It is Stompy vs Burn.
The result of round 12 was surprising.
Stompy ran into my Magic mentor, Power_T, playing RB LD Flashback (?).
Burn went up against Affinity. I have played this matchup from both sides several times in the Gauntlet and I feel that Burn is slightly favored. My opponent disagreed. He managed to land the right number of early 4/4s and proceeded to destroy me.
So with both deck losing in round 12 (after they both went 11-0), the Gauntlet goes into the tournament rounds.
Here are the competitors:
Stompy
Championed by Denofbears
This very aggressive weenie deck has crushed every opponent with cheap green creatures and pump spells.
Deck list here: http://magicgatheringstrat.com/2014/07/pauper-gauntlet-competitor-13-stompy/
Burn
Championed by jphsnake
Casting 7 lightning bolts to the face is still a viable tactic in magic it seems. Despite having played this deck a lot I only had a 55% winning record before I switched to this build right before the Gauntlet. And it seems to have worked!
Deck list: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2013/11/the-top-decks-of-pauper-burn.html
Upcoming rounds
Round 13 is the two-man round. Both decks play a two-man tournament. There is about 50% chance that the Gauntlet continues into round 14 after that (if both decks win or both decks lose).
Round 14 is the eight-man round. This should settle things. I sure hope it does because if it doesn't I am going to have to play middle-of-the-night Pauper Daily Events in round 15. More about that next week if it happens, but hopefully we will have a winner to present here.
Which deck do you think will win the Pauper Gauntlet?
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:
The twitter account @MagicGathStrat tweets whenever a video is uploaded to the two YouTube channels that feature the Gauntlet: MagicGatheringStrat and sngprop.
