20 decks remain in the Pauper Gauntlet

We started out with 77 decks. When we entered round five we had 30 decks left. Round five is now over. It was single elimination in the Tournament Practice room (this will be the format until round 12).

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

The round ended with 20 wins and 10 losses. I think that is about the win rate we should see (or better) from this point on.

Decks that won and made it to round 6 of the Pauper Gauntlet S02
Affinity defeats DelverFiend 2-1
AzoriusKitty defeats MBC 2-1
Bant Presence combos off against Azorius Borderpost 2-1
BorosKitty defeats Delver 2-1
Bugs & Pigs runs into a quitter and wins

Burn defeats MBC 2-1
DelverFiend defeats AzoriusKitty 2-1
Exhume Control defeats
Familiars bores Izzet Cruise Control to death 2-0
Green One defeats MUC 2-1

Green Grifters gets a BYE from a Quitter
Goblins defeats Boros Metalcraft 2-0
Illusory Tricks defeats Goblins 2-0
Love Train defeats Infect 2-1
Mono Black Land Destruction defeats Affinity 2-1

Mono Red Heroic runs over Delver 2-0 despite horrible draws and mulligan decisions
MUC defeats Dimir Teachings 2-0
Rebel Grind defeats DelverFiend 2-1
Stompy defeats White Weenie 2-0
Tortured Toolbox defeats MBC 2-1

Decks that lost and are eliminated from the Pauper Gauntlet S02
We say farewell to the following decks:

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

What about the decks that got voted back?
Well, Love Train and Illusory Tricks managed to represent well but Turbo Fog had a very hard matchup with AzoriusTron played by an expert level player.

You can watch the whole debacle here and tell me what I could have done differently



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 now go into 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.