Pharaoh is even weaker than Anubis at 3 attack, and 1 more cost. So it's between generating Scarabs or playing Deja Vu's for cannon fodder and dragons for damage, and both require stalling. The fastest monotime uses Precogs and Dragons, but it's still slow and also brittle to boot. 'Course, there's no one saying every element has to be able to rush competently. I would just enjoy if it could.