1

(from second draft)

"2frozen" -> "Frozen (2)". Also lives and anything else that shows charges.
show different text for card in hand/editor vs in play. update losecharge text while in hand/editor to "Lasts for X turns". X should count the turn it's played (i forget what you index the charges to), so dim shield should say 2/3.
can we easily make 1/4 (eg quad towers, tesseract) display as "1/4" (three charcters) instead of converting into the actual one-character 1/4 fraction? it's really hard to distinguish the fraction with the low text size
give psion the card text "Psionic cards deal spell damage and typically bypass shields.". if we want to give psion an "ability" that does nothing called "psioncardtext" or something in order to make it have this text, that's fine with me. also if there are any other creatures that start with a complicated passive (hognose?) that isn't explained by their active, we should do something similar with dummy abilities to give them card text
make the things that use the unicode fraction symbol for 1/4 or whatever to instead say "1/4" with three characters so it's easier to read
resolve overflow either by the expandy text box animation or by whatever anti says.

[li]make unupped repulsor say "enters play with 1 stack". if this is a huge pain in the ass, we should find another way to make it clear that unupped repulsor is 1dr.
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Spoiler for for me to do for draft2:

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Decks / Spirustosis

« on: July 25, 2019, 03:37:22 am »

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Quests / Re: Tutorial - Basic

« on: July 20, 2019, 09:38:01 pm »

Please swap the opponent deck from battle 4 into battle 5 (Active Abilities)

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Please swap the player deck from battle 8 into battle 9 (Coliseum)

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Please remove the word "unupgraded" from battle 9 pre-battle text (First paragraph after the final page break, "This time you got your ~~unupg~~raded rainbow dragons back.")

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General Game Discussion / Re: FAQ/Guide to oEtG for veterans of original Elements and New Account Walkthrough

« on: July 20, 2019, 06:43:33 pm »

Spoiler for PvP:

Spoiler for Cards, Economy, Collecting, and Trading:

Spoiler for Upgrades and Shinies:

Spoiler for Rarities:

Instead of all unupgraded cards costing basically the same and all upgraded cards costing basically the same, card cost now varies with card rarity.
Rarities don't particularly correlate with power. In fact, I would personally say commons contain the most "powerful" cards. Rarity roughly correlates to how complicated or weird a card is, or to whether you'll typically want a lot of copies of them in your deck.
Commons are worth 1.375g each unupped, and 8.25g upped. They are easiest to get from bronze packs. They are typically very basic, straightforward staple cards. Many 6-ofs are common.
Uncommons are worth 5g each unupped, and 30g upped. They are easiest to get from silver packs. They are typically more complex cards and support cards.
Rares are worth 30g each unupped, and 180g upped. They are easiest to get from gold packs. They are often niche cards, in-element weapons, and things like miracle that are often used with lower copies.
Shards are their own rarity, worth 35g each unupped, and 210g upped. They mostly come from platinum packs.
Nymphs are also a separate rarity. Nymph packs cost 250g and have a 100% chance to give you the nymph you want, so you can functionally purchase nymphs straight across for gold. Upped ones are made by combining six unupped, just like most other cards. Nymphs were made purchaseable to ensure that pvp was available at an equal footing. Shiny nymphs have the same rarity and means of acquisition as nymphs in original for the collectors.
When I talk about card cost or card value (and when the game talks about it), it's derived from a bronze pack. Packs are discussed more below, but a bronze pack costs 15g and contains 10 commons which each have a chance to become an uncommon. So, the price of a common would be 1.5g, but after factoring in the value of the chance to become an uncommon, it becomes 1.375g per common. Then, knowing the value of a common, you can look at a silver pack, subtract the value of the commons, and determine the value of the remaining uncommons (factoring in the chance to upgrade rarity). Repeat for gold and platinum.
Pillars/pendulums are their own rarity. You have unlimited unupped pillars and pendulums for free. Upped towers/pends cost 50g each. They are one of the best places to put your first handful of gold.
Note that an unupped rare costs 30g while an upped common only costs a bit over 8. One of the biggest things you can do for yourself is force yourself to stop thinking an upped card costs an entire unupped deck. You could have two unupped arsenics or you could have six upped giant frogs plus two upped long swords for about the same price.

Spoiler for Card Packs:

Spoiler for Trading and Bazaar:

Spoiler for The Economy and Money:

First, just note that any time I'm talking about original's economy, I'm talking about original's economy after the most recent content patch back in like 2012 or whenever. With fully functional, lively, and frequently shifting arenas. I am not talking about the current free-money-button in arena that exists in original.
The oetg economy is built to make pvp very accessible. If you like having a pvp advantage from luck or grinding, this will annoy you. Sorry.
It is quite possible to have a full unupped pvp playset (including nymphs and shards) the day you create your account. It doesn't even take all day. If you focus on building the like 20 pvp decks you want most, you can be done in a couple hours.
Upped takes quite a bit longer, but it's still much faster than original (pre-broken arena remember). A full upped playset could probably still be done in a week but it might be pretty grueling. Two weeks is certainly an option.
Shinies exist as the long term grinding goal currently. It takes a very long time (similar to, possibly longer than, full TE in original with functioning arena).
We hope to add additional long term collection goals, including alternate art.
However, anything that affects in-game performance will remain easy to get. This won't be either pay-to-win or grind-to-win. Grind-to-show-off. That's all.
If you don't like to grind and just like pvp, you'll be done grinding about when you figure out what 1/3 of the cards you don't recognize do. If you do like to grind, you have a lot of collecting to do and can show off what you collect.
The goal is for every AI target to be a viable grinding target. Every archetype should be a viable grinding archetype (within reason). This isn't perfectly completed, but it's pretty close. You can make good money grinding commoners. You can make good money playing stalls.
A lot of that is win streaks. Your reward will go up for win streaks within a target. The rate and the cap depend on the target. Your streak saves with the specific target and will remain even if you go do something else or log out.
There are also a lot of bonuses for performance in a battle. Think EM except for a lot more things than having full health. There's a full list of them somewhere in here. Bonuses are also where your ending hp is calculated.
After-game bonuses (including coliseum bonus for the two duel battles, and age tax in arena) are additive. So if you have a +50% lots-of-hp bonus, +400% coliseum bonus, and +30% for decking them out, you get +480%. If you have a +100% lots-of-hp bonus and a -50% arena age tax, you have a +50% bonus. Overall bonus is applied to the target's base reward to calculate your final gold reward. Win streak bonus, unlike everything else, is multiplicative with the other bonuses.
You automatically successfully spin exactly one card from every opponent you defeat. Shards and nymphs can't be spun (no relics - it'll just spin something else). Pillars/pends/towers can't either.
Original has UEI. Oetg has OUEI. It stands for openEtG UEI. OUEI is very different from UEI in one exceptionally important manner. UEI is gold per hour. OUEI is gold per second. Yes. It's not a joke. It may have once been a joke.
But it isn't a joke. It's actually an extremely handy way of looking at gold gain. You can also convert OUEI into gold/hour (multiply by 3600). 2.8 OUEI is about 10k gold/hour.
I said it's handy because in practice, an OUEI between 0 and 1 is not a good grinding deck. 1 and 2 is early game profitable or late game untuned decks. Anything between 2 and 3 is good. If it's between 3 and 4, we are probably going to look at it closely to see if it's OP. If it's steadily above 4, it's almost definitely OP.
OUEI is very personal at the moment, since it's based on your actual time. There's a large amount of YMMV.
On that note, though, the game will take stats (including full OUEI) for you, in the stats tab. You can copy that output into a spreadsheet linked on the forum and it will spit out all the stats of your run for you automatically, no effort required.
There's also AOUEI (abstracted OUEI) which I haven't released yet, which depersonalizes the very personal OUEI in basically the same manner that UEI is abstracted across players.
Whole bunch of decks tested in the forums if you're looking for ideas. Lots of stuff changes though so tests are not necessarily still accurate.
oEtG doesn't have score. oEtG has wealth, which is roughly similar. Wealth is the total value of all cards on your account plus the total value of unspent gold on your account. As I mentioned, the value of cards is set to the amount of gold you pay to get them out of packs, so your total wealth is basically equal to the net total gold you have won from the game.
The game refers to "ZE" or "SZE" (and tracks your progress towards these goals automatically). These stand for, respectively, "Zero Edition" and "Shiny Zero Edition". "Zero" is in contrast to original's "basic edition" and "trainer edition" nuances - ZE is six of every card (upped and unupped) but doesn't automatically count your towers/pends. SZE is the same thing but for shinies.
If you use the "library" button on the main menu (without anyone's name in the "player" text box), it will show you your collection and add some extra stats breaking down your current collection progress. You can also add a players name to the "player" text box and hit library to see any other player's collection.

Spoiler for Walkthrough for building a new account:

This is definitely not the only way to start an account. This is in my experience the fastest way, but considerable effort has been put in to making it possible to play oetg however you want to play it. If you prefer a different playstyle or prefer to find your own way, you absolutely should. You won't lose very much efficiency by doing so. This guide is for people who don't want to figure out how to start in an entirely new game and just want to get back to having a full collection ASAP. Also for people who don't want to play against the AI and just want to start playing PvP. Also for people trying to make alts efficiently for whatever reason.

Spoiler for First Hour:

This stage may take more than an hour if you're unlucky or if you're spending a lot of time reading what cards do (which you should if you're not used to them), but it really isn't going to take long even if you really take your time.
It really doesn't matter which starter you choose. They are all effectively the same wealth value. They can all make an effective (even in late game terms) grinder very quickly. "Build your own" is also an option, which will just give you more free packs instead of starter decks. Every element will start with three prebuilt decks saved (a mono, a duo, and a quad) and a handful of free bronze/silver/gold packs. The starter decks are good enough that you can jump right in if you just want to play some games, but there's definitely a lot of room for improvement.
First thing you should do after opening your free packs is build your own 30 card mono starter. Focus on damage, it isn't really worth worrying about actives or control at this stage. If you have a good shield, feel free to add it, but it doesn't matter a lot. You want to focus on creatures that have at least as much strength as their quanta cost. If you have enough creatures to build out a deck with a reasonable QI, great, you're done with step one. If not, fill it out with whatever you have.
For the moment, your AI target is commoner. Even from your very first battle, you can probably maintain a 90+% win rate in there if you're familiar with original. It will be surprisingly profitable once you have a win streak going.
Until you have a deck with enough creatures that are at least 1:1 strength:quanta, all your money goes to bronze (common) packs. It is not likely to take more than a few until you have a good enough spread of creatures. Remember that six bad unupped creatures probably combine into one good (at this stage) upped creature. Conversely, remember that six good unupped creatures (e.g. mummies) are probably better than one slightly better upped creature for the moment.
Besides your free packs, you should completely ignore any packs past bronze until you have a solid grinding deck. Bronze packs give you 10 cards for 15g. Silver packs give you 6 cards for 25g. Upgrades come from combining extra copies of cards. Higher rarity cards aren't more powerful, they're more niche. So your power base for effective grinding comes from commons. It will be very quick to get your solid grinding deck, so this isn't going to prevent you from getting in to higher rarity cards in the very near future. Ignoring the higher rarities right now actually gets you into the higher rarities sooner.
Once you have a bare minimum of unupped common creatures to make a decent unupped deck, switch to buying upgraded towers/pendulums. It would be best to know how many you need for your budget grinding deck and buy that many, but if you don't know yet, 6 of each (or 12 total however you want to break it down) is just fine. That costs 600g, which is probably 10-20 minutes in commoner at this stage.
Whenever you break your commoner win streak or whenever you get bored with commoner, you can try dipping your toes into mage or arena1. Both of them are within reach even with very early decks. These targets will involve a lot more losses but the higher base profit can balance that out. Win streaking in commoner is also still very effective (even moreso as your speed improves with more upgrades), so this comes down to your preference.
Once you have your towers/pends upgraded, switch back to bronze packs until you complete your all-common fully-upped budget grinding deck. The total wealth value of the upped commons in your deck is probably only around 150g (much less than the towers you already bought), but since you get the copies randomly from packs, you're probably going to end up spending 500g or so on bronze packs before you get there.

Spoiler for Next Steps:

At this point, you should have a fully upgraded budget grinding deck made out of commons. Your budget grinding deck is likely at least tier 2 or 1.5 as an endgame grinder, just so you know. There is definitely room to improve it with higher rarity cards (particularly if you want to play against harder targets), but you're able to make good profit right now.
From here, your options open up a lot. Since you have a grinding deck, you can just start working on grinding out more decks that you want to try or cards that you want to experiment with. If you're looking for efficient next steps, you have two paths:
If you're a PvP player, you don't need to build anything else for PvE basically ever again. Your budget grinding deck is good enough to grind out a full pvp playset in the next few hours. If you want to do this, fire up commoner/mage/A1 and play for a while. A full unupped playset (besides nymphs) is probably going to cost around 20k, and a full set of unupped nymphs is another 18k. Since nymphs can be purchased straight for cash from the store, there's no randomness in getting them so you can easily only buy them as you need them if you don't feel like grinding that second block of cash.
If you want to continue to improve your PvE efficiency, the next thing you should aim for is a solid set of coliseum decks so you can complete more events every day.
Your budget grinder is a perfectly fine Novice Duel (mage prediction) deck, though if you have some good shields or a bit of control, it's a good idea to trade away some speed for higher win rate. Expert Duel (demigod prediction) varies per demigod. About a third of them have fully unupped budget prediction decks listed in the thread, but all of them have more expensive counters available you can work towards and may be able to afford now. It isn't really worth beelining to owning all the demigod predictions, but you should always take a swing at them with what you have available.
Novice endurance (three commoners) can be done with your budget deck, but you will have a much better time if you splash a little bit of healing (2-4 cards) because you don't heal between battles. If you have enough luciferins or upped holy lights, these can be played without modifying your quanta base. If not, the best thing to do is splash 2-3 heals off your mark and switch to 100% towers/pillars. If you have any in-element heal for your grinder, add a bit of that. You're fighting commoners so unbalancing your deck isn't going to cost you many wins, but the extra bit of heal will help a lot.
Expert Endurance is rough. It's worth building yourself a deck but no deck is going to be perfect for this. Good starting choices are wolfbond (Alpha Wolf, Empathic Bond, and Giant Frog), USEMitosis, or upped monoaether.
Besides building a set of coliseum decks, this is also a good time to start building out more decks to play against tougher AI targets. See the decks board for ideas or the stats board for performance metrics.
If you're building a PvP playset or going for fully upped trainer edition, remember that packs both have a chance to upgrade the cards in them to a higher rarity, and that packs contain cards of lower rarities. Don't buy all the commons first and then start on uncommons, or you'll end up with three full sets of commons. It's overall best to start at shards and work your way down. There's a bit of an argument for buying starting with shards and moving down to rares when you're around 75% done with shards, hoping that some of your rare packs will upgrade the rares to the missing shards. Remember that rarity can only upgrade once, so you aren't going to get any shards out of bronze or silver packs.

Spoiler for Budget decks for every element:

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Patch Notes & Development / Challenge account modes and alts menu

UI/UX Suggestions / Out of game UI fixes

Decks / give sosa

Decks / self endow

UI/UX Suggestions / Re: Random detail UI fixes

General Game Discussion / permanent reveal

Decks / Enchantressink

UI/UX Suggestions / Random detail UI fixes

New Feature Requests / Re: Restricted Accounts for tournaments/events/challenges

New Feature Requests / Re: Restricted Accounts for tournaments/events/challenges

New Feature Requests / Restricted Accounts for tournaments/events/challenges

UI/UX Suggestions / Suggestions for first draft of card text rewrites

Decks / Spirustosis

Quests / Re: Tutorial - Basic

General Game Discussion / Re: FAQ/Guide to oEtG for veterans of original Elements and New Account Walkthrough