Innistrad Standard - Gauntlet


So this is a list of decks that are interesting to me in this environment.  I'll be updating this list as deck tech comes out and posting my thoughts. Check back regularly!



Solar Flare - AJ Sacher
26 LANDS
4 Island
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Seachrome Coast
3 Isolated Chapel
2 Drowned Catacomb
2 Swamp
2 Plains
1 Ghost Quarter

9 CREATURES
4 Snapcaster Mage
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Sun Titan
1 Phantasmal Image

21 INSTANTS and SORCERIES
4 Think Twice
4 Mana Leak
4 Forbidden Alchemy
2 Dissipate
2 Doom Blade
2 Day of Judgment
1 Go for the Throat
1 Dismember
1 Unburial Rites

4 OTHER SPELLS
2 Liliana of the Veil
2 Oblivion Ring

SIDEBOARD
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Day of Judgment
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Revoke Existence
3 Purify the Grave
1 Negate
1 Flashfreeze
2 Celestial Purge
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2 Timely Reinforcemen


UR Control - Mike Flores
Artifacts
1 Batterskull
3 Druidic Satchel

Creatures
4 Snapcaster Mage


Instants
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Brimstone Volley
4 Desperate Ravings
3 Dissipate
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Mana Leak
4 Think Twice

Sorceries
3 Slagstorm

Basic Lands
10 Island
7 Mountain

Lands
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Sulfur Falls
Sideboard:

1 Batterskull
1 Druidic Satchel
3 Frost Titan
3 Ancient Grudge
3 Dismember
1 Dissipate
2 Shock
1 Slagstorm
but he said there should be phantasmla images in the board of either as well
since thrun and geist are a problem


Township Tokens by Mikael Conrow 
Finished 1st Place at 2011 States - Virginia
Main Deck
2 Blade Splicer
4 Doomed Traveler
4 Elspeth Tirel
4 Hero of Bladehold
Creatures [14]
1 Beast Within
3 Day of Judgment
3 Dismember
4 Intangible Virtue
4 Midnight Haunting
2 Oblivion Ring
3 Shrine of Loyal Legions
2 Timely Reinforcements
Spells [22]
3 Forest
4 Gavony Township
9 Plains
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Sunpetal Grove

Sideboard
2 Beast Within
2 Celestial Purge
1 Day of Judgment
1 Garruk Relentless
3 Naturalize
3 Purify the Grave
1 Shrine of Loyal Legions
2 Timely Reinforcements

Wolf Run Ramp by Sean Handy 
Finished 1st Place at 2011 States - South Carolina
Main Deck
1 Acidic Slime
1 Birds of Paradise
4 Garruk, Primal Hunter
4 Primeval Titan
3 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Viridian Emissary
1 Wurmcoil Engine
Creatures [18]
2 Batterskull
3 Beast Within
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Rampant Growth
3 Slagstorm
Spells [16]
4 Copperline Gorge
8 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
2 Kessig Wolf Run
4 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag

Sideboard
1 Acidic Slime
4 Ancient Grudge
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
2 Tree of Redemption
1 Wurmcoil Engine

RUG by Joe Price 
Finished 3rd - 4th Place at 2011 States - Arkansas

2 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Frost Titan
3 Garruk, Primal Hunter
2 Inferno Titan
1 Snapcaster Mage
3 Solemn Simulacrum
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
4 Viridian Emissary
Creatures [18]
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Arc Trail
4 Brimstone Volley
1 Caravan Vigil
4 Mana Leak
3 Rampant Growth
1 Slagstorm
1 Sword of War and Peace
Spells [17]
4 Copperline Gorge
6 Forest
3 Hinterland Harbor
3 Island
3 Mountain
3 Rootbound Crag
3 Sulfur Falls

Sideboard
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Arc Trail
1 Batterskull
3 Mayor of Avabruck
2 Naturalize
2 Negate
1 Slagstorm
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Sword of Feast and Famine


UR Control

Creatures - 7
1 Consecrated Sphinx
2 Spellskite
4 Snapcaster Mage

Artifacts - 7
3 Druidic Satchel
1 Batterskull
3 Shrine of Burning Rage

Instants - 19
4 Brimstone Volley
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Mana Leak
2 Dissipate
1 Shock
4 Think Twice


Sorceries - 3
3 Slagstorm

Land - 24
4 Sulfur Falls
6 Mountain
6 Islands
4 Ghost Quarter
4 Rootbound Crag


Sideboard - 15
4 Phantasmal Image
4 Ancient Grudge 
2 Dissipate
1 Druidic Satchel
2 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Frost Titan
1 Inferno Titan 
1 Consecrated Sphinx


Desperate Flare - Edgar Flores
Mainboard
3 Grave Titan
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Sun Titan
Creatures [9]
4 Desperate Ravings
3 Doom Blade
4 Forbidden Alchemy
4 Mana Leak
4 Oblivion Ring
3 Think Twice
3 Unburial Rites
Spells [25]
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Darkslick Shores
4 Glacial Fortress
5 Island
3 Seachrome Coast
3 Shimmering Grotto
4 Sulfur Falls

Sideboard

2 Flashfreeze
4 Geistflame
3 Mental Misstep
3 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Timely Reinforcements



GW Wolf Run by Batutinha (4-0)

1 Acidic Slime
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
4 Garruk, Primal Hunter
4 Primeval Titan
4 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
4 Viridian Emissary
Creatures [20]
3 Beast Within
3 Day of Judgment
3 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Rampant Growth
2 White Sun's Zenith
Spells [15]
8 Forest
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Mountain
2 Plains
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Sunpetal Grove
Lands [25]
Deck Total [60]


1 Acidic Slime
2 Creeping Corrosion
1 Day of Judgment
3 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
4 Timely Reinforcements
2 Wurmcoil Engine
Sideboard [15]



 Township Tokens by Martin Juza
Finished 1st Place at 2011 GP Hiroshima - 10/29


4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Blade Splicer
3 Elspeth Tirel
3 Garruk Relentless
2 Geist-Honored Monk
4 Hero of Bladehold
2 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
4 Mirran Crusader
Creatures [28]
2 Mortarpod
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Overrun
Spells [8]
8 Forest
4 Gavony Township
4 Plains
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Sunpetal Grove
Lands [24]
Deck Total [60]


2 Celestial Purge
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
2 Naturalize
1 Oblivion Ring
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Sword of War and Peace
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
Sideboard [15]



Haunted Humans by Takahiro Shiraki
Finished 2nd Place at 2011 GP Hiroshima - 10/29


4 Champion of the Parish
2 Doomed Traveler
3 Elite Vanguard
2 Fiend Hunter
3 Geist of Saint Traft
4 Grand Abolisher
4 Hero of Bladehold
4 Mirran Crusader
Creatures [26]
3 Angelic Destiny
4 Honor of the Pure
3 Oblivion Ring
Spells [10]
4 Glacial Fortress
1 Island
3 Moorland Haunt
12 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
Lands [24]
Deck Total [60]

2 Batterskull
3 Dismember
4 Leonin Arbiter
3 Shrine of Loyal Legions
3 Timely Reinforcements
Sideboard [15]



 Solar Flare by Akira Asahara
Finished 3rd - 4th Place at 2011 GP Hiroshima - 10/29

Main Deck
Sideboard
3 Consecrated Sphinx
2 Liliana of the Veil
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Sun Titan
Creatures [9]
3 Day of Judgment
4 Dissipate
3 Doom Blade
4 Forbidden Alchemy
4 Mana Leak
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Think Twice
1 Unburial Rites
Spells [25]
4 Darkslick Shores
1 Drowned Catacomb
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Glacial Fortress
3 Island
4 Isolated Chapel
3 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
3 Swamp
Lands [27]
Deck Total [61]


1 Day of Judgment
1 Gideon Jura
2 Jace, Memory Adept
3 Mirran Crusader
1 Negate
2 Nephalia Drownyard
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Timely Reinforcements
1 Wurmcoil Engine
Sideboard [15]





 Bant Pod by Kouichi Tanaka
Finished 5th - 8th Place at 2011 GP Hiroshima - 10/29

Main Deck
Sideboard
3 Acidic Slime
1 Archon of Justice
4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
3 Birds of Paradise
2 Blade Splicer
1 Brindle Boar
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Frost Titan
3 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Skaab Ruinator
2 Solemn Simulacrum
2 Sun Titan
3 Viridian Emissary
1 Wing Splicer
1 Wurmcoil Engine
Creatures [31]
4 Birthing Pod
2 Mimic Vat
Spells [6]
7 Forest
4 Hinterland Harbor
1 Island
2 Plains
4 Razorverge Thicket
3 Seachrome Coast
2 Sunpetal Grove
Lands [23]
Deck Total [60]


2 Brindle Boar
2 Day of Judgment
1 Fiend Hunter
2 Flashfreeze
2 Garruk Relentless
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Stonehorn Dignitary
1 Sunblast Angel
1 Sylvok Replica
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
Sideboard [15]



Haunted Humans by Hiroshi Onizuka
Finished 5th - 8th Place at 2011 GP Hiroshima - 10/29


4 Champion of the Parish
4 Doomed Traveler
4 Gideon's Lawkeeper
4 Grand Abolisher
4 Mirran Crusader
Creatures [20]
4 Honor of the Pure
3 Mana Leak
4 Midnight Haunting
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Sword of War and Peace
Spells [17]
4 Glacial Fortress
1 Island
4 Moorland Haunt
10 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
Lands [23]
Deck Total [60]


2 Celestial Purge
2 Fiend Hunter
2 Flashfreeze
1 Mana Leak
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Sword of War and Peace
4 Timely Reinforcements
Sideboard [15]



 UW Aggro by Craig Wescoe
Main Deck
Sideboard
1 Alabaster Mage
3 Doomed Traveler
2 Fiend Hunter
4 Geist of Saint Traft
4 Grand Abolisher
4 Hero of Bladehold
4 Mirran Crusader
Creatures [22]
1 Angelic Destiny
1 Dismember
3 Gitaxian Probe
4 Honor of the Pure
4 Mana Leak
2 Oblivion Ring
Spells [15]
4 Glacial Fortress
3 Island
3 Moorland Haunt
9 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
Lands [23]
Deck Total [60]


2 Angelic Destiny
1 Celestial Purge
2 Dismember
1 Divine Offering
1 Elspeth Tirel
1 Gut Shot
1 Oblivion Ring
2 Revoke Existence
4 Timely Reinforcements
Sideboard [15]



Darwin Castle Bant Pod

Creatures (28)
1 Acidic Slime
1 Archon of Justice
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Azure Mage
1 Blade Splicer
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Frost Titan
1 Mentor of the Meek
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Razor Hippogriff
1 Skaab Ruinator
1 Stonehorn Dignitary
1 Sun Titan
2 Viridian Emissary
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Merfolk Looter
1 Myr Superion
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Spells (8)
2 Unburial Rites
2 Mimic Vat
4 Birthing Pod
Lands (24)
1 Island
1 Plains
1 Swamp
8 Forest
1 Darkslick Shores
4 Hinterland Harbor
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Seachrome Coast

Sideboard (15)
1 Acidic Slime
1 Brindle Boar
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Grand Abolisher
1 Hollowhenge Scavenger
1 Tree of Redemption
1 Trinket Mage
1 Viridian Corrupter
1 Spellskite
1 Sylvok Replica
2 Day of Judgment
1 Sunblast Angel
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Nihil Spellbomb



Bant Destiny - Meringolo's FNM list

4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Geist of Saint Traft
3 Invisible Stalker
4 Mirran Crusader
3 Skinshifter
2 Thrun, the Last Troll 3 Angelic Destiny
2 Mana Leak
2 Negate
2 Oblivion Ring
3 Sword of War and Peace 4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Seachrome Coast
2 Sunpetal Grove 

2 island 
7 forest 
4 Hinterland Harbor 
1 glacial fortress




Mono Black Infect


By: Smitty of www.60cards.com




The Deck currently considered the only Tier 1 deck in the format. 



Wolf Run Ramp
A Standard Magic deck, by Brian Sondag
1st place at a StarCityGames.com Standard Open tournament in NashvilleTennesseeUnited States on 2011-10-09


Maindeck:

Artifact Creatures
Solemn Simulacrum
Wurmcoil Engine

Creatures
Acidic Slime
Birds of Paradise
Primeval Titan
Viridian Emissary

Instants
Beast Within

Planeswalkers
Garruk, Primal Hunter

Sorceries
Green Sun's Zenith
Rampant Growth
Slagstorm

Basic Lands
Forest
Mountain

Lands
Copperline Gorge
Inkmoth Nexus
Kessig Wolf Run
Rootbound Crag

Sideboard:
Ratchet Bomb
Sword of Feast and Famine
Tree of Redemption
Viridian Corrupter
Ancient Grudge
Thrun, the Last Troll
Slagstorm

Mono Green Wolf Run - Conley Woods www.Channelfireball.com





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