[Masters] The Merriest Spire Combo

This deck breaks spire in a completely new way.
Apologies to anyone that had to endure playing against this, also 2 of my losses were to Blake... so thx Blake! :P

This list is by no means completely fine tuned. I started with a general shell that was quite successful when I first came up with the idea, that "went off" and tried to get an advantage by using shimmerpack as the main win condition. It was fine, but what I noticed is I often had 20+ power and not much to do with it, so I started exploring Sol's rest and Talir's Unwinding as the top end. For any of you MTG players out there, this would be similar to how Balance is an even card, except when it isn't, it's incredibly broken.

So what are we doing here?

Most of the time, you want to be playing Spire Shadows on your 4-5th turn. Then turn 6 would be the turn you start getting the typical Spire massive advantage. But this is where you go over the top. When you hit 7-8 power on your turn and you have a merchant, you win the game most of the time. You have a few different avenues to this, they are heavily dependent on what you are playing against and you need to always keep track of the different ways you have available to go off or get an advantage. It's easy to make an incorrect choice and I would recommend practicing a lot in gauntlet.

0 cost cards with sol's rest being returned and played again. Get extra turn with a clear board, and then either Talir's to fill your board, while the opponent shuffles all their cards away or Accelerated impact for lethal. Not the only way to win, but by far the most common. Against aggro, you can win by just being a Merriest Mandrake deck. After Spire, Merriest Mandrake drawing costs almost 0 power, so you can get an advantage very quickly, and gunk up the board. Sometimes, your opponent taps out and you just merchant for Accelerated Impact. Impact does almost what Shimmerpack did but for 2 power, often giving everything somewhere between +3/+3 to +5/+5.

Common Mistakes
It's tempting to park a full cost Explorer Emeritus in the market, but try to keep it so that you can start drawing extra cards after Spire.

You don't need to block, if you are not playing against an aggressive deck. You gain a lot of life throughout a game, so if you need to air on preserving your creatures over your life, that can be a better strategy.

Play your 1cc units in a way that you can market on 3 power.


Happy Playing!


Edit:
Updated to the latest list. Shimmerpack is back in, but this time in the main deck. Not sure why I missed that it becomes a 4cc 8/4 pump before. Also tried versions with Eager Offering, mostly so that I can also run some number of Common Cause, but It was not a great draw after Spire was played.

Edit 2:
Leaned more into Shimmerpack because the 8/4 pump has been very good. I moved the merchant numbers around for consistency reasons, but i'm not sure if that is completely right.

Edit 3:
Likely the last edit for this deck, post Distillation nerf.