The game is a bit more complex then less cards = more likely you draw the card you need.
Although in the unupgraded land a 30 card mono deck is very fast, there is a lot more to it.
First, there are two pressures not just one pressure to speed.
1.) Is the deck odds, but 2.) is the electrum needed and cast cost of cards.
Second, there is a mulligan that changes the odds of the first draw.
Third, there are cards that effect both, time and electrum, thus effecting the odds of a card in play drastically.
This obviously changes deck dynamics, being able to draw 3 or 4 cards, drastically changes odds of a deck
Fourth, you can deck out and so smaller is only better if you can get a quick kill in.
To make the point, I decided to throw together a 0 real thought 40 card unupped/ norare except a single weapon as if per quest bow deck just for this thread...
So I selected 6 novas, some quantum pillars and then proceeded to just select various cards that cost very little that might make something come together, tossed in a fractal and tried it out. I did 10 games against AI3, 0 were EM, 4 easy wins, 3 were close wins, 2
deck out where close to deck out wins, and 1 loss ... not too shabby, wouldn't hold against a mono poison death deck, but could probably beat mono frog deck or mono fire depending or draw order of both parties.
Here is is, play with it from there OP
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