Featured deck of the Pauper Gauntlet: BUGs & Pigs

77 decks were submitted to the Pauper Gauntlet. GalacticPresident submitted this grindy midrange control deck and I did not take it very seriously. But it did make it to the top 10!

The idea is to abuse Grim Harvest to out-value anything. 

First, the deck list:

The deck

Creature (25)

• 4x Brindle Boar

• 3x Crypt Rats

• 4x Fume Spitter

• 4x Krosan Tusker

• 4x Mulldrifter

• 4x Sakura-Tribe Elder

• 2x Wickerbough Elder

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Chainer's Edict

Instant (9)

• 1x Doom Blade

• 2x Grim Harvest

• 1x Mystical Teachings

• 1x Negate

• 4x Tragic Slip

Land (22)

• 8x Forest

• 2x Island

• 4x Jungle Hollow

• 8x Swamp

Sideboard (15)

• 1x Crypt Rats

• 3x Doom Blade

• 2x Naturalize

• 2x Negate

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

• 4x Sylvok Lifestaff

• 2x Tangle

So how did the deck do?

Loss in round one!
The deck did lose in round one against MBC. Things did not look good for the critters.
Fortunately round 1+2 was double elimination so the deck got another chance in round two.

Round two against White Weenie

This was rough but we pulled through, winning 2-1.

Round three and four against InfectWe have a lot of removal and sacrifice effects. That turns out to be pretty good against Infect. We won both times with 2-1. We were never safe but we pulled through.

Round five against Dimir Teachings

On paper, this looked completely unwinnable. It was when we won this match that I started to pay attention. Was this a real deck?

Round six against Stompy

Stompy tends to lose against Rogue decks more than other tier 1 decks and BUGs & Pigs is good at beating creature decks so I felt we had a good chance here. We won easily in our first 2-0 victory.

 
Round seven against Slivers
Another 2-0 victory against a creature deck. Wow! BUGs & Pigs had made it to the top 10!

Round eight against Delver
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Thank you so much, GalaticPresident, for submitting this amazing brew! It made #7 in the Pauper Gauntlet! Well done!

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

We are now in weekly rounds

I will now play one round per week until very few decks remain. Rounds start on Wednesdays and end on Tuesdays (GMT+1) and I will summarize the rounds in the Standard Pauper Show and in blog posts here weekly.

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.

There are also bonus practice matches with some of the decks that are still in the Gauntlet on the sngprop youtube channel.