Phase Shriekers

[Xinef]

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Strategy is simple:
- stall with phase shields
- granite skin when you have > 50 or if you would need to discard otherwise
- fractal shriekers (preferably after gathering >50 and using all granite skins)

A simple fun deck that often gives rewards slightly higher than a typical EM but if you somehow manage to win without losing a single HP the reward might be quite nice actually. Of course it's much slower than a standard shrieker rush, so it's more for fun rather than for quick electrum though.
Against momentum creatures and steals/deflags granite skin might be enough to secure a win.
Getting shrieker as the last card might be a problem, but I'm not sure if adding another shrieker to the deck would help... you do not want to play them too early because of granite skins, so most of the time it would only clutter your hand even more.
EDIT: One tower replaced with a shrieker.
EDIT 2: 1 SoG added

Somehow when I designed this deck I thought... lurkers with plasma shields? Infested Protoss! But I guess not everybody here knows StarCraft so I stayed with a more Elementarish name for the deck.



3 miracles and 2 granite skins later:



Reward: 45 electrum

[Scaredgirl]

You should take 2 Shriekers. Otherwise it's an automatic loss if your single Shrieker is at the bottom of the deck.

Other than that, I like this idea.

[Essence]

+1 SoG for a much higher chance at EM?

[Xinef]

Yeah, sometimes the damage that goes through is too high to heal back, especially if your phase shield chain has a 'hole in the middle' but could help and I guess (at least in PvP) going for 31 cards might be a good idea because you can sometimes simply deck your opponent out.
Also if they have deflags they will usually go for shields, so SoG is pretty much safe.