I present to you....the standard gauntlet!
Standard forum
Posted on Aug. 16, 2013, 8:39 p.m. by Wabbbit
Seeing a modern gauntlet come up, I just had to make a standard one. These eight decks are to be used to test your decks metal before game day, or just to see how good your new tweaks are. I can see the gauntlet being very helpful for standard players, and if you beat all eight decks in a best two out of three matchup, ill +1 eight of your decks! May not be much, but I don't have any feature tokens to give out :/. Just post a comment on my wall telling me how many games you beat each deck by. You must win all of them in a row, if you lose a game you must star over. Of course you could lie, but that takes all the fun out of it :P. The LV1 and so on in the decks names is what level they are in the gauntlet, one being the hardest and eight being the weakest. All these decklists are pulled off of the dailymtg Grand Prix Warsaw top eight and top sixteen. Hope you enjoy battling against these decks!
I love the concept, even if I don't play standard that often. I may have to try it out.
August 16, 2013 9:11 p.m.
Swept it pretty easily with my mono red aggro. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/rdw-05-02-13-5/ is the deck
August 16, 2013 11:30 p.m.
Hmm, surprised your deck isn't in the top 8's if it beats all of the best decks in standard easily! Nice build!
August 16, 2013 11:59 p.m.
Tell me me the matchups you won and make sure you followed the rules and I'll +1 eight of your decks of your choice!
August 17, 2013 12:01 a.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #10
I'm gonna use For Victory or Death. I mean, I don't have crazy hopes for it since its a post-rotation build, but it would kick ass if I won with it. I haven't been able to start, but now I'm off work, so its going down.
August 17, 2013 1:50 a.m.
rakdosrunner says... #11
buffy, hey man, I went through and I wanted to see how I did. I actually lost to the Jund Midrange Lvl 5.
I went on to see how I would fair against the other decks and I actually beat all other even the Domri Gruul. I actually destroyed the Gruul but I obviously must have played it wrong lol
Anyways thanks for the fun little game.
August 17, 2013 2:26 a.m.
Looks awesome. I'm going to paste all of these into MTG Forge when I get a chance.
August 17, 2013 4:03 a.m.
Schuesseled says... #13
Got past level 8 and 7 but was stopped at 6, those auras are nuts.
August 17, 2013 7:50 a.m.
Yeah, Bant Auras is ridiculous.
Have you done it yet, Unforgivn_II?
August 17, 2013 11:25 a.m.
Ahh, so close rakdosrunner :P. Jund Midrange is a tough deck, what were you running?
August 17, 2013 11:26 a.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #16
I got too lazy to copy all of the decks for sideboarding... plus, I spent way too long trying to figure out what the other side would actually do. Its almost as if I won, I would feel guilty cuz I may have misplayed. I got to 1-1 against the first deck then realized siding was kinda important and I had NO idea how to sideboard with someone else's deck.
August 17, 2013 2:14 p.m.
Haha, gotcha. Why don't you just create a new tab and play them agaisnt each other using the tappedout playtester? You don't have to sideboard, it isn't super important :P.
August 17, 2013 2:30 p.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #18
That's what I did. But sideboarding is important, especially if either has dead cards. Plus, the sideboards are so hard to figure out for the top 8s that I didn't want to bother
August 17, 2013 2:32 p.m.
rakdosrunner says... #19
I played my aggro/burn NOPENOPENOPENOPE! (Post-Rotation)
Champloo says... #2
You made my day. <3
August 16, 2013 8:58 p.m.