This is an updated version of
LightsOutAce's Nostrix porter to include market as well as a couple of small tweaks. I took LightsOutAce's version of Nostrix Porter to masters in May and June and played this version to masters in July.
The idea of the deck is to stall until you can gather
Nostrix, Lord of Visions and
Cliffside Porter and play both of them out in succession, giving you a deck full of 5/6 1 mana cards with echo. Use
Crownwatch Press-Gang to seek
Cliffside Porter or to dupe them by using
Strategize to put one on the bottom of your deck and using the Press-Gang to grab it back out, netting you one extra copy via echo.
Fall of Argenport made this combo MUCH easier with the addition of merchants and the market, allowing you to trade for whichever combo pieces you may need at the time. Another upside to the market is cards in your market aren't affected by things such as
Rain of Frogs or
In Cold Blood so even if one of these cards (that previously would have been game ending before FoA) hits you, it's not necessarily game over anymore. If you find your Porters turned into frogs, grab one out of the market with your merchant then dupe them by sending one to the bottom of your deck with
Strategize or bouncing them back and forth from your market with
Jennev Merchant.
Usually one Nostrix is plenty to give you all the gas you need, so if you find your
Nostrix, Lord of Visions being the target of
In Cold Blood don't worry, 8 or more 1 mana 5/6's will usually lock the game down for you, just remember to dupe your Porters as needed if you find yourself running low. If you have a Nostrix but all of your Porters are gone, both Press-Gang and your Merchants are good backup targets for Nostrix, buff whichever one you have more copies of in your deck at the time. 8/8's with revenge are pretty good and 8/7's with Aegis also tend to be quite hard to deal with.
Hooru Pacifier was added as a tech card against weapons and an early drop to help fend off fliers, feel free to cut it if it causes you more harm than good since the deck does run 3
Auric Runehammers as well.
The single
Lightning Strike is a bit of a wildcard as well, since there's only one you don't see it very often but when you do it's great for popping bubbles or fending off attacks in the early game, feel free to swap this out if you like or get rid of the two
Hooru Pacifiers to add more
Lightning Strike cards.
Market Cards:
Cobalt Waystone is in market to help push you up to 6 power and also to have an Aegis easily accessible in situations where you're expecting to be hit by card effects such as
In Cold Blood or
Equivocate. I find myself grabbing the Waystone out of the market the least out of the 5 cards in the market, so if you need to swap something out this should be the first thing you look at.
Vision of Austerity is the only relic hate in the deck and is at your fingertips in the market, use this to get rid of
Xenan Obelisk,
Azindel's Gift,
Crown of Possibilities,
Crystalline Chalice, relic weapons or whatever else you find cramping your style.
Channel the Tempest is an alternate win condition as sometimes you just need a little bit of reach or extra card draw. If you're not a fan of channel I'd personally rather drop the 3 channels from the deck and keep this in the market, but if you don't like it at all feel free to drop this for another card in the market.
Nostrix, Lord of Visions and
Cliffside Porter are your two main combo pieces and being able to grab either of these at will is very strong. If you have neither of your combo pieces in your hand, grab Nostrix out of your market first, you have more tools in
Crownwatch Press-Gang to grab Porters than you do Nostrix.
In conclusion:
Nostrix Porter was good before FOA and it's only gotten better with the addition of Market, it doesn't use any other Set 4 cards aside from the Merchants while also remaining fairly cheap to craft, using mostly staple Justice and Primal rares, Nostrix and optional Hooru Pacifiers as the only legendaries in the deck. Feel free to comment with any questions or suggestions, or stop by my
stream for a demonstration! I play Nostrix Porter fairly regularly and almost always while ranked grinding at the start of a new season.
Edit: didn't notice your name at first, sorry. :P