Hello everyone, I am a new player of the Shadow Era. It's the first time I post a thread on the forum. If it has any problems or somewhere to improve, please tell me. Now I am level 8 in 3 days, and I won a lot with my current deck going with Eladwen. I didn't spend money on it, and I used my first 100 crystals to buy a human mage deck. My current deck goes like this:
Eladwen
2dirk
4puwen
4blake
3aldon
2To
4fireball
poison gas
4Lightning Strike
2Tome
portal
2supernova
2arcane burst
2retreat
2bazaar
bad santa
voice of winter
2artful squire
2rider of ellos

Seem complicated? Yes, I sold all the other cards and use my gold to buy this. And, this deck sometimes seems a little bit tricky against the other players. I would rather like to rush the game, but sometimes the right cards just disappear..

Normally, I win most of the worriers when I pile up with allies and abilities. It's just kinda troublesome when I face the hunter and wulven and
mage with portal and dagger of Unmaking(I found the words I organized before just die away). Ok, obviously my deck has a lot of disadvantages but I have to use it right now since I don't have gold. I know aggro, control and stall these three game styles, but I don't know how to reconcile these three styles so I can face every situations flexbly. For example, sometimes I want to rush, but the opponent has a lot of weapon and armer, as well as a lot of protecter, and I suffer attack from those ally like sandworm, aeon, braxnorian soldier and so on. so I bought two artful squires, two supernova and voice of winter in a fit of pique(no gold for LLN). ok, something is said.

another problem is that I found cards that have resorces of 4 or more seem useless some time. I often pile up with cards over 3 resorces at the first round and I hesitate which card to sac. for example, I have poison gas, puwen TO, rider of ellos, retreat, bad santa and portal at the first round, and the following cards are all four-resorces. I was suppress by the opponent and since I sac a lot of 4-resorces cards, I lack control and attack power when the game goes on. If I started with kris and some other 2 or 3 resorces cards, it would be easier, but still it seems the longer the game takes, the bigger probability I lose. I always have games that I threw out bundles of fireballs and lightning, and the opponent was dying with less than 7 points, and I found out that I don't have allies or abilities to use, and I always lack cards in my hand after several rounds of bombardment. and the opponent started to strike and piled up allys and at that key time, I just didn't get the supernova, and I died after the trample of the allies(I just escape in order not to see my dying). That is always something I think about. I know I should get some gold and exchange some cards in my deck, like priest of the light, aeon, honored dead more bad santa. I want to control the game(I would prefer to rush if it works), which means I need some protectors and armors so I can stay longer? Since it says cards should remain under 45 or 42, would it be too many cards if I use them all? And someone says that those high attack ally should bind with portal, how about that. and LLN, sever ties, dagger of unmaking,layarian seductress, for a stall game? and say something about gunther,
and the mage items and abilities at the 17 pages in the merchant? I just get lost my direction after viewing so many opinions of the other excel players. Thank you very much!

PS: you can send your opinions in Chinese or Japanese if you prefer.