Yeah, all of them besides Rustler (Which doesn't work due to needing either life pillars and a light mark of RoL/Light pillars) and Cremate are much too slow, it's like playing with 6 towers in your deck.
To people, I did have an unfair advantage. The simple fact that other people were resticted to mono made shrieker rush the fastest deck, QS sent everything sprawling due to no PAs allowed for anyone else, and I can make shields obsolete. Although, I'm not sure how it would have turned out if Blood/Kami had made it past the first round. Devourers=Death. Cremates=Too fast (Although you can't use rays, so you get a 1 turn delay with your brimstones.
Also, the fact that I could burrow creatures makes control less effective, up to the point when Puppy didn't even use any.
Face it, Earth has the protection monopoly, as well as the offensive monopoly. Now all we need is a spell to burrow things...