Never thought a a Pharao deck would do so good

[Poker Alho]

the chimeras could be powered off of the mark alone, unless you think you will play it in the first 6 turns of the match...

Not really, SoRs tends to drain your quanta, and many times i've had to devour 15+ opponent's creatures... gravity quanta is definitely needed!

usually i use SoR on one scarab to nom even faster and to not use  but yeah you're right

[TheManuz]

the chimeras could be powered off of the mark alone, unless you think you will play it in the first 6 turns of the match...

Not really, SoRs tends to drain your quanta, and many times i've had to devour 15+ opponent's creatures... gravity quanta is definitely needed!

usually i use SoR on one scarab to nom even faster and to not use  but yeah you're right

That's playing style, i guess!
I prefer to use every SoR on Pharaohs to spawn more scarabs as faster is possible, so they grow and can devour more and are almost impossible to kill.

[fsk]

It depends on the opponent.  Sometimes, you need to pump out as many scarabs as you can.  Sometimes, you need to eat their creatures.

[Drake_XIV]

Or, you know, could do both.

[McSod]

The addition of a couple SoF's is a pretty good step. As effective as jus' spamming scarabs can be (and usually IS), a bit of PC rounds out the deck pretty well.

An' on the SoR'ing of Scarabs vs. Pharaohs, it really is situational. Apples an' oranges, all the way.

[fsk]

My favorite trick is rewinding the SoF so I can reuse it.

[McSod]

I don't usually bother with the rewinds, m'self. Don't think the deck needs that much more PC to warrant adding 'em just for the shards, an' the scarabs already cover CC well enough to not need 'em 'for critters.

I'm currently doin' up the stats in Gold arena, for my current tweak on this 'un. Will make a thread when I finish, as it's pretty far removed from the deck originally posted in this thread. :p

[Elite arbiter]

Lately I've been using a minor variation on the deck that depends on SoFr rather than SoFo. It increases damage by ~15% (technically 16.66% damage on scarabs, but you've got a few scarabs mixed in.) Most walls lately generally do not have many PC cards, and the decks that do usually don't have enough damage so that you can let them waste most of their PC on your towers. So this functions effectively enough to get through most soft stalls, since with both of them on your field at once even through a Dim Shield you get...
100% (Normal Chimera)

50% hit through the shield, but these have +66.66% damage, so on average you get 83.33% damage through the Dim Shield every turn. Which is helpful 'enough' to break the stalls. (x2 SoFr)

Also, minor benefits, like less freezing on Ice Shields, and staggering your Scarabs on Procrastinations so that you can devour on any turn you like rather than having all your scarabs delayed at the same time without fancy card-playing footwork.

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TL;DR: Shards of Freedom cost less/easier quanta, get the majority of the damage you would otherwise want out of a chimera, and have function outside stallbreaking as extra damage compounders against any non-PC heavy deck.

[TheManuz]

Lately I've been using a minor variation on the deck that depends on SoFr rather than SoFo. It increases damage by ~15% (technically 16.66% damage on scarabs, but you've got a few scarabs mixed in.) Most walls lately generally do not have many PC cards, and the decks that do usually don't have enough damage so that you can let them waste most of their PC on your towers. So this functions effectively enough to get through most soft stalls, since with both of them on your field at once even through a Dim Shield you get...
100% (Normal Chimera)

50% hit through the shield, but these have +66.66% damage, so on average you get 83.33% damage through the Dim Shield every turn. Which is helpful 'enough' to break the stalls. (x2 SoFr)

Also, minor benefits, like less freezing on Ice Shields, and staggering your Scarabs on Procrastinations so that you can devour on any turn you like rather than having all your scarabs delayed at the same time without fancy card-playing footwork.

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TL;DR: Shards of Freedom cost less/easier quanta, get the majority of the damage you would otherwise want out of a chimera, and have function outside stallbreaking as extra damage compounders against any non-PC heavy deck.

I'm trying it right now and it seems more stable than the version with Chimera (i was using that!)
However, since i own only 1 shard of Freedom, i took a shard of Patience as a second shard, i think it's useful against sacrifice decks.