Ok... stunning all enemy creatures at once has it's advantages, but with permafrost I can wait until most of them are frozen and it's the same... but also blocks 2 damage from each.
I prefer fog shield and permafrost because they offer protection against weapons and against creatures the turn they are played (good against gods using PU), so you should never be hit with 'over 9000' damage at once...
I guess with this amount of time towers and quantum pillars it's equally easy to pay for pharaoh as it is to pay for mummy, but the obvious advantage of pharaoh is that you do not have to waste a rewind... so mummy being last card in the deck is a huge problem, but with pharaoh it is not, as you only need to bump something once. Basically if you have a pharaoh, use it, if you don't don't worry, it's not that much of a difference. Also with a pharaoh you can add plague or a bonewall.
Also, I really recommend at least 2 eternities, it's really important against growing creatures, buffed creatures, momentum... and it slows FG down so much, the earlier you start the better... especially because if you start it early enough FG will still have little pillars, so halving his rate of drawing additional pillars while making him pay for some expensive creature each turn really drains his quantum. I especially like rewinding a mark-payed creature like Elidnis's spectre, so she gets as much
as she pays each turn, so she cannot play
cards and they clutter her hand, so when she has 7 cards in her hand she draws only a single card each turn, which I rewind, so it's a complete deadlock... it's also possible with some other gods.
And, when I'm going for an early eternity, I also want an early PA just in case. I guess both 2 an 3 are reasonable options, but I still prefer 3. It's not a card that clutters your hand.
I also love the strategy with rewinding scarabs to your hand, especially against those nasty Maxwells, fire shields, eagle eyes... but against otys it's just too much waiting
@wisemage
Mine deck has 48 cards, yaladilae's even less, and I usually start playing creatures when I have about 8 cards left in deck, sometimes even later, so it's not a problem. It's a stall deck with a late-game combo if you did not notice. Also though it fits the definition of rainbow, using cards from more than three elements, I would not call it a rainbow, but rather a half-time/half-rainbow.
Hmm... I tried to join some of your suggestions and it seems to work better...
Two mummies, two bonds and two fog shields... also momentum dropped, because now with one more pharaoh I quint the first one, let FG waste offensive spells on the first few sacarbs, then I can play the second one unquinted and rewind him when playing against fire bucklers... luckily thorn carapaces and turtle shields are 'not very common amongst FG' and permafrosts are less harmful when playing two pharaohs.
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And I just had two of the strangest FG battles I ever fought... one was against Scorpio, when he managed to poison me only for 3 points before I beat him (no chrysoaras and I managed to play permafrost before he played a single puffer xD... he only played a single squid and a few ulitharids)... and the second battle was against Octane when I played an early quinted butterflied gravy... and then I played an unquinted pharaoh... and he managed to kill all my scarabs while I was bumping the pharaoh to keep him alive... and the second mummy somehow happened to be the last card... so I had to bump pharaoh until I decked him out xD
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http://www.screenshotdumpster.com/view/m7Gbd57767/Scorpio)
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http://www.screenshotdumpster.com/view/m7Gbd57766/Octane)
