I mainly dislike it because it feels like all it ever does is nerf cards in random spots. It's very, very rare for the actual elements to matter (even if you play an elemental card and there's a spot with the same element, it's very likely that it's a bad spot for the card and you don't want to place it there anyway). Basically... I think it would have been better if the elemental spots only gave plus to cards of the same element instead of nerfing all other cards. However... more of the cards should be elemental then, and there could be a bit less different kinds of elements. And then every spot could always have some kind of element when playing with the elemental rule. That would make it more important and interesting to actually use elemental cards.
...also @ Jiro: since you emerged victorious in the grand final, I think you deserve a chance to win Ifrit back now. HOWEVER... how about we do it like this: if you win, you can just snatch the Ifrit card. But if I win, you will have to use Leviathan the next time you try to win the Ifrit card back. Meaning you will be losing Leviathan if you lose the second time too. Sounds fair?
...@ Psy: I'm all for that.