Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Final results of the second season of the Pauper Gauntlet

It took five months but now the Gauntlet is over. Stompy is the winner.


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

The results of the first season the Pauper Gauntlet here: http://magicgatheringstrat.com/2014/06/the-pauper-gauntlet-season-one-2013/

This is the final result of season two:

75th place: Pox, Deathtouch, Dumb Green Tron.

48th place:  Icy Hot Hottie, AzoriusKitty by ShaffaWaffa5, Mono Black Control, 1-Land-Spy, Allies, CawBlade, Cogs, Dimir Cipher Tricks, GruulKitty, GW Beatdown, Hobo Omelette, Glass Cannon Red, Izzet Splice and Burn, Metalcraft, Midnight Presence, Mono Green Devotion, Mono Red Kuldotha Tron, People of the Sun, Pesky Clerics, RG Madness, Rise of the Legionaire, Rot Wolf Control, Shock the Kitty, Slivers, Thunder Trees, UB Creatureless Control, WatchRites, White Hot Hottie

31st place: UB Trinket Control, Delver, BeastDown, Tron, Izzet Control, Croca Jund, Crypt Songs, Elf Bomb, Hexproof, Golgari Undead Dredge, Infect, Squawks to Plowshares, Squawk Rites, Thallid Bowel Control, UG Madness, Zoo.

Voteback: Love Train, TurboFog and Illusory Tricks return.

21st place: Devil Children, Dimir Teachings, Five Color Green, Gray Mercs, Mana Burn, Mono Blue Artifacts, Mono Red Ping, Persistenly Undying, Project X, TurboFog

15th place: Bant Presence, Illusory Tricks, Love Train, Mono Black Land Destruction, MUC, Tortured Toolbox

12th place: Green Grifters, AzoriusKitty by Power_T, BorosKitty (the champion of S01)

11th place: DelverFiend

8th place: Goblins (repeat top 10 performance), Green One, Rebel Grind.

7th place: BUGs & Pigs

4th place: Mono Red Heroic, Exhume Control, Familiars

3rd place: Affinity

2nd place: Burn

1st place: Stompy (repeat top 10 performance)

The top 10 decks qualified for a possible future season 03.



Decks eliminated before round seven

Only three decks out of 77 lost during double elimination (R1+2): Pox, Deathtouch, Dumb Green Tron

Round three

The early losers were Icy Hot Hottie, Illusory Tricks, Love Train, AzoriusKitty by ShaffaWaffa5, Mono Black Control, 1-Land-Spy, Allies, CawBlade, Cogs, Dimir Cipher Tricks, GruulKitty, GW Beatdown, Hobo Omelette, Glass Cannon Red, Izzet Splice and Burn, Metalcraft, Midnight Presence, Mono Green Devotion, Mono Red Kuldotha Tron, People of the Sun, Pesky Clerics, RG Madness, Rise of the Legionaire, Rot Wolf Control, Shock the Kitty, Slivers, Thunder Trees, Turbo Fog, UB Creatureless Control, WatchRites, White Hot Hottie (31 decks)

Round four

UB Trinket Control, Delver, BeastDown, Tron, Izzet Control, Croca Jund, Crypt Songs, Elf Bomb, Hexproof, Golgari Undead Dredge, Infect, Squawks to Plowshares, Squawk Rites, Thallid Bowel Control, UG Madness, Zoo.

The voteback

You decided that Love Train, TurboFog and Illusory Tricks deserved a second chance at glory.

Round five

Devil Children lost to Affinity 0-2 Dimir Teachings lost to Affinity 1-2 Five Color Green gets its enchanted lands destroyed by RG Land Destruction 0-2 Gray Mercenaries of Asphodel lost to Affinity 1-2 Mana Burn lost to Delver 1-2 Mono Blue Artifacts lost to RUG Tron 0-2 Mono Red Ping lost to Izzet Trinket 0-2 Persistently Undying lost to Izzet Cruise Control 0-2 Project X got run over by DelverFiend 0-2 Turbo Fog lots to Obzens playing AzoriusTron 0-2

Round six

Bant Presence lost to DelverFiend 0-2 Illusory Tricks lost to Burn 0-2 Love Train lost the unlikely mirror match 1-2 Mono Black Land Destruction lost to Affinity 0-2 MUC lost to Affinity 0-2 Tortured Toolbox lost to Winter Zoo 0-2

Round seven

Round seven turned into a bloodbath. Only half the decks survived! That was unexpected, to say the least. AzoriusKitty lost to Affinity 0-2. Yes, it was Eredion again. That guy is a Gauntlet killer! BorosKitty lost to Burn 0-2. The champion has fallen! DelverFiend lost to Boros Metalcraft 0-2 Goblins lost to Surucucu playing RG Aggro 1-2 Green Grifters lost to Affinity 0-2 Green One was defeated by Izzet Tron 0-2 Rebel Grind lost to Izzet Tron 0-2

Top 10 playoff

After 18 bonus matches Goblins, Green One and Rebel Grind got 8th place, DelverFiend got 11th place and AzoriusKitty by Power_T, BorosKitty and Green Grifters shared 12th place.

Round eight

BUGs & Pigs lost to Delver 0-2.

Round nine

Exhume Control lost to Delver 0-2. Familars lost to RG Aggro 1-2. Mono Red Heroic lost to MBC 1-2.

Round ten

All three remaining decks won! Stompy beat Izzet Control 2-0. Affinity beat Burn 2-0. Burn beat Simic Mill 2-0.

Round eleven

Affinity lost to RUG Tron 0-2. Stompy beat Grixis Teachings 2-0. Burn beat Affinity 2-0.

Round twelve

Both remaining decks lost so the Gauntlet continued. Stompy lost to RB Flashback 1-2. Burn lost to Affinity 0-2.

Round thirteen

This was the first tournament round. Both remaining decks played a two-man tournament. Burn lost to MBC 1-2 and Stompy won the Pauper Gauntlet by beating Hexproof (a known problem matchup) 2-0.

I hope you enjoyed the Pauper Gauntlet. I did. See you next time! Well, we need to do the evaluation thing first and then we are truly done, I promise :)

2 comments:

  1. What were the biggest surprises for you during the Gauntlet?

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    1. All the awesome brews that did well, such as BUGs & Pigs and Mono Black Land Destruction (and so many others)

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