The slaughter in round 3 of the Pauper Gauntlet

WARNING! This blog post contains spoilers if you have not watched all of the videos of the third round of the Pauper Gauntlet S02.

Basic facts
What is the Pauper Gauntlet? 
http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-pauper-gauntlet.html

Full list of the 77 Pauper Gauntlet decks for the second season: 

http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/09/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet.html

The above link also contains information about how you can win free prizes (including an Elspeth, Sun's Champion and two foil Shocklands (paper) by watching the pauper Gauntlet

The fallen heroes

Only three decks perished during the double elimination rounds (Stupid Green Tron, Deathtouch and Pox). When we started the third round, we moved into single elimination and started playing in the Tournament Practice room. That changed everything. Decks started to get eliminated - a lot!

These are the fallen heroes of the third round (so far - it is not finished yet):

Mono Black Control (yes, the #1 favorite is gone)
White Hot Hottie
CawBlade
Cogs
GruulKitty

Hobo Omelette
Glass Cannon Red (despite its very impressive performance in r1 and r2)
Metalcraft
Midnight Presence
Mono Green Devotion

Mono Red Kuldotha Tron
RG Madness
Slivers
Thunder Trees
Turbo Fog

UB Creatureless Control

For deck lists for these decks check out this link: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/09/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet.html


Is there hope?

There is indeed hope as there will be a voteback after round 4. That voteback will happen here on mtgolibrary and the THREE (3) decks that gets the most votes return to the competition in round 5! Every deck will get to make an argument for its return when that time comes.

Feature match

Not every deck lost. Here are two epic battles that I actually won (I have won a majority of the matches so far).

Gray Mercenaries of Asphodel did what MBC could not and survived the round against one of the very worst matchups for a black control deck

Croca Jund crushed DelverFiend/EyeCandy

What will happen now?

77 decks entered the Gauntlet. 58 decks remain. Round 3 is single elimination in the Tournament Practice Room. Expect the bloodbath to continue. My orginal estimate was about 20-30 casualties in the third round, maybe even more. We have 16 so far.

How can you follow the Pauper Gauntlet?
The twitter account @MagicGathStrat tweets whenever a video is uploaded to the two YouTube channels that feature the Gauntlet: MagicGatheringStrat and sngprop.