Swarm of the Chimera

[Shantu]

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First 2 ? ? ?s: 2 Chimeras
Last 4 ? ? ?s: 4 Time Pendulums.

It is quite easy to play: play the Pharaohs and spawn scarabs and devour anything you can. You should be able to start the scarab spam by turn 3.  Use the Precognitions to draw more and/or see the opponent's hand. Play a Chimera when you have a lot of scarabs on the field and want to make the final strike; it's also good to avoid annoying shields or to protect yourself with its gravity pull (beware reverse time!). Turtle shield and Eternity is nice for delaying the enemy. You could also use the Eternity to avoid decking out too quickly (rewind a scarab) or to save a Pharaoh from melting into a Chimera so that you can start again the scarab spam.

Please, post any feedback you have.

[icecoldbro]

nice deck but think it needs one more chimera and 1 less pharoh

[Shantu]

The main strategy is about the pharaohs and their scarabs. I like to have 6 of them because this way they are always in my starting hand and I can replace them should one die on the field.  The 2 chimeras are there only as an added funny twist,  and when I play them, I shouldn't play much else, because the enemy should be dead. Plus I don't have all that much gravity quanta, since I have only a mark and 4 pendulums, and I have to pay for the scarabs' devour too.

[zse]

Is this PVP2 or AI? Was it either, adding more Eternities can help. I use 3 E's and 1 Animate Weapon on my Time/Entropy, and those can really mess up aggro decks play, especially Adrenaline-Life.

I tried to make Pharaoh deck a while ago, and I wanted to have Anubis+SoR in it to protect Pharaohs. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find perfect balance for that deck, maybe you can think/try&find better way to utilize those in your deck. 

[Shantu]

I plan to use it in PvP, but I still have to upgrade some cards to finish the deck. A second Eternity with animate weapon looks nice (-2 precogs), but slows down a bit. Protects you from steal and such.

I tried 2 Anubis(es?) with 2 SoRs in place of the precogs. They add a bit of safety against creature control, but slow you down a lot. You need some stall to use them properly, I think.

[Shantu]

I tested the deck in the first post (almost, 2 pendulums and the precogs are unupped) in PvP, and it worked relatively okay. It has too many weaknesses and it is too slow compared to other rush decks... but the chimera is damn fun!! Fractal scarab is better than pharaohs.

Any ideas to make this faster/better without changing the base idea?