Flying Hope {Light|Air}

[funplay]

Funplay, step ahead of you

dont get it, but still nice to know 

Firefly Queens generate fireflies with life. Pendulums offer light/air, for each turn. So I basically get loads of fireflies, fromt he queens.

you mean life/air, i assume?

The fireflies ARE the additional punch. The purpose of the deck is having a steady damage source (Firflies are 3|2. queens 3|7), and a nice backup. Hope will basically make any creature ont he other side useless, unless it's a crappy chimera or mutated. Eaven then, the fireflies will be loads.

yeah, already knew that...but as TII mentioned, your biggest attacker has att 3...shields must be a major nuisance to you

I still dont understand the need of light pillars...but well, as long you have fun with that deck, everything is fine

I think 4 sykblitz is a bit much...2-3 would be enough for me...but i havent tested the quanta balance of the deck...

If you have an updated version with bonds, you might present that?

[Flash fire]

It has potential to be good, even a FG grinder, however if you want to be better take out sky pillars, instead add SOR, then put 2 more hope, 2-3 sky blitz, no pends only towers, ect ect ect

[funplay]

As i was wondering, if my comments might have been off, i tested the latest variant (with skyblitz)...and was disappointed.

Could you please explain what you meant by "does exceptionally well against L3s"?

I only played a few games and maybe i had bad luck...but this build was quite slow and had a loss rate of about 50%!

There are son many elders that really pose a serious threat to this deck...

aether, as you have no way of bypassing the dim shields
osiris jr, as the scarabs eat the fireflies, procastination also hurts a lot
pandadoll, the pandemoniums really hurt
firequeen jr., as an enemy hope kills you -> deckout
mono gravity -> otyughs, lets hope for a schockwave...

I have decided to make it half air pillars. Gonna test it in a moment.

GOOD THING! The deck had WAY too much life quanta...and you really need to try to get 2 OEs, to cope much better with enemies creatures...

And you REALLY can remove those light pillars...i really had a couple of games where i played a Hope...but lacked the air quanta to even play a single queen...i also tested an alternative, faster, more stable, more agressive

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There are only 2 hopes, cause by the time you can play them (turn 8 or so), the game is already won That build is a bit short on life quanta, so i would need some additional tweaking

@flash fire: I REALLY doubt this! With so little CC and PC...no real chance. Please support your opion with some facts.

[Alloran]

I had been playing with an Air/Time deck for a really long time, and it was an interesting deck, but it would lose to the L3s half the time. I had enough money to build the deck you (funplay) recommended above, but made some modifications based on where I was coming from.

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To wit, I had an Owl's Eye so I figured I could do away with one of the Shockwaves, and I added an Empathic Bond and a Green Nymph. Over the course of many games, I haven't really been able to utilize the Nymph. Should I get rid of her? Before I had her, I had a few games where I had greens & nothing to do with them. Also, is there a perk to keeping the deck to exactly 30 cards? Greater knowledge of what's coming?

It's done exceptionally well against the Top 50's so far, over 70% win. Haven't beaten a L5 yet, though.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

^^ get rid of the short bows...

[funplay]

glad me ideas were useful...and im quite surprised, that you do well against T50. I didnt expect the deck to fast enough...fine

Concerning the 30 cards youre right: the fewer cards you have in your deck, the higher the chance that you draw whats needed...e.g. you really want to play a firefly queen asap...30 cards mean: 6/30 chance to have one -> 1/5...going up to 36 e.g. would "only" mean 1/6...

Going a bit above 30 is not absolutely awful in most cases (in run some 31-35 card decks)...but you always have to consider if the cards you additionally put in are really worth it.

Lets take a look at your short bows: with 3 weapons you have 3/32 chance to draw a weapon...but only 1/32 the weapon you really like to have...for the number of copies of a card you want to have in your deck this topic might be helpful: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20069.0.html

I agree that the shortbows can be removed (maybe keep 1...but better to replace with second OE once you have one )

Green nymph is probably not needed...but i would have to test that myself...if you really have that much excess life quanta i would consider switching a pend vs. a wind pillar...or maybe adding an emerald dragon?