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Mono life deck help! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg339486#msg339486
« on: May 24, 2011, 09:00:12 am »
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Need help with this deck, trying to get my dragons out even faster! but if i lose my rustler in the beginning due to devour, fire sheild, or poison then the WHOLE idea of the deck is down.
i want to keep it mono Life but i don't know if i should upgrade the cards or what. looking to farm AI 5, right now i only win about 30% of the time.

any ideas on how to help this deck?

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Re: any ideas to speed my deck up? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg339504#msg339504
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 11:23:20 am »
solar buckler? I wouldn't focus on making it faster, I'd focus on stalling longer..

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Re: any ideas to speed my deck up? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg339506#msg339506
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2011, 11:28:42 am »
solar buckler? I wouldn't focus on making it faster, I'd focus on stalling longer..
i tried it before, didn't work too well

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Re: Mono life deck help! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg339828#msg339828
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2011, 10:40:00 pm »
Mono life is just not a AI5 deck.
I personally like this variant of that deck:
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Re: Mono life deck help! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg339851#msg339851
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2011, 11:13:08 pm »
The only way you'll get your Rustler to survive is to give the enemy something else to destroy along the way.  Though it looks (and is) a bit zany, this deck can take on AI5 with about a 45-50% winrate.

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It goes like this: Nova. Nova. Rustler. Deja Vu/Ash Eater/Lycanthrope.  Adrenaline. (Split Deja Vu or activate Lycanthrope if necessary).  Luciferine.

And there you have 8 damage and 4 light quanta (or 12 damage and 3 light quanta if it's a Lycanthrope) a turn while showing up with a much greater threat than your lowly Rustler, meaning CC will be redirected at the other little dude instead -- and you're making fantastic quantities of Light quanta turn into Life quanta each turn.  I'd try to squeeze in an Empathic Bond or a Sanctuary or three somewhere if you're really serious though -- it's damn hard to take on HBs with no healing at all. :)
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Re: Mono life deck help! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg372109#msg372109
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2011, 05:50:17 am »
The rustler deck is an old favorite of mine.  Rustler's effect is one of the most powerful quanta generation effects in the game, but it has the drawback of being a very a very fragile card.  Luckily there are several ways to deal with the fragility of rustler.  You can go a more rainbow direction and add more targets, but that will dilute the pool of light quanta available.  I much prefer a second method: buffing the rustler.  Thankfully with a life/light build it is very easy to get buffs in the form of blessing.  Yes, using a blessing will use the equivalent of 6 life quanta when you factor in the rustler conversion, but it is worth it to keep the rustler on the play field; without the rustler, the deck is dead.

Now lets talk deck symantics.  You will want the deck to be 30 cards to have your best chance at drawing the cards you need to make the combo work.  For a deck like this a 10 light pillar base is generally standard.  Without buffs, you want 6 rustlers to make sure you always have 1, but extra rustlers are redundant and waste a slot.  Here 4 should be enough to ensure you have 1, but not too many so that they set in your hand wasted.  With mitosis, 6 dragons is overkill, we'll lower that to 5 to make some room.  We'll lower Mitosis to 3 as it fits a more support role for extra damage. with our 8 remaining spots we will go with 4 blessing for buffing the rustlers and 4 heals to give the deck more staying power in a longer fight.

Hope this is helpful.

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Re: Mono life deck help! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg376636#msg376636
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2011, 02:41:48 am »
solar buckler? I wouldn't focus on making it faster, I'd focus on stalling longer..
try in stead using mitosis on rays of light with a hope to protect you late game you can mitosis dragons

here is what i have tried
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its compleatly untested but i had a bit of fun with it

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Re: Mono life deck help! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg376646#msg376646
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2011, 03:04:53 am »
well cut back on some light towers and ass solar shield and add a wepon

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Re: Mono life deck help! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26719.msg378398#msg378398
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2011, 07:07:07 am »
what i had was an untested idea do what you want to do with it but i agree that would be a good modification

but i think a hope is better than a solar shield

 

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