The Ultimate (Ft. SoI, SoW, SoFr, SoBe, SoR, SoG)

[dragonsdemesne]

None of my CL opponents had triple marks or double draws or 200 hp, which helps a lot   Seriously, though, this deck doesn't really work outside of pvp.  If I were to run it vs the AI, I'd probably do SoV/SoB/SoW to get immaterial vampiric golems.  I used SoFr instead of SoV in CL for more speed.

[furballdn]

Shard golem rushes are meant for PvP since it is able to carve out 100 damage quickly, but it quickly is outpaced as the game drags on. While I have gotten quite a bit of victories using it in gold, it's not that reliable, and the sheer amount of hp, draw, and marks that higher leagues have mean that you're at a disadvantage. Even vs regular opponents with 100hp, you have to aim for a fast win (<6) or else you'll find yourself outdamaged.

[furballdn]

Did a (bad) TTW of this deck:

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Wins: 48/50
Average TTW: 5.395833
EMs: Didn't count, but at least 5

Things of note:
TTW grew higher as I kept playing. Not sure if because my play got worse or was really lucky early on.
I probably didn't play perfectly, I made quite a few mistakes while crunching through these games.
I did misclick a few times, probably slowing down the TTW by 1 or 2 in a few games.
The most dangerous elder wasn't the one, but rather the ones with freeze, BB, mutate, and RT.
The two losses were because I took a gamble and played an unimmaterial golem only for it to get RT'd or CC'd.
Slower games were often due to CC or shields or bad opening hands.

Conclusions:
Could probably replace 1 nova for a long sword or hammer. I think that'd help speed it up a bit.
I'm actually pretty bad at playing the ultimate. Even after playing it so long. I wish OldTrees was here to tell me whether to draw or use SoFre as a permanent based on probability.
CC is evil.

[vivimancer]

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ran this deck in gold, consistently able to win (60%-70%) around 6-8 ttw.  Is only really weak against other rushes and if you can't get a golem out in the 3rd turn at the latest you're screwed, can't get your 2 SoW's in the first golem, you're probably screwed but it a great deck as is immune to Quanta denial, CC (if you get 2 SoW's), PC (after you've got your first golem out),

nice work + rep etc