RecSaur 2.0

The version of RecSaur combo I've been trying after making masters with version 1 of this deck.

So far I've been extremely happy with the 3 main changes -- no maindeck quarry, market savage denial, and a playset of temple tactics.

I'm planning to turn this into a more extensive primer soon, but for now just the basics. This deck is looking to play a 0-cost Recurring Nightmare 20+ times in a single turn with the help of Iceberg Scattershot, so you need to assemble a 4 card combo: Nightmare+Scattershot+Avisaur+other cost reduction. That miscellaneous piece can be quarry, in which case you usually need 6 power to go Avisaur+Quarry in one turn. For faster comboing, that last piece can be Journey Guide. If you're on the Guide plan, and you have a Jennev or Kerendon Merchant to spare getting Nightmare, I strongly recommend holding it until a turn where you can play both. Merchants don't generate a response window, so this guarantees the inspire proc on Nightmare and makes you immune to removal on the Guide. Occasionally your 4th piece can just be a second copy of avisaur that you play the turn after, but this requires at least one Avisaur be hard drawn or for you to tactics your first one.

By the power of Merchants and abusing the guaranteed non-power on a redraw the deck can be surprisingly consistent, and draws with a Journey Guide can be fast as well. Try to figure out how many turns you have before dying so you know whether you can afford to wait for Temple Tactics or Denial as combo protection.

Finally, you might think that "normal" damage isn't important when you're playing an infinite combo, but every point still matters. Not only does pressuring your opponents life total with random merchants and nightmares sometimes force your opponents to tap out and give you a safe window to combo, but you can actually win the game every so often with a bit of chip damage+4-5 Nightmare attacks.

Edit: Still way too small a sample size, but so far this version has got me to rank 33.

Edit 2: Now 34, with a record of 37-28 in high masters.