The Budget Gauntlet Grinder

[For those that have Copperhall Bailiff: -1 Finest Hour, -1 Protect, -1 Awakened Student and -1 Hammer of Might fits in four without missing a beat. Deck works 100% fine without them but they're still a great addition.]

Hello! I've been using this deck to grind Masters Gauntlet successfully, and I can confidently state that it is three things:

Consistent - A low curve and a simple influence base reduce your chances of being screwed out of a run just before getting your silver chests. You can (and will) easily win games with clunky draws, just 3 power is plenty for most of what this deck does.

Resilient - This deck wins with a simple, and very effective strategy - clog the board and swing with one huge flying lifelinker every turn until you win. Redundancy is built into every facet of this deck, ensuring that you can successfully achieve this strategy against every AI deck and most gauntlet bosses.

Cheap. No legendaries. No Copperhall Bailiff requiring you to spend money or skip four drafts.Only 17,500 dust to craft the entire thing from scratch, with several budget options to make it cheaper.

It's not the most exciting deck or strategy, but it boasts a great gauntlet winrate with minimal dust investment.

The "Core"
Paladin Oathbook - Keep in mind the +1/+1 is permanent. This card gives you inevitability, and allows you to play in a way that stalls the board and goes over the top, which helps reduce variance and increases your winrate significantly. Four copies is mandatory.
Silverwing Familiar - Small and unassuming, but easily the single best creature in this deck. Its unique combination of evasion, lifelink, and self-protection allow it to take over games once combined with any weapon or with an Oathbook in play.
Karmic Guardian - The endurance allows you to swing with a huge lifelinker while having little other board presence to protect against a backlash. If you have a protect in hand, you will often want to save playing this until turn 5 (assuming you're not dying very quickly).
Unseen Commando - Dusk Road's greatest contribution to this deck, its ability triggers off attacks from any of your core creatures - including itself. They also stack if you have multiple. On a budget, forge these last, as they cost the most shiftstone.

On a tighter budget, while you can replace most of cards in this deck with other options (explained below), lowering your count of lifelink flyers will seriously harm the deck's ability to function.

The "Equipment"
Vodakhan's Staff - Extremely cost efficient equipment that will come back if removed early on. This is the best equipment for the deck.
Hammer of Might - This is basically just a fifth (slightly more expensive) copy of Vodakhan's Staff. While the warcry is nice, it's often-times going to affect something that isn't going to factor into your gameplan (like having a very large silence creature or wasp).
Gemblade (from Emerald Monument) - Ideally you'll want to let your monuments transmute, but five other +3/+3 weapons means it's not the end of the world if you have to play them for power. Replace with Justice Sigil.

On a tighter budget, replace the 5 weapons with 4xGilded Glaive - that's a savings of 3,600 dust!

Additional Board Presence
Awakened Student - Attacks from these will often clear the air for your real threats as your opponent double and triple blocks them to be rid of their perceived threat. Sometimes they will win you the game on their own.
Rhinarc (from Amber Monument) - Transmuted amber monuments don't fly, but overwhelm means they plays very well with Paladin Oathbook and your weapons. On a budget neither monument is strictly necessary, but between the two I prefer amber over emerald. Replace with Time Sigils.

The Supporting Cast
Finest Hour - The Gauntlet AI is awful at tricks, so you can happily chump attack into huge blowouts with the use of this.
Protect - One of the main problems with the strategy of riding one large guy to victory is that your opponent is going to take every chance to defeat that guy. If your hand is light on threats but big on pump, you will want to wait for an extra influence before running your guys out there.

Clearing the Way (with Silence)
Desert Marshal and Valkyrie Enforcer - While it's tempting to use your 8 copies of silence to get rid of annoying abilities, you can generally out-lifesteal most opposing strategies. Because your deck often relies on attacking with only one attacker and leaving back a board presence of blockers, you will most frequently use silence on a flier to ensure that one attacker can get through. Don't waste these early, just when your creature is large enough to finish in a few swings. (Obvious exception: silence things that are causing you damage very quickly, like "Strangers get +1/+1")

On a tighter budget you can replace Valkyrie Enforcer with Archive Curator. Desert Marshal is not really replaceable, but it's playable in ladder decks so it's a safe investment.

Removal
Vanquish - Sometimes this is the only thing you can do against some lucky draws against decks like Forgemaster.
Scorpion Wasp - Removal that can also turn into a win condition in a pinch.

You prefer more copies of Vanquish over Scorpion Wasp because sometimes you need to kill 4 power blockers, but I like having the split.



This is an updated version of Gauntlet grinder, credit to them for the original deck idea. Happy grinding!