I like the idea of this deck. I actually didn't think about speeding up a flying weapon deck with shards.
Well... more specifically, not while in a duo or trio deck. I have tried it in (super)nova decks.
I have a few comments though.
you're free to post a nove version if you like though, and drawing though the deck in a few turns is NOT what it's for, you need the time to kill the oponent
If this is true, and speed drawing your deck is not your goal, then why put in SoBras with a fire mark?
You might as well stay in darkness and add a some steals if it's for the explosions, and use precogs with a time mark for drawing, and making your deck virtually smaller.
If I'd make this deck. I'd add steal, rather than explosions, and stay on darkness mark. Since you said drawing wasn't priority, I'd use nova powered sobras with non upgraded flying weapon.
Anyway, back to your original deck idea... don't you think using a fire mark and dark pends is a bit overkill on the fire production? I think just the mark would be enough to power your deck, since you don't want to over use sobras anyway. You probably won't use two in a round to begin with, right?
If early explosions were your reasoning, I'd only use two pends at most, and add more towers instead. Sobras will increase your chances to get one early enough, I'd think.
Anyway, you got me thinking about flying weapons again, which was an obsession quite a while ago. Thanks for that. lol