Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Only three decks remain in the Pauper Gauntlet

We started this adventure in August with 77 decks and after a turbulent round 9 we now only have three decks left. One of these will be the winner.




Stompy 
Championed by Denofbears
This very aggressive weenie deck has crushed every opponent with cheap green creatures and pump spells. It has a clean 9-0 record with a staggering 18-2 in duels.
Deck list here: http://magicgatheringstrat.com/2014/07/pauper-gauntlet-competitor-13-stompy/


Affinity
Championed by DanieZiltoid
The robots are doing well. The machine seems to be well oiled. By drawing a ton of cards while playing cheap 4/4s, everything falls against it. There was a loss in the double elimination rounds though. That one loss was in the mirror match against a better Affinity player.
Deck list: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/the-top-decks-of-pauper-affinity.html


Burn 
Championed by jphsnake
Casting 7 lightning bolts to the face is still a viable tactic in magic it seems. Despite having played this deck a lot I only had a 55% winning record before I switched to this build right before the Gauntlet. And it seems to have worked!
Deck list: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/the-top-decks-of-pauper-burn.html

Upcoming rounds
As we are close to the end of this exercise now I will play both round 10 and round 11 during the coming week. I assume that we will be able to crown a winner after that.

Which deck do you think will win the Pauper Gauntlet?

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: 

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.

2 comments:

  1. As I mentioned in my recent recap article, my money is on Stompy. Burn and Affinity are both incredibly strong right now, though, and could easily steal the win. /bava

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    1. Stay tuned. I can promise you tons of tier 1 deck action :)

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