Pauper Gauntlet Deck: Metalcraft

This is the last day of deck submissions for the Pauper Gauntlet.

Submit your decks and read all about the Pauper Gauntlet here: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/08/the-pauper-gauntlet.html

When I write this, 63 decks are approved for the Gauntlet but there is room for more. Any deck submitted after the downtime starts on Wednesday Sep 10th will be ignored, so hurry up and submit your brew.

This one is from Pauper grand meister Deluxeicoff

METALCRAFT

4 Ardent Recruit

4 Court Homonculus

4 Glint Hawk

4 Auriok Sunchaser

4 Kor Skyfisher

4 Squadron Hawk

4 Vault Skirge

4 Journey to Nowhere

4 Bonesplitter

4 Flayer Husk

1 Sylvok Lifestaff

4 Ancient Den

4 Darksteel Citadel

11 Plains

Sideboard

1 Relic of Progenitus

3 Order of Leitbur

3 Unmake

3 Prismatic Strands

2 Patrician's Scorn

3 Serrated Arrows

Pauper Gauntlet competitor #5 Green One

The Pauper Gauntlet is coming to mtgolibrary. You can submit your Pauper brews starting August 31st right here. Please do not submit any decks yet.

Some of the deck lists of the competing decks that are pre-qualified by different means will be presented here. This is deck #5.

Earlier blog posts:

Deck #1 Illusory Tricks: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/06/pauper-gauntlet-competitor-1-illusory.html
Deck #2: Love Train http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/06/pauper-gauntlet-competitor-2-love-train.html

Deck #3: Exhume Control   http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/07/pauper-gauntlet-competitor-3-exhume.html
Deck #4: Izzet Control. http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/07/pauper-gauntlet-competitor-4-izzet.html

Deluxeicoff has long been a Pauper master with a preference for Green decks (and aggressive quick decks so he can do chores around the house between tournament rounds). He played Stompy for the longest time and wrote an excellent article on the deck here: http://puremtgo.com/articles/pauper-stompy?page=1

At some later point he returned to the Green aggro list and revised it, with the help of David Shaffer, to be even more aggressive. The result was "Green One", an extremely aggressive green deck. 

The basic strategy is just to kill the opponent blindingly fast.

Green One by Deluxeicoff

16 Forest
3 Khalni Garden

4 Slippery Bogle
4 Bonesplitter
4 Silhana Ledgewalker
4 Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
4 Vault Skirge
2 Young Wolf
4 Nettle Sentinel
3 Uktabi Drake

4 Vines of Vastwood
4 Rancor
4 Hunger of the Howlpack

Sideboard
2 Viridian Longbow
2 Young Wolf
4 Hornet Sting
4 Moment's Peace
3 Spore Frog

Bonus video: Me playing the deck against Stompy (!)

You can follow Deluxeicoff's brewing and ask him questions on his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Deluxeicoff

Learn more about the Pauper Gauntlet here: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/06/the-pauper-gauntlet-is-coming-to.html

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The Top Decks of Pauper: Elves

In this series we will walk you through the top decks of Pauper as played on Magic Online. Pauper is the Magic Online format where you are only allowed to play commons.  These are the official rules:http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/resources.aspx?x=magic/rules/pauper

Today we will be discussing the Elves deck. As it does have a very good matchup against the top deck (Delver), Elves comes and goes in periods. Right now it is the #5 deck on mtggoldfish, which would be about as high as it normally goes.

Earlier installments in the series

Affinity: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/the-top-decks-of-pauper-affinity.html
Burn: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/the-top-decks-of-pauper-burn.html
Delver: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/10/the-top-decks-of-pauper-delver.html
DelverFiend: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/the-top-decks-of-pauper-delverfiend.html
Elves:
MUC; http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-top-decks-of-pauper-mono-blue.html
Stompy: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/10/the-top-decks-of-pauper-stompy.html
Tron: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/04/the-top-decks-of-pauper-rug-tron.html
UB Trinket Control: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/10/the-top-decks-of-pauper-ub-trinket.html

The Plan
The idea is to play an enormous amount of elves quickly and either attack for lethal with Timberwatch Elves hep, gain a lot of life with Essence Warden or Wellwisher and/or combo kill with Viridian Longbow. Distant Melody ensures the broken combo nature of this deck.

A year ago I did an interview with one of the best elf players out there: Deluxeicoff. As Pauper is an eternal format, much of what was said still applies. Here is the video.

Pauper Elves sample deck list

There has been many versions of this deck. This deck is by F0urL1ghts from an event played on April 21st 2014. Here is the link: http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/230983

Main Deck
4 Birchlore Rangers
4 Wellwisher
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Timberwatch Elf
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Priest of Titania
3 Sylvan Ranger
4 Nettle Sentinel
3 Llanowar Elves
2 Elvish Mystic

4 Distant Melody
2 Spidersilk Armor
1 Viridian Longbow

12 Forest
1 Island

Sideboard
4 Thermokarst
4 Scattershot Archer
3 Gleeful Sabotage
2 Moment's Peace
1 Serene Heart
1 Fog

Financially, the cards you need to care about is Quirion Ranger and Nettle Senitel. Quirion Ranger was just flashback drafted so pick it up now. You will have to wait two weeks until you pick up Nettle Sentinel which will crash hard in the coming weeks due to Flashback drafts.

Here is a bonus video of me playing Elves vs Delver