You have the exactly same idea as me.
But this deck really don't need any pillar. Every Ray of Light is equivalent to two Emerald Pillars.
Mark of Life just to give the quanta to the fisrt Leaf Dragon and nothing more.
Also 2~3 Hopes and 2~3 Leaf Dragons is enough if you made a 30-card deck.
I was testing this with Improved Heals instead of Miracles since with Miracles alone you don't get EM. And a couple of dragons as some tough hitters.
I got some pretty good results, but the deck could be improved.
I actually have tried using without any emerald pillars. 50% of the time I got little chance to maintain the leaf dragons long enough to use em to no chance in drawing them. Even with epinephrine it's way too slow. So the emerald pillars helped a lot.
I got rid of heal and opted for miracles instead, because I'm also trying out feral bond and some shards in.
Hmm... I did consider the golden dragons but I opted to use horned frogs instead because they are cheaper to cast and because I can spam epinephrine on them aswell
Frog + Luciferase + epinephrine = 12 DMG + 4 Light Quanta.
which is greater than what golden dragon can achieve with the same combo
I also tried something like this. Archangels are kinda nice, though they don't have much synergy with other cards.(exept their casting cost and doing damage)
Personally I think it shouldn't rely too much on getting leaf dragon. I like to think this sort of deck has potential.
I agree. leaf dragons tends to get bounced or killed or frozen etc... so the emerald pillars helps for a backup plan. ^_^
I did try archangels but they are a bit slow ^_^"""