Fast Pharaohs (some rares)

[kidslayernoob]

my first deck

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This deck is vulnerable to permanents, however, unless there are six dimensional shields, the chances are reasonably low that a game deciding shield/weapon will be drawn.
I've tested it out in elder decks a couple times. It tends to win in less than 10 turns. (Even when I didn't draw any time towers with the opening draw)
Thoughts? Better deck name?


-Play all Pillars
-Play 1-2 hourglasses (1 if clogged hand)
-Draw every turn until you have a pharaoh, 1+ shards
-Play Pharaoh, use shard on pharaoh, spawn lots of scarabs
-you should power draw until maybe 10 cards left
-play first nymph whenever you get it
-use adrenaline on 3 attack creatures (everything except scarabs that are about to eat)

[silinda]

posting a strategy wouldn't hurt but it seems fairly straight forward...

get the pharaohs out, produce mass scarabs, and Adrenaline them. shards to speed up producing scarabs.

An early fireshield might hurt or any weak shield or even a no creature deck could hurt...

What would this deck be facing most often? PVP or arena? doesn't seem very good verses a FG but otherwise, a fun looking deck.

[kidslayernoob]

posting a strategy wouldn't hurt but it seems fairly straight forward...

get the pharaohs out, produce mass scarabs, and Adrenaline them. shards to speed up producing scarabs.

An early fireshield might hurt or any weak shield or even a no creature deck could hurt...

What would this deck be facing most often? PVP or arena? doesn't seem very good verses a FG but otherwise, a fun looking deck.

-I might post a strategy soon
-One fire shield would be enough to weaken the deck, but scarabs do have two ways to gain HP
-I haven't determined if this deck can face anything else with consistent good results, Also, It might be a while before I upgrade the cards to make this outside of the trainer, meaning I might not be able to use it on PVP

[silinda]

After playing with this for a little bit, I've found a few issues...

in arena, there are several ways it gets knocked around, fire shield isn't one of them if you get enough scarabs out as they keep getting bigger (and 8 hp Pharaohs is enough to keep them alive for a while). Lobos hurt though...especially if they get out quicker then you get out a pharaoh. If they get out a lobo first, dropping 2-3 pharaoh might help if you don't just scrap the game anyway.

with 30 cards, 3 hourglasses was plenty, and without an eternity, I found myself decking out too quickly to storm the opponent (remember, arena, up to 200+ hp).

Another weakness is the lack of gravity, I was running out against wennie decks or the critters were too big to eat to begin with. if you get enough scarabs out before they wear you down, it's not bad as they boost their HP on their own.

There were a few other decks that I auto-quit against, other then lobo. a pest deck that buried the pests before I got scarabs out, a fire deck that did a lot of very quick and pumpable damage, and mono-aether once the shields go up.

[furballdn]

Why not just use adrenalines instead of nymphs? They're faster to get out.

[silinda]

nymphs can keep casting it over and over again, verses just once.

[kidslayernoob]

I got my third upped pharaoh from Osiris today, so I'll begin to use it after I make 11 more upgrades.

Will edit OP with results