Help with Pharaoh deck

[Znork]

Hi,

I am battling Elders and Bronze in the Arena to win Rares. My deck is quite effective and I'm happy with that. I'm hoping to win enough rares to start a RoL/Hope deck or a CCYB - and farm Fake Gods. (or something else that is awesome).

As I said, my current deck is very good and fast - Novas, Immolaton and Phoenix (+more different cheap quantum creatures), no control cards. It's also a bit boring. When it works it work the same way every time and when it doesn't work (rarely), there is nothing I can do - no control.

I'm a newbie and I'm not done having fun with different elements, so I was thinking of making an alternate deck to mix the grinding up a bit, and thereby make the experience a bit more entertaining.

NOTE: The deck below is not ia deck I will be making. It just shows the rares I have so far + some cards I think could be interesting to use in the new deck.

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I am thinking of starting a Pharaoh deck, but I am looking for help to do so. As you see I have 4 Pharoahs and I'm hoping to win 2 more. It seems to be a quite common card.

This is to be a deck for wining rares. It doesn't have to have the potential for killing Fake Gods when upgraded and tweaked - but I wouldn't mind of course . Therefore I would like it to be quite cheap and easy to build. A lot of rares that I don't have already kinda defeats the purpose.

If you decide to be so cool as to share your ideas there are just 2 rules:
1: No (or very few) new rare cards. And certainly none that are very hard to win. - unless you are posting an idea for an FG Farming deck, I guess)
2: Not a lot of upgraded cards. I am thinking of upping the Pharoahs and maybe a few more, but 9.000-12.000 is a lot when I'm really supposed to be saving up (and I only have about 4.000 right now).

Note: I have added some cards that I think are fun and maybe also useful(?), but these do not need to be in the deck. I just like Steal for control because it makes each game different when you get diffent permanents each game + I like the tactics of stealing the right elements. I haven't played much with Golden Hourglass, but I like it when I steal it (but maybe that is not meant for a deck with Pharaohs?).



Anyway, sorry for the looong post. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Aves]

What  you're currently running sounds like a basic immo-rush.
 Pharaohs are usually found in slower decks, like stall decks- that might take getting used to. Both in that pharaohs are expensive, and that scarabs take a lot of time to become of any use, thus taking more time per win. You could either try to set up a timebow, with pharaohs/sundials/quantum pillars/hourglass, random cards from other elements for stalling, or a time-gravity duo, for usage of pharaohs.

Is there a specific direction you're looking to head into?