Fireflies and Hope

[Thelonesun]

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I was browsing through the shop one day... doop de doop de doop... came across Hope. Then I thought of the Firefly Queen > Firefly > Rustler cycle and thought that it would work almost godly together with it.

[Baily18]

-2 Guardian angels, -4shockwaves(not much can get through your shields once you have enough fireflies) and -2pillars?
It should run smoother with less cards

[twinsbuster]

you should cut the deck into 30 cards as you only have 3 hopes
you don't need miracle as you have the bonds
also you can cut 1-2 leaf dragon
out the eagle's eye and animate weapon

[finkel]

NINJA'D!

I don't think the staff is really a good idea, since the empathetic bonds should do all the healing your heart desires. That 5 heal per turn will very rarely save you if the bonds aren't going to (i.e.: if you're late setting up and are getting beaten down)


I'd take owl/eagle's eyes instead of all those shockwaves. It's like shockwave on a stick ^_^
You really only need 5 FFQs. You'll almost always only play 2-3 throughout the game, sinec by the time you draw the fouth and can play it, you're almost full of fireflies. It just runs smoother with 5. For shields, I just take 3-4 emerald dragons. Lets me get past most of them well enough to guarantee victory. Alternatively, if you have light dragons, those are ideal, though I prefer emerald for this deck sinec if I get destroyed early on by having my rusters/FFQs killed, mutated, lobotomized, or stalled (procrastination shield, basilisk blood), I may still be able to convert enough into to play a dragon or two and out-rush my opponent.

I posted on a previous thread about an almost identical deck
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,7289.0.html (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,7289.0.html)
you can look there for more suggestions/ideas.

[Thelonesun]

Upped 2 rustlers. Not worth doing an entire deck repost for that, but just saying.

[Thelonesun]

I'm thinking of upping one of the FFQs so their fireflies produce  so I can use explosion to take care of those shields. It reduces the efficiency of the deck to a degree though..

[finkel]

Don't. It drops the consistency, since oftentimes you'll have nothing but elite fireflies and your hope shield will go up too late, and, well, find another way if you must have perm destruction. There are a LOT of options. It sounds good on paper to have 1-2 elite FFQ's to produce your precious fire quanta, but consider that they're not going to help your hope or production at all, so you might as well just take a few fire pillars and some deflags and push the deck a little over 30 cards.

Both of those two decks you put in your last post look sound to me.

Nice job!