4f Temporal/OTK Combo

Hello friends, this is my take at a temporal deck utilizing it's standard insane amounts of card draw and sweepers into a Moment of Creation one turn kill.

The combo is as follows:
1. Pull Temporal Distortion from your market
2. Make sure you have lots of board clears and draw in your hand post Temporal
3. Draw most of your deck out, make sure you have face aegis up to avoid disruption/dying
4. Once you've drawing out most of your deck, the ideal hand will include a sweeper, a merchant, and any card that can be marketed away
5. Wait until they're not holding up mana/have aegis units that you can't deal with.
6. On their turn, play your sweeper to kill their board, then play Moment of Creation to create two 30/30s.
7. Because you played Moment of Creation on their turn, they will be able to attack immediately. Swing in for lethal.

Some variations include not doing the combo until you can play a great parliament with the MoC, in case they have more than 60 HP. Waiting for them to stop holding up mana is incredibly important as defiance can ruin the combo, as well as counterspells. In general, it's fairly easy to bait out either them not holding up mana, or them using their market counterspell on a Great Parliament.

Variations in deck could be moving a passage of eons to the market over Cirso's Choice/Disjunction if you find yourself losing to relic spam. I'd also like to try a version with Xo and 12 merchants but I haven't tested that yet.

In general, there's only 3 ways to lose with this deck. You can die before you play temporal against aggro/tempo. You can lose your card draw chain post temporal. Or you can not have enough sweepers/your opponent has aegis spam.

If you've played your temporal and your opponent isn't going to kill you within the next 2-3 turns, you're almost ensured to win. While this deck has the MoC OTK as it's main win condition, your actual win condition is your opponent conceding.

As you only have 8 units in the deck - 4 of each merchant - you're going to find that you don't need to worry about tempo, or disrupting your opponent. While this makes the deck particularly weak to other OTK decks like diogo combo, the Tempo of a match rarely matters and chump blocking with merchants is totally acceptable.

The market is where I personally misplay often - pushing my draw to it thinking I have enough or not taking what I need at the time. Disjunction is used primarily to retrieve Temporal if it's destroyed by your opponent. Memento Mori is used for power fixing (I very consistently like playing turn 3 merchant into turn 4 Memento Mori). Cirso's choice is simply there for single card finishers (IE, Maul, Solitude) as well as protecting against burn from aggressive lists. Temporal and MoC are obviously combo pieces - Not playing Temporal the exact turn you gain 8 mana is a major setback for this deck. MoC sticks in your market until you need it for the combo.

Now onto the counters: The biggest issues with this deck as it stands is it loses hard to AP variants that run Svetya (A common technique is to vanquish your own merchant and then play End of the Story) as well as recklessly aggressive lists such as Skycraggro yetis, and mono f. In general you want to be able to play a power every turn against these decks, and just try to survive until knife + harsh rule. Relic weapons can be a bit spooky as well since you only have 8 units (4 of which simply die to the most relevant relic weapon, Auric Runehammer) and The Great Parliament.

In general I wouldn't say this deck is fantastic or worth crafting if you're a new player - but it is a very fun control deck with a hilarious finisher. If you have any questions or suggestions, please comment and tell me what you think.