A little experimenting with merchant lists. Not sure if merchant is the way yet, however, since more strangers i.e.
Mask Maker or more burn spells could play out more consistently. Scout is nice, but again, not sure if depleted early game power is consistent enough and scout really only reaches for your nukes and merchants late game. Another variation is replacing main deck
Factory Quota with
Groundbreaker.
Testing at gold rank. Does well against slow decks.
Edit 11/03/2018: quota wasn't doing enough, flame blast was underwhelming in market, standard (while aggrocentric) is depleted and not as good early, we have 5 colors by 5 power most of the time so trying out
Triumphant Stranger.
Edit 11/26/2018: quota feels bad to top deck when mana screwed, so i'm running 1x groundbreaker in main and a quota in market to mix up removal. Crest, while nice for late lucky draws, are horrible sub 5 power and easily the worst draw in the deck, so i've removed all and instead run 2 of each monument and standard and a bunch more sigils. This makes flameblast a ton better and triumphant pointless so subbed one for one in market.
considering a marketless list running mask maker for more aggro synergy.