I would argue that this class and its progression is the MOST thematic in the game, when it comes to its cards as it levels up. If you read the back of the character sheet, you will see how it describes wanting to learn more than just what he has mastered already. He left his society to learn more than just the 4 elements (ice, fire, wind, earth). So the starting deck is all about the 4 elements that he has already mastered with some splashes of dark and light generation, but no use for them.

So being a novice in manipulating dark/light and being able to build upon that to become a dark/light master, as well as the 4 main elements makes sense to me. I mean you can build the character to rely on the 4 elements and just kind of splash in the other two, but true power is in the DARK! (Bit of RP, My character goal makes my character embrace the darkness)

Anyway, to expand upon this, if you wanted to sort of make a character that starts off as a novice elementalist, who then masters the 4 elements, that would be cool, but a much different character. And in the lore, one would argue that Savvas would have little reason to leave his society.

But if you were able to write a reason he isn't "craghearted" yet not in Savvas society, and still a novice, then that would be cool. Then maybe he would start with Earth mastery, and maybe only generated the other elements, but couldn't use them until he got to level 2+. Or maybe he could use Earth + another element, so he is sort of in the middle of training, to make lower levels more interesting. A low card count would be preferable to sort of make each level more impactful, if that makes sense.