Wednesday, April 27, 2016

My new tier 1 Modern deck

As I announced last week, I have changed my main deck for Modern.

I am now playing Naya Burn.


Main deck
4 Goblin Guide
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Shard Volley
4 Boros Charm
1 Lightning Helix
3 Searing Blaze
2 Skullcrack
4 Rift Bolt
4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Sacred Foundry
2 Stomping Ground
4 Wooded Foothills
2 Mountain
4 Windswept Heath
4 Atarka's Command

Sideboard
2 Deflecting Palm
1 Lightning Helix
4 Kor Firewalker
1 Searing Blaze
2 Path to Exile
4 Destructive Revelry
1 Smash to Smithereens

Windswept Heath should really be Scalding Tarn or Arid Mesa but they are just out of my price range (and dangerous investments) right now. Windswept Heath is worse but I figured it is good enough for testing. 

Here is an initial match with the deck



Here are some Naya Burn resources I am using:

Red Deck Winning's guide to Naya Burn: https://reddeckwinning.com/2016/01/18/the-modern-burn-bible/

The mtgsalvation Burn primer and forum discussion: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/tier-1-modern/650623-burn

Now I am going to play 100 practice matches, construct a sideboard plan and then I am ready to rumble!

Monday, April 25, 2016

Three decks make it to round 11 of the Pauper Gauntlet season three

Four decks entered round ten and only one of them lost!

What is the Pauper Gauntlet?
All about the Pauper Gauntlet Season 03: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-pauper-gauntlet.html
All the deck lists: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet-s03.html

Round ten
Round ten was played in the Tournament Practice room. Here are all the matches of the round.

Aristocrats is the kind of deck that Elves want to play against but then something happens.


Well, Cyborgs is a fast deck. Bant Heroic ... not so much.


Why this did not happen many rounds earlier I can not explain.


Well, the Green One preys on durdlish deck that try to go big.

What happens now?
We are now in weekly rounds and will go one round per week until the end. Round eleven is the last round in the Tournament Practice Room. After that it is time for the 2-mans.

The player who chose the right deck to win the Pauper Gauntlet will get 100 bot credits from mtgotickets.com. These three players are markovian (Green One), Paul Jones (Aristocrafts, also the brewer) and TheBlackGauntlet (Cyborgs).

A gold star goes to PauperRBust who managed to pick up Spiteful Leeches last week (!) but then immediatly lost.

The results of the Pauper Gauntlet S03 so far
4th place (round ten): Spiteful Leeches
5th place (round nine): WW Soul Tokens 
6th place (round eight):  BUGs & Pigs, Pig Trinket, MBC, Bant Sword and Shield
The playoff for the 10th spot in the top 10
10th place: Slivers (won the playoff)
11th place: Stompy Tokens, Mono Red Heroic (round five in the playoff)
13th place: Goblin Storm, BorosKitty Initiated (round four in the playoff)
15pth place: Stompy (round three in the playoff)
16th place: RUG Tron, Izzet Cooldotha and UG Madness 
Round seven eliminations - the decks in the Top 10 Playoff: BorosKitty Initiated, Slivers, Mono Red Heroic, Stompy, UG Madness,  RUG Tron and Izzet Cooldotha. 
19th place (round six): Infect, Blue Bichinho, Death Control, Burn (runner-up from last season) and Pauper Nightmare. 
24th place (round five) Illusory Tricks, White Heroes, Goblins, Suicide Black, Turbo Angler, Simic Oracle, Kuldotha Mardu, Elves, Rhystic Tron, MUC, Black Auramancer, Love Train, 
36th place (round four) Counter-Kitty,UB Trinket Control, Rakdos Vampires, Flying Ninjas, Turbo Zoo, Shroudfang Ninja. Delver, Green Ramp LD, Snow-Go, Turbo Exhume
45th place: Shared by the 26 decks eliminated in round threeAffinity, Exhume Control, Familiars, Rebel Grind, Pestilence Control, Encroaching Blight, Green Grifters, The Pauper Gauntlet, Project X, Tortured Toolbox, RG Land Crusher, RG Landfall, DelverFiend, Eggs, Gary Busey LD, Selesnya Flash, Abzan Grindhouse, Bant Fog, Crocajund, BUG Proliferators, Evil Allies, Land-o-derm, Pig Trinket, Sultai Delve, 5-color Green
70th place: Shared by nine decks that died during double Elimination, (round one and two): Red Land Destruction, Mono Black Land Destruction, Glass Cannon Red, Tortured Madness,  Cheaty Morph, Living End, 1-land Spy, UB Justice Control and Dragon Delve.


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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Magic judges sue Wizards

A few Magic judges sued Wizards of the Coast.

Lawsuit: click here
Wizard's response: click here
Response of Director of Organized Play for WotC: click here

To put it in simply terms, the judges claim that their work meets the legal definition of employees, and Wizards has failed to compensate them appropriate. According to law, we cannot treat judges as volunteers. Volunteers are those “who perform [..] hours of service for a public agency for civic, charitable, or humanitarian reasons, without promise, expectation or receipt of compensation for services rendered.” However, judges receive compensation usually in the form of Magic products, which is rather symbolic in comparizon to such responsible and time consuming task, which surely judging at Pro Tour, Grand Prix level is.

The court will decide who is right, unless the parties settle.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Putting RG Tron away for a while

Two weeks ago I pondered the future of RG Tron in Modern after the banning of Eye of Ugin in this article: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2016/04/modern-bible-of-rg-tron-update-winning.html




After that article and several videos with the deck I came across this article by Ali Aintrazi, a well know supporter of RG Tron: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=13215&writer=Ali+Aintrazi&articledate=4-13-2016

RG Tron has been a favorite deck of mine. As you know, I even wrote a 36-article series on the deck. RG Tron is exactly what I want to do in Magic. I am a Spike first but I am probably a Timmy second. Playing big creatures and sweeping the board is just awesome. Maybe my emotional attachement to the deck has depleted my ability to see things clearly. RG Tron was a tier 1.5-tier 2 deck at best and now it is even worse. 

I will put Tron away for a while. I will closely follow what happens to the deck, rejoice at its successes and think hard about the card choices, but it will not be my deck of choice this spring. 

Starting on April 26th on my YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/magicgatheringstrat) I will be playing a new Modern deck, a tier one deck - a very well known deck. I have assembled the cards and right now I am studying hard to understand the theory behind the deck. I will reveal the deck here next week.


Sunday, April 17, 2016

Hidden Card Error - changes

Hidden Card Error handles any situation where a player screws up and the error can't be corrected using publicly known information. This includes situations where a player draws two cards when they were supposed to draw one, drawing too many cards for your opening hand, scrying 2 when you were supposed to scry 1 and more. In the past, some of these situations were fixed with a Game Loss. Starting with Shadows over Innistrad prerelease almost all of them are given Warnings instead. In addition to the Warning, you're required to reveal all cards from the hidden zone that now contains the cards/information that should have been revealed. Your opponent then selects a number of excess cards or unverifiable cards and those cards are returned to the proper zone. If that proper zone is the library, the selected cards are shuffled back in.

 Practical examples:

  • You draw eight cards for your initial hand. You reveal your hand, your opponent shuffles one card back into your library, and then you continue with your mulligan decision.
  • You put a card into your hand using Dark Confdiant ability, but you forgot to reveal it. You reveal your hand instead and your opponent chooses a card. Then, you loose life equal to its convereted mana cost.
  • You looked at seven cards while casting Collected Company. You reveal those seven cards and your opponent selects one to be shuffled back into the library. Afterwards, you choose up to two creature cards and put them into play.

Four decks make it to round 10 of the Pauper Gauntlet S03

Five decks entered round 09 and only one of them lost!

What is the Pauper Gauntlet?
All about the Pauper Gauntlet Season 03: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-pauper-gauntlet.html
All the deck lists: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet-s03.html

Round nine
Round nine was played in the Tournament Practice room.Here are all the results of the round .

Cyborgs defeated Zombies 2-0
Aristocrafts defeated RakdosKitty 2-1
Spiteful Leeches somehow dominated 5-color Tortured Existence 2-0
The Green One ran into a quitter 2-0
WW Soul Tokens was defeated UW Tron in a tough match 2-1

Regarding the WW Soul Tokens vs Elves matchup the brewer had written the following:

Elves: Suture Priest and Standard Bearer = GG. Journey the Wellwishers. Watch out for arrows. Win in the air or on time.
+3 Standard Bearer, +3 Prismatic Strands, +4 Lumithread Field, +1 Holy Light | -3 Raise the Alarm, -4 Doomed Traveler, -3 Order of Leitbur, -1 Guardian's Pledge

 This was definitely not my experience in the match. Timberwatch and Wellwisher was just too powerful and he had eight of them while I only had 4 Journey to Nowhere. As soon as one of them landed the game was out of reach for the WW deck.

Here is the match so you can see for yourself.

What happens now?
We are now in weekly rounds and will go one round per week until the end. On Monday there will be a short practice round with all four decks with the round 10 matches following Thursday-Sunday on the MagicGatheringStrat youtube channel.


The results of the Pauper Gauntlet S03 so far
5th place (round nine): WW Soul Tokens 
6th place (round eight):  BUGs & Pigs, Pig Trinket, MBC, Bant Sword and Shield
The playoff for the 10th spot in the top 10
10th place: Slivers (won the playoff)
11th place: Stompy Tokens, Mono Red Heroic (round five in the playoff)
13th place: Goblin Storm, BorosKitty Initiated (round four in the playoff)
15pth place: Stompy (round three in the playoff)
16th place: RUG Tron, Izzet Cooldotha and UG Madness 
Round seven eliminations - the decks in the Top 10 Playoff: BorosKitty Initiated, Slivers, Mono Red Heroic, Stompy, UG Madness,  RUG Tron and Izzet Cooldotha. 
19th place (round six): Infect, Blue Bichinho, Death Control, Burn (runner-up from last season) and Pauper Nightmare. 
24th place (round five) Illusory Tricks, White Heroes, Goblins, Suicide Black, Turbo Angler, Simic Oracle, Kuldotha Mardu, Elves, Rhystic Tron, MUC, Black Auramancer, Love Train, 
36th place (round four) Counter-Kitty,UB Trinket Control, Rakdos Vampires, Flying Ninjas, Turbo Zoo, Shroudfang Ninja. Delver, Green Ramp LD, Snow-Go, Turbo Exhume
45th place: Shared by the 26 decks eliminated in round threeAffinity, Exhume Control, Familiars, Rebel Grind, Pestilence Control, Encroaching Blight, Green Grifters, The Pauper Gauntlet, Project X, Tortured Toolbox, RG Land Crusher, RG Landfall, DelverFiend, Eggs, Gary Busey LD, Selesnya Flash, Abzan Grindhouse, Bant Fog, Crocajund, BUG Proliferators, Evil Allies, Land-o-derm, Pig Trinket, Sultai Delve, 5-color Green
70th place: Shared by nine decks that died during double Elimination, (round one and two): Red Land Destruction, Mono Black Land Destruction, Glass Cannon Red, Tortured Madness,  Cheaty Morph, Living End, 1-land Spy, UB Justice Control and Dragon Delve.


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New record for wikiprice: 50'000 pageviews in a day



Yesterday wikiprice reached more than 50'000 page views. Shadows over Innistrad helped a lot, but this is our best record so far.

Thank you all for making wikiprice so good and such a valuable resource for the community. We will work hard to make it better and better.


Friday, April 15, 2016

MTGO Library 10.94 and 10.95 - Shadows over Innistrad

Yesterday we released ML Bot 10.94, supporting the new set Shadows over Innistrad. Today we released  a minor update (ML Bot 10.95) fixing a problem with the mtgo login - sometimes the bot was unable to detect correctly the loading, causing a restart loop.

The updated pricelist containing SOI cards is already available online. You can get it during the update process or in the installer.  LITE bot users should update the pricelist as well.

Wikiprice has already SOI cards, we are just now fixing some card images problems.

Enjoy!




Wednesday, April 13, 2016

MTGO Library Bot 10.93

The new Magic Online version, released today, requires a ML Bot client update. We have just released the update (ML Bot 10.93) and stopped the launch of the previous versions. If you run an older version you need to update the bot to 10.93. The bot should automatically update, but you can still download the installer from the Online Control Panel.

Please also note that WotC changed the way the "Submit" button behaves. The button does not blink anymore when the buddies submit the trade, and thus there is no way to recognize the submit action. We will try to read the "Trade Submitted" flash message to recognize the action, even if the message fades in few seconds. For now the bot will only recognize the "done" written in the chat, like the old MTGO v3.

Later today or tomorrow we will also release another update, supporting the new set, SOI.


The Top Ten Underplayed Modern Decks

Two years ago, my friend Peyton made the following video about the top 10 underplayed decks in Modern.:



This was very popular and is still the most viewed video of all time on our YouTube channel MagicGatheringStrat. For this reason, my other friend, Binkabi, decided to make an updated version of the list recently.



If you are looking for something interesting to play in Modern you might find a deck or two in these two lists.

Here is Binkabi's list:

#10: Heartless Summoning
#9: Polymorph
#8: Green Lightning
#7: Elemental Combo
#6: Enduring Ideal
#5: Mardu Tokens
#4: Ad Nauseam
#3: Elves
#2: Sky Hussar
#1: You have to watch the video :)

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Round 8 of the Pauper Gauntlet S03

Round eight ended 5-4 which means that we are very close to the end of the Pauper Gauntlet. Only five decks remain alive!

What is the Pauper Gauntlet?
All about the Pauper Gauntlet Season 03: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-pauper-gauntlet.html
All the deck lists: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet-s03.html

Round eight
Round eight was played in the Tournament Practice room.Here are all the results of the round .

Pig Trinket was crushed by MBC 0-2
MBC was crushed by MBC 0-2
BUGs & Pigs lost to Golgari Control (?) 1-2
The Green One took down RG Madness 2-0
Cyborgs defeated Golgari Dredge 2-1

WW Soul Tokens whacked Stompy 2-0
Spiteful Leeches ran into a quitter
Aristocrafts defeated RakdosKitty 2-1
Bant Sword and Shield died to Jund 0-2

Definitely not the result I expected. Still two WW decks alive. And Spiteful Leeches - how did that happen?




What happens now?
We are now in weekly rounds and will go one round per week until the end.

Top ten decks still alive
No Top Ten decks from last season are still in the game. .

The results of the Pauper Gauntlet S03 so far
6th place (round eight):  BUGs & Pigs, Pig Trinket, MBC, Bant Sword and Shield

The playoff for the 10th spot in the top 10
10th place: Slivers (won the playoff)
11th place: Stompy Tokens, Mono Red Heroic (round five in the playoff)
13th place: Goblin Storm, BorosKitty Initiated (round four in the playoff)
15pth place: Stompy (round three in the playoff)
16th place: RUG Tron, Izzet Cooldotha and UG Madness 

Round seven eliminations - the decks in the Top 10 Playoff: BorosKitty Initiated, Slivers, Mono Red Heroic, Stompy, UG Madness,  RUG Tron and Izzet Cooldotha. 
19th place (round six): Infect, Blue Bichinho, Death Control, Burn (runner-up from last season) and Pauper Nightmare. 
24th place (round five) Illusory Tricks, White Heroes, Goblins, Suicide Black, Turbo Angler, Simic Oracle, Kuldotha Mardu, Elves, Rhystic Tron, MUC, Black Auramancer, Love Train, 
36th place (round four) Counter-Kitty,UB Trinket Control, Rakdos Vampires, Flying Ninjas, Turbo Zoo, Shroudfang Ninja. Delver, Green Ramp LD, Snow-Go, Turbo Exhume
45th place: Shared by the 26 decks eliminated in round threeAffinity, Exhume Control, Familiars, Rebel Grind, Pestilence Control, Encroaching Blight, Green Grifters, The Pauper Gauntlet, Project X, Tortured Toolbox, RG Land Crusher, RG Landfall, DelverFiend, Eggs, Gary Busey LD, Selesnya Flash, Abzan Grindhouse, Bant Fog, Crocajund, BUG Proliferators, Evil Allies, Land-o-derm, Pig Trinket, Sultai Delve, 5-color Green
70th place: Shared by nine decks that died during double Elimination, (round one and two): Red Land Destruction, Mono Black Land Destruction, Glass Cannon Red, Tortured Madness,  Cheaty Morph, Living End, 1-land Spy, UB Justice Control and Dragon Delve.


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Shadows over Innistrad: combat tricks

Surprises are not welcomed during a draft. You should be able to predict what your opponent may be holding in his hand in order to minimalize the risk of misplay. To this end, I've prepared a list of cards that do unexpected combat tricks.

WhiteArchangel Avacyn, Eerie Interlude, Expose Evil, Humble the Brute, Puncturing Light, Silverstrike, Strength of Arms, Survive the Night Tenacity.
BlueCompelling Deterrence, Engulf the Shore, Essence Flux, Jace's Scrutiny, Just the Wind, Rattlechains, Stormrider Spirit.
BlackBiting Rain, From Under the Floorboards, Gisa's Bidding, Grotesque Mutation, Merciless Resolve, Murderous Compulsion, Throttle, To the Slaughter.
RedAvacyn's Judgment, Dance with Devils, Dissension in the Ranks, Dual Shot, Geistblast, Fiery Temper, Inner Struggle, Lightning Axe, Rush of Adrenaline, Senseless Rage, Stensia Masquerade, Uncaged Fury.
GreenAim High, Clip Wings, Confront the Unknown, Howlpack Resurgence, Might Beyond Reason, Moonlight Hunt, Pack Guardian, Second Harvest.
MultiAnguished Unmaking.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Modern Bible of RG Tron Update: Winning without Eye of Ugin

As you may know, Eye of Ugin is now banned in Modern: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/banned-and-restricted-announcement-2016-04-04

Sword of the Meek is unbanned, as is Ancestral Visions. 

As a RG Tron player, we have now lost our tool to achieve the greatest inevitability in Modern; The Emrakul win through Eye of Ugin. Fetch Eye, get Emrakul, win against anything in the mid and late game.




How badly hurt is RG Tron?

#1: You don't get to Tron. This has not changed. We are still as capable to play a turn 3 Karn Liberated as we ever were.
#2: You play against a combo deck that is just faster than you are. I have no idea how fast Sword of the Meek decks can be but surely that can be a problem.
#3: You get to Tron but not to Emrakul, run out of gas and lose. This is the problem.

Emrakul has to go. A one-off 15-mana card does prove inevitability but there is a very realistic chance you never draw her in a game now. Earlier you had 12+ search cards that could find Eye of Ugin to search for Emrakul. Now you have nothing. That does not work.

The problem is that there may now be decks that have better lategames than us. Take Mono Blue Tron as an example - already equipped with a super powerful lategame (but not as good as Emrakul) they now get four Ancestral Visions as well. In fact, a whole new generation of control decks can pop up now.

Can they deal with us? We are already weak to aggro and combo and we are probably still very good against midrange. But how good is the control match now? Well, we still have potent threats. Their counterspells are still weak lategame. And we still have Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger.

Changes to RG Tron
Eye of Ugin is gone. It was never a land. It almost never gave us mana. It was a way to find Ulamog or Emrakul. I think replacing Eye of Ugin with a land is a mistake and shows a luck of fundamental understanding of what our deck is trying to do.

If we are going to rely on Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, we better draw him. We have to up the count of the great Eldrazi lord.

Could the solution be as simple as to replace Eye of Ugin and Emrakul with two copies of Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger? 

This breaks the principle of the 2-of that I wrote about here: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/12/2-ofs_23.html

Looking at that article, Ulamog is certainly a 2-of. We want to be sure we can draw one copy of the card in the lategame and drawing two copies is not the end of the world (they do stack quite well - after they deal with Ulamog #1, Ulamog #2 breaks their back). 

Playing three copies of the card seems excessive but Ulamog is so critical to us that I want to try it anyways. The correct solution is probably some other card, unless the whole deck should be reconstructed to be a bigger Eldrazi deck. 

Having said all this, I will try this simple swap and see how it does.

An alternative solution - the big Eldrazi deck
I just saw this on mtgsalvation. Credit goes to user Dizdo for trying this.

4 Urza's Mine
4 Urza's Power Plant
4 Urza's Tower
4 Eldrazi Temple
4 Forest
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Expedition Map
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Sylvan Scrying
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
4 Thought-Knot Seer
3 Conduit of Ruin
1 Ruin Processor
3 Oblivion Sower
3 World Breaker
4 Karn Liberated
Sideboard
3 All Is Dust
2 Creeping Corrosion
2 Dragon's Claw
3 Nature's Claim
2 Ruin Processor
3 Spellskite

That is quite different from the pre-ban RG Tron decks. Its more like the love child of Eldrazi and RG Tron. I will be following Dizdo's result closely.

Next week I will publish the first tests with my new RG Tron build with the simple swap on https://www.youtube.com/user/magicgatheringstrat  One video on Tuesday, one of Friday. Check them out if you are interested. 

Monday, April 4, 2016

How to draft Shadows over Innistrad?

I'm going to present you the list of cards, starting from the best pick during the draft and ending on the least desirable card. For instance, if you don't have any card from "2nd pick" card pool you look for cards in "3rd pick". Cards not mentioned below shouldn't appear in your deck. Notwithstanding, cards like vanilla creature 2/2 for 2 mana are as well essential in your deck in order to be able to stop early threats of your opponent.

1st pick:
white: Always Watching, Archangel Avacyn, Descend upon the Sinful.
blueJace, Unraveler of Secrets.
black: -
redAvacyn's Judgment, Wolf of Devil’s Breach.
green: -
coloress: Westvale Abbey.
multi: Altered Ego, Arlinn Kord, The Gitrog Monster, Nahiri, the Harbinger, Olivia, Mobilized for War, Sigarda, Heron’s Grace, Sorin, Grim Nemesis.


2nd pick:
whiteBound by Moonsilver.
blueForgotten Creation, Geralf’s Masterpiece, Reckless Scholar, Startled Awake, Welcome to the Fold.
blackDiregraf Colossus, Elusive Tormentor, From Under the Floorboards, Relentless Dead, 
redBurn from Within, Devil's Playground, Flameblade Angel, Goldnight Castigator, Lightning Axe, Mad Prophet. 
green: Pack Guardian, Sage of Ancient Lore, Tireless Tracker.
coloress: -
multi: Anguished Unmaking.

3rd pick:
white: Angelic Purge, Bygone Bishop, Dauntless Cathar, Declaration in Stone, Drogskol Cavalry, Hanweir Militia Captain, Nearheath Chaplain, Odric, Lunarch Marshal, Pious Evangel, Puncturing Light, Reaper of Flight Moonsilver, Spectral Shepherd, Thalia’s Lieutenant.
blueAberrant Researcher, Compelling Deterrence, Confirm Suspicions, Daring Sleuth, Drownyard Explorers, Drunau Corpse Trawler, Erdwal Illuminator, Ghostly Wings, Just the Wind, Niblis of Dusk, Pore Over the Pages, Rattlechains, Silent Observer, Sleep Paralysis, Stitchwing Skaab. 
blackAccursed Witch, Asylum Visitor, Crow of Dark Tidings, Dead Weight, Ever After, Farbog Revenant, Ghoulcaller’s Accomplice, Ghoulsteed, Gisa’s Bidding, Heir of Falkenrath, Kindly Stranger, Markov Dreadknight, Murderous Compulsion, Olivia’s Bloodsworn, Rancid Rats, Sinister Concoction, Tooth Collector. 
redBreakneck Rider, Dance with Devils, Falkenrath Gorger, Fiery Temper, Gatstaf Arsonists, Geier Reach Bandit, Geistblast, Gibbering Fiend, Howlpack Wolf, Incorrigible Youths, Inner Struggle, Kessig Forgemaster, Ravenous Bloodseeker, Scourge Wolf, Sin Prodder, Spiteful Motives, Tormenting Voice, Ulrich’s Kindred, Voldaren Duelist.
green: Briarbridge Patrol, Byway Courier, Cult of the Waxing Moon, Deathcap Cultivator, Duskwatch Recruiter, Graf Mole, Hermit of the Natterknolls, Hinterland Logger, Inexorable Blob, Intrepid Provisioner, Lambholt Pacifist, Obsessive Skinner, Quilled Wolf, Rabid Bite, Seasons Past, Silverfur Partisan, Solitary Hunter, Soul Swallower, Traverse the Ulvenwald, Ulvenwald Hydra, Veteran Cathar, Watcher in the Web.
coloress: 
Slayer’s Plate, 
Tamiyo’s Journal, 
Wild-Field Scarecrow.
multiPrized Amalgam.

Banned and Restricted announcement

You may want to take a look at the new banned & restricted list, just release by WotC !

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/banned-and-restricted-announcement-2016-04-04

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Slivers get 10th place in the Pauper Gauntlet S03

The playoff is over. Slivers wins with a 5-0 record. Now the top 9 decks will decide which deck wins the Pauper Gauntlet

See below for the exacts standings of the decks in the playoff.

What is the Pauper Gauntlet?
All about the Pauper Gauntlet Season 03: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-pauper-gauntlet.html
All the deck lists: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet-s03.html

The nine decks that are still in the competition (the top 9)
Aristocrats by Paul Jones:  http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/gb-suicide-is-painless/
Bant Sword and Shield by Paul Jones: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/bant-sword-and-shield/
Bugs & Pigs: By Galactic President. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/bugs-pigs-20/
Cyborgs by jphsnake: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/cyborgs-1/
Green One: By Deluxeicoff. http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/09/pauper-gauntlet-competitor-1-green-one.html
Mono Black Control by Mario. 
Pig Trinket by Power_T: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2015/11/the-decks-powert-submitted-to-pauper.html
Spiteful Leeches by Bava: http://magicgatheringstrat.com/2015/11/spiteful-leeches-a-combo-list-for-pauper-gauntlet-s3/
WW Soul Tokens by Bava: http://magicgatheringstrat.com/2015/12/ww-soul-tokens-in-the-pauper-gauntlet/




What happens now?
 Round eight begins on Monday April 4th. We are now in weekly rounds.
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Top ten decks still alive
BUGs & Pigs and Green One remains alive as the only two Top Ten decks from last season.

The Eliminations to this point

The playoff for the 10th spot in the top 10
10th place: Slivers (won the playoff)
11th place: Stompy Tokens, Mono Red Heroic (round five in the playoff)
13th place: Goblin Storm, BorosKitty Initiated (round four in the playoff)
15pth place: Stompy (round three in the playoff)
16th place: RUG Tron, Izzet Cooldotha and UG Madness 

Round seven eliminations - the decks in the Top 10 Playoff: BorosKitty Initiated, Slivers, Mono Red Heroic, Stompy, UG Madness,  RUG Tron and Izzet Cooldotha. 
19th place (round six): Infect, Blue Bichinho, Death Control, Burn (runner-up from last season) and Pauper Nightmare. 
24th place (round five) Illusory Tricks, White Heroes, Goblins, Suicide Black, Turbo Angler, Simic Oracle, Kuldotha Mardu, Elves, Rhystic Tron, MUC, Black Auramancer, Love Train, 
36th place (round four) Counter-Kitty,UB Trinket Control, Rakdos Vampires, Flying Ninjas, Turbo Zoo, Shroudfang Ninja. Delver, Green Ramp LD, Snow-Go, Turbo Exhume
45th place: Shared by the 26 decks eliminated in round threeAffinity, Exhume Control, Familiars, Rebel Grind, Pestilence Control, Encroaching Blight, Green Grifters, The Pauper Gauntlet, Project X, Tortured Toolbox, RG Land Crusher, RG Landfall, DelverFiend, Eggs, Gary Busey LD, Selesnya Flash, Abzan Grindhouse, Bant Fog, Crocajund, BUG Proliferators, Evil Allies, Land-o-derm, Pig Trinket, Sultai Delve, 5-color Green
70th place: Shared by nine decks that died during double Elimination, (round one and two): Red Land Destruction, Mono Black Land Destruction, Glass Cannon Red, Tortured Madness,  Cheaty Morph, Living End, 1-land Spy, UB Justice Control and Dragon Delve.

Round 1 ended 56-22 (72% match win rate)
Round 2 ended 13-9 (59% win)
Round 3 ended 43-26 (62% win)
Round 4 ended 32-11 (74% win - best win rate so far in Pauper Gauntlet history!)
Round 5 ended 23-12 (66% win)
Round 6 ended 18-5 (78% win) - a new record!
Round 7 ended 9-9 (50% win!)

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