Another eight decks get eliminated from 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

Last time I gave you the list of the first 19 victims of the Pauper Gauntlet. You can read it here: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/10/the-slaughter-in-round-3-of-pauper.html

This time they are joined by the runner-up and the #3 deck from last year and six others.

Love Train

Illusory Tricks

Icy Hot Hottie
AzoriusKitty by David

1-land-Spy
Allies
GW Beatdown
Izzet Splice and Burn

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

That means a total of 27 decks have been eliminated and 50 remain. Round 3 is not yet finished, but it is getting very close.

The voteback

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!

The Show
Here I talk to Sam about the decks that died in round 3 of the Gauntlet.


The Standard Pauper Show is also available on itunes.

What will happen now?

77 decks entered the Gauntlet. 50 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 24 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.

Pauper Gauntlet Competitor #1: Illusory Tricks

The Pauper Gauntlet is coming to mtgolibrary. You can submit your Pauper brews starting August 31st right here.

10 decks were prequalified for The Gauntlet by doing well last year. They will be presented here.

Deck #1 is Illusory Tricks, the runner up in the first season of The Pauper Gauntlet.

The basic idea is to play a mono blue tempo deck that can beat Delver.

Illusory Tricks by Bava

Land (19) 18 Island 1 Quicksand Creatures (23) 4 Krovikan Mist 4 Dream Stalker 4 Cloudfin Raptor 2 Phantasmal Bear 3 Fathom Seer 3 Spire Golem 2 Stormbound Geist 1 Mulldrifter Spells (16) 4 Counterspell 4 Vapor Snag 4 Preordain 2 Piracy Charm 2 Deprive Artifacts (2) 2 Bonesplitter

Sideboard (15) 2 Stormbound Geist 4 Hydroblast 2 Coral Net 2 Curse of Chains 3 Mulldrifter 2 Serrated Arrows

Sideboard Plan

Affinity: +4 hydroblast, -1 oona's grace, -2 stormbound geist, -1 piracy charm

Delver and Muc: +2 serrated arrows, +2 stormbound geist, -4 vapor snag

Stompy: +4 coral net, +2 serrated arrows, -1 oona's grace, -2 stormbound geist, -1 piracy charm, -2 fathom seer

Elves: +4 coral net, +2 serrated arrows, -1 oona's grace, -2 stormbound geist, -1 vapor snag, -2 fathom seer

Burn: +4 hydroblast, -4 vapor snag

Goblins: +4 hydroblast, +2 serrated arrows, -4 vapor snag, -2 stormbound geist

Mbc and UB control: +2 serrated arrows, +2 stormbound geist, -4 vapor snag

UR fiend: +4 hydroblast, -1 oona's grace, -2 stormbound geist, -1 fathom seer

Read more in this article by Bava: http://magicgatheringstrat.com/2014/06/illusory-tricks-better-than-second-place/


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