FFQ / Life-Air-Light for Ai3-Bronze

[Treldon]

Hello everyone!

I feel I have reached the limits of my knowledge with my current deck, and it does not have the potential I need

I have tried to personalize the basic FFQ to a bit more versatile (a little shielding here, a bit of cc there), but it's not enough

So here's what I have

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Problems with the current deck:
- slow. Rushers usually beat it
- cc. As we all know, the fireflies and rustlers are quite easily removed, so even one Thunderstorm can halt the process
Also, except for the two Thunderstorms of my own I have no cc. If I add more the draws get worse, if I remove it, I have none

My aim right now would be to grind Ai3 better (my win rate is about 60-65% right now), and to be able to hit the Arena (only about 45% win rate) to get some rares

So my question is: what ideas do you have to make this deck work? Or should I just drop it and work with one of the Community-recommended decks?

Thanks in advance. Cheers!

[dawn to dusk]

i recommend adding some more hope cards. as well as any OE's you have

[Treldon]

i recommend adding some more hope cards. as well as any OE's you have

The Hopes I will try. But I don't have any OE yet

[serprex]

Thunderstorm is inappropriate CC for FFQ/Hope. Hope blocks small critters; you aren't afraid of swarms. Also drop Solar Buckler
Preferably you'd be running plenty of pends rather than a pillar split

[iancudorinmarian]

I think this might help: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/deck-compilations/%28guide%29-%28collection%29-ffq-decks/

[omegareaper7]

Thunderstorm is inappropriate CC for FFQ/Hope. Hope blocks small critters; you aren't afraid of swarms. Also drop Solar Buckler
Preferably you'd be running plenty of pends rather than a pillar split

Thunderstorm wins mirror matches though.
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But as for the actual deck. Switch mark to life, ditch all life pendulums, use air pendulums. Ditch rustlers, they aren't needed. Hope > solar buckler. Get it down to 30 cards, you want all the cards asap.

[Treldon]

So you mean something like this?

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Though with a bit fewer pends and some support card I presume


Also, is FFQ viable at all beyond Ai3?

[iancudorinmarian]

So you mean something like this?

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Though with a bit fewer pends and some support card I presume


Also, is FFQ viable at all beyond Ai3?

Don't reduce number of pends, it will slow down the deck too much.

Yeah, something like that, though you can customize it any way you like.

[rob77dp]

So you mean something like this?

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Though with a bit fewer pends and some support card I presume


Also, is FFQ viable at all beyond Ai3?

I'd humbly suggest -2 Bonds, +1 OE, +1 Pend.

[iancudorinmarian]

It might work in pvp1 as well I think.

Also, I don't think it needs 3 OE, 2 are usually enough. I think I was using 4 hopes though, but with so many bonds, you should be ok with 3 as well.

[Chapuz]

Other people like having ALL  pillars with  mark and 4 Rustlers for an extremely efficient  generation (they use the  of the fireflies) to fuel the Queens' skill and emphatic bonds

[omegareaper7]

Kinda like that,  a couple less bonds though. Also, as for decreasing the pendulums, it doesn't make the deck worse at all. I run 10 in my firefly queen deck with 4 air pillars as well and it does fine. I would personally swap 2 bonds for thunderstorm just to win mirror matches and help against scarabs.

And as for rustlers being more efficient, that only happens if you get fireflys out early, and if they don't get killed. If either of those happen, you would essentially be dead in the water. Why rely on a fragile creature when it can be done just as well by pendulums and life mark?