4F Echo Revenge

Intro
This is a combo deck that uses Echo + Revenge synergy. Although people often refer to it as "Echo Makto", we don't need necessarly have to close the game by having a board full of echo Inquisitor Makto: sometimes we will just give echo to Piercing Grief or Stonepowder Alchemist and aggressively Dark Return and Rise to the Challenge for it, which results in a lot of card draw, life gain and damage.

Matchups
This is a fun deck to play and if piloted correctly it can be competitive in a lot of matchups.
* Aggro: This is possibly the worst matchup for us, because we don't run much interaction before turn 3. We want to stay alive as much as possible with Piercing Grief until we can Harsh Rule. Most of the time we don't have time to use Rise of the Challenge on Elysian Pathfinder or even Inquisitor Makto: we need to focus on removal and gaining life.
* Midrange: This is an OK matchup. We have a lot of answers for their early fatties and we need to balance our time between removing them, gaining life and setup our combos. In this matchup it's critical to use our life total as a resource: sometimes we will need to eat some damage so that we can play cards like Elysian Pathfinder on five.
* Control: This is where the deck shines. Most of the control decks generates card advantage with tools like Wisdom of the Elders, Auric Runehammer, Crystalline Chalice etc.. Once we get our combo going we outvalue them a lot, until a point where they just can't win. If you are familiar with math, this matchup feels like linear growth (them) vs exponential growth (us).

Influence
When people look at a 4F deck they think it's a meme deck: quirky, inconsistent and with an influence requirement that is difficult to hit. This is far from the truth for this deck.
The influence requirement is FJJSST, which is sometimes you won't hit on five, but it's OK: we'll very unlikely have a hand full of cards we can't cast. We aim to hit FJST before Turn 5 and really only need JJ for Harsh Rule and SS for Inquisitor Makto.
We run 25 Power + 4 Seek Power + 2 Find the way. In addition to that we have 4 Quarry that can help us fetch what we need, and if a destiny unit is in the void we can always use Dark Return as a cantrip.

General notes
If one of your units with Revenge dies it should come back fast enough via Devour, Quarry and Rise to the Challenge. If the unit is in the discard pile it can be fetched via Dark Return instead. Since the unit will have Destiny it means that regardless how you fetched it, you will draw one card. If the unit has Echo, you will play two units and draw two additional cards instead.
Be aware that if you decide to play Piercing Grief and Devour it in the same turn there is a 20% chance that it comes back immidiatly and we have a loss of value.
It's very important to know that if we cast Elysian Pathfinder and the top unit of our deck has echo then the next non-echo unit will receive it instead, so we don't really need to be conservative with playing the card.

This deck is not particularly easy to play, given the big amount of decisions you have to make. You can missplay a lot by Quarry or Rise to the Challenge the wrong cards, or even waste Dark Return early. For example, if you are not under much pressure, you should focus on finding Elysian Pathfinder as early as possible, instead of Rise to the Challenge for a Makto. Additionaly when possible you want to save Dark Return to bring back an echo destiny unit, to either gain significant card draws or just close the game.

Our archenemies
Steward of the Past and Statuary Maiden can be a problem, but we can deal with them via 4 Slay, 4 Harsh Rule, 4 Banish and 2 Vara's Choice.
Silence is annoying, but if they waste it too early they will never have enough of it to deal with our echo units. In some matchups you want to have 2 power open for Devour in order to preventt their silence to happen.

Changelog
* v0.1: Cut Inspire for more power via Vara's Favour and fix mana base in favour of time and fire
* v0.2: Cut Scheme for Banish (more answers to big early fatties, Steward of the Past, Statuary Maiden, nasty relics) and fix mana base in favour of time.
* v0.3: Cut Suffocate for more Banish (we found it more flexible and we don't mind going deeper into time now), cut one Dark Return (a lot of copies early can get clunky) and one Inquisitor Makto for two copies of Vara's Choice for early interaction, a way to deal with Dawnwalker and additional answer to Steward of the Past + Statuary Maiden. Now that we are deeper into time we replace 2 Vara's Favour with 2 Find the Way to improve fixing. Mana base fixed in favour of time.
* v0.3.1: Decrease the amount of seats in the deck from 18 to 16.

Cards that didn't make the cut
This is a list of cards that didn't make the cut but could be potentially considered:
* Dark Wisp: Synergizes with Devour and stops 2-1 units early. Unfortunately we do not like when this card gets Echo, so we'd rather not play it.
* Annihilate: Deals with Steward of the Past and midrange beatdown like Sandstorm Titan,Impending Doom and Crimson Firemaw. We prefer Banish and Suffocate because they can hit both Statuary Maiden and Steward of the Past/
* Hero of the People: Synergyzes with Piercing Grief and can get their revenge refreshed after they come back with destiny. I tried it and I was very disappointed by it. It requires you hold back your Piercing Grief and play both of them on turn 5, but there are already a lot of cards you want to play on turn 5 anyway.
* Protect: A good way to deal with Silence, but we prefer 4 Devour instead as we don't usually care too much if a unit dies.
* Torch: Excellent early removal, but we can't realiably have fire influence in the first turns. It synergizes well with Piercing Grief because if they have a blocker that won't die to them it will most likely be finished by this removal. It also helps a ton vs the Aggro matchup and give us some form of reach, so I might try it out at some point.
* Sleepless Night: Costs too much, we prefer to rely on less expensive cards that help us fetching Destiny units and drawing cards. Our combos also draws us a bunch of cards, so we don't really need more card draw once we get the combo running.
* Excavate: Recommended by flippyflop. It could potentially replace Scheme and act as Dark Return number 5 and 6 that could help us close games with recurring Piercing Grief. After a some extensive testing I decided to not include this card in the deck.
* Watchwing Conscript: Recommended by flippyflop. This is an interesting card, but I don't think there is space for it in the deck at the moment as we don't really want more units, expecially big ones. It could replace Inquisitor Makto if you don't own four copies of it.
* Scheme: This was included as a 2 of in the original list. It's an excellent way to bring back your destiny units or just fetch for power and Pathfinder early in the game. After some testing I decided to replace it with Banish, a card that helps us against Steward of the Past, Statuary Maiden, Relics like Crystalline Chalice and big fatties like Sandstorm Titan and Impending Doom. At some point I'd still like to find space for 2 copies of this card.
* Purify: We can't relay on FT early, so we prefer Vara's Choice here.
* Vara's Favor: It can help with early 1 drops and it can remove Aegis. Since we are deeper into Time we prefer Find the Way instead, to give us more fixing flexibility.
* Plague: It could help us a ton vs aggro and it give us more answer to pre obelisk dawnwalkers. We don't have a board early game, so even slow decks like Chalice can start a beatdown with a lot of small units. This card can help us reduce the opponent clock in these circumstances, until we find our Harsh Rule or get our combos going. I will begin testing this card soon.