Am I on right path with SG Rainbow deck?

[blackbird77]

I started with the rainbow deck that SG put together in the "How to become RICH in 1 Day" thread, and I have been upgrading cards there and added a couple myself to tweak it. It's very effective against AI3 and HB's, but not against FG's. I think at this point I have a very strong sense of how to play the deck, so I am trying to figure out if I just haven't upgraded it enough yet to beat FG's, or  (as I saw later in some posts in that same thread) whether this deck design is no longer as effective as it used to be, because of rule changes, etc. So basically, I just want to know if this deck design is still something I should be pursuing to upgrade and eventually farm FG's with, or whether I need to start looking at going a different way. (Right now, I can farm HB's *very* effectively with this deck.)

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[Higurashi]

No. SGbow hasn't been good enough for many, many months. However, those three Electrum Hourglasses are useful in all stallbows (such as CCYB, which is still good), and other FG decks like GotP Time.

[Barragor]

Timebows are still very viable options for beating fg's, you just need to tweak a bit and find your own playstyle

[MatrimKK]

I tried this at one point as well with little success, the hourglasses are actually quite useful. 
If you are strapped on cash two unupped false god grinders I always recommend are all dolled down and liquid antimatter. 
If you like the more stall style Flay'em is also nice, and upgrades from that also apply towards the popular Creature Control Why Bother?

[Thiefboy109]

Try Flay'EM if you have the hourglasses upped, I also have a FG deck in my signature if you would like to try it.

[dragonsdemesne]

When I started Elements, I made something quite similar to what you have after about a week or so.  (well, except the upgrades, that took a bit longer)  I've evolved it over the 4 months I've been playing into this: (just to give you an idea of one possible route to take your deck)

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Looking at your deck, I think that would do quite well against halfbloods.  I don't think it's worth your time farming ai3 with that; you should kick its ass pretty much every time, but the games would be too slow to give you much electrum, compared to halfbloods, which you'll probably still beat a lot, and the games won't be much longer than ai3 with that deck, so you'll make more money on ai4.  FGs will be tough with that deck unupgraded.  I know I won the (very!) occasional game with no upgrades or just one or two like you've got against FGs, but it's not worth your time yet.

For what it's worth, one of the first things I did was remove the six sundials and add in other things I liked better to make the deck more my own.  For upgrades, I focused first on cards that the upgrade decreased the casting cost by more than 1 quanta (bone wall, rain of fire in your deck) or on cards that got significantly better with upgrades (otyugh, hourglass) and the quantum pillars first.  The nice thing about most of the cards in your deck is that they are useful in many other kinds of decks as well.

The last things I'd upgrade would be the empathic bonds (1 cheaper isn't much, and I don't find myself using those much), the Steals, (you'll use these in many decks, but they are a very common card to win upgraded from false gods because so many use it, so you can save the upgrade cost), and the Boneyard. (the unupgraded one is cheaper, and if you mutate the skeletons with fallen elf, you don't care if they were elite to begin with)  The hourglasses are also very common ones to win upgraded from false gods because so many use that card, but it's also one of the best cards in your deck, so I'll leave that up to you.  (I upgraded probably 3/6 of them and won the other 3)

The best deck for false gods that I've seen is one on the forums called 'I've got GoTP Time', but it is very boring to play, so I use my rainbow deck, even though it wins ~10% less games than gotp time, because it is way more fun.  (if you do go that route, the hourglasses, eternity, dimensional shield, and one quintessence are used, so if you upgrade those, you can use them in that deck as well, or many other decks too)