what upgraded cards do I start with?

[hermantheowl]

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[hermantheowl]

The bare minimum for a generic rainbow anti FG in my opinion is 7 cards:

2x Elite Oty, 3x Electrum Hourglass, 2x SoG

The bare minimum for RoL-Hope in my opinion is 12 cards:

6x RoL, 4x  Tower, 2x SoG

The thing is, the win% for RoL-Hope after you have those goes up much faster with each upgrade, whereas it's a pretty gradual increase for rainbows. Keep grinding AI5 and T50 for electrum for the time being.

What would a generic rainbow anti FG look like?

[Essence]

You can totally start pwning FGs with 2 Rares and 2 Upgrades. (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5656.0.html)

Use that to defeat enough FGs to buy 6x RoL and 2x SoG and switch over to RoL/Hope.

[hermantheowl]

What is the minimum upgrades for ROl Hope?

The bare minimum for a generic rainbow anti FG in my opinion is 7 cards:

2x Elite Oty, 3x Electrum Hourglass, 2x SoG

The bare minimum for RoL-Hope in my opinion is 12 cards:

6x RoL, 4x  Tower, 2x SoG

The thing is, the win% for RoL-Hope after you have those goes up much faster with each upgrade, whereas it's a pretty gradual increase for rainbows. Keep grinding AI5 and T50 for electrum for the time being.

What would a generic rainbow anti FG look like?

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Or you can go with a different false-god grinding deck. Any non-rainbow will net a lower win rate, but will almost always win in much less time and with less headache (fewer choices, less thinking, games take 2-3 minutes, not 5+). An example is the ray of light-fractal-hope deck, which requires at least 5 (I started with 6) shards of gratitude and 6 rays of light upgraded. Here's the version I'm using right now:
-finkel

do I need to upgrade any pillars to start and do I need 5 SOG's to start?

[hermantheowl]

do I switch over to ROL hope before or after I upgrade some pillars to towers. I think I can get 6 ROL and have 4 SOGs avaiable

[BloodAngel]

do I switch over to ROL hope before or after I upgrade some pillars to towers. I think I can get 6 ROL and have 4 SOGs avaiable

You can change if you wish
The RoL is neccesary for sure, and the SoG increase your winning percentage against alot of FG's.
Also, if you upgrade your fractal you can cast them earlier, which can make a difference sometimes, but thats not neccesary, neither are the pillars, you can start with those unupped and just work towards an upped RoL/Hope deck.

[hermantheowl]

Do I upgrade pillars or fractals first?

[BloodAngel]

i'd say fractal must be upped first.
then you can always try the pillars if you have money enough.