Fireflies Need Miracles, Too! [trio][Life][Light][Air][ununpped][FUN]

[Pella]

Fireflies Need Miracles, Too!   by Pella

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Play is straightforward.  Get the Queens out as soon as you can.  Use a Rustler to make up any shortfall in .  Use the Fireflies to fuel Hope and the Miracles.

The Elements Game Simulator says the deck has a winrate of 67.6% with a TTW of ~12.
The deck has too many weaknesses to be competitive.  All the creatures are small, it has no CC or PC, and it's not all that fast because of slowish production.  Still, it's a fun deck to play.  Use it when you have nothing else to do and you want/need to put a smile on your face. 

[omegareaper7]

4 hopes is going to lead to quite a few dead draws, and i think with the rustlers you can fit in more life cards then just them. Queens don't eat up THAT much life quanta.

[Pella]

I've observed the dead draws with the Hopes, but I also want to make sure I have one.  And production is WAY too slow to get the Queens out in timely fashion.

Maybe?
-1 Hope
-1 Rustler
+2 Wind Pillar

[wiseinsrq]

Hey Pella,

I've been running a Firefly deck for a while this is what my deck looks like these days:

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It is obviously upped, but I worked the Hope angle for a long time...eventually it has morphed into a speed deck and it performs well for me now.

Bottom line; the Firefly Queen is the linchpin of the deck so you have to make sure you have enough

[Chapuz]

fireflies are suposed to generate enough quanta for the miracles, so focus in the air and life quanta generation!

[Pella]

Good call, Chapuz. I put the Light Pends in there to help fuel initial Firefly generation (via the Rustlers) and to maybe put out an early Hope. On the other hand, Hope is useless with Flies, anyway. If I beef up the and generation and let the Flies do all the work for , it should at least be faster. My only issue then would be needing a Miracle before my Flies are in place, but if that's the case, the duel is probably a loss, anyway. LOL


EDIT:  This was my 200th post on the E:tG forums.  So end the days of the first Jr. Member staffer.
Oh, and I made this post remotely.  Long live Tapatalk!

[omegareaper7]

Hey Pella,

I've been running a Firefly deck for a while this is what my deck looks like these days:

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5oj 5oj 5oj 5oj 5oj 5oj 5op 5op 5pa 5pa 5pa 5pa 7af 7af 7af 7af 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 8pn

It is obviously upped, but I worked the Hope angle for a long time...eventually it has morphed into a speed deck and it performs well for me now.

Bottom line; the Firefly Queen is the linchpin of the deck so you have to make sure you have enough

This just converts it to a almost normal fire fly queen deck and gets the queens out slower. Along with no end game healing or damage protection.

I've observed the dead draws with the Hopes, but I also want to make sure I have one.  And production is WAY too slow to get the Queens out in timely fashion.

Maybe?
-1 Hope
-1 Rustler
+2 Wind Pillar

Yes.