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Gauntlet Grinder - Does Not Lose

Gauntlet Deck By
zilfran

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Hey all - since coming back to the game after a couple years off, I have been trying to find the absolute best gauntlet deck to grind with. In this case, by that I mean a deck that loses as infrequently to the AI as possible (as opposed to speed of this deck, this is on the slightly slower side).

I have been tweaking and re-tweaking this deck for the entire two weeks and I'm pretty sure I've landed on the best possible composition (though there's a whole lot of cards now and I don't know all of them so I could have easily missed something better).

Cards I have used and ended up dismissing:
Acantha Ascending - The deck was originally built around this card and it ultimately just stunk in a control shell
Dreamsnatcher - The 2 drop I tried replacing Acantha with... it was ultimately just worse than the best shadow 2 drop in the game who took the spot in the end.
Valkyrie Enforcer - I had this card in there for quite awhile but she just didn't really do much vs the AI so I ultimately cut her for the Speaking Circles which, as you might expect, overperform in most cases.

The Market is where I had the most fun playing around. I actually love the 5 cards - here are the reasons for them:
At Any Cost - I originally had End of the Line here but then I found this newer card and it does the same thing so much better - you desperately want to be able to gain life in some games and doing so while killing a creature is fabulous.
Deathstrike - Sometimes you just need pure removal and the original "kill anything" card fits nicely
Inquisitor Makto - The most recent addition. For the longest time this had been Burglarize but relic hate is pretty pointless in gauntlet and I often found I just wanted one more piece of action in the market. This is replaceable by any pet favorite piece of action people have.
Stray into Shadow - Harsh Rule #5 is huge vs. the many aggro matchups in Gauntlet.
Dizo's Office - the premiere market card. I go get this card almost every single game as it just ends most games.

Anyway, I know we have some gauntlet grinders out there so I wanted to share this deck with you all. As of this writing, I have not lost with this iteration of the deck (35-0 so far). Obviously this will end eventually since eventually every deck gets power screwed but it is incredibly strong and resilient.

Also, if anyone has questions/suggestions feel free to leave them. Like I said, I've tweaked this A LOT so there are numerous cards I have tried and dismissed as inferior (a couple listed above but I've tried other things also). I'm happy to give more reasoning to card choices if people want it.

Cheers!

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
42,500

Premium Cost
264,000

Influence Requirements
2 6

Power Sources
16 25 16

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Deck Rarities
12 23 17 8 15

Card Types
21 4 25 5 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Jekk's Bounty [Set1001]
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]
Into Shadow [Set1004]
Shadow of the Spire [Set1087]

Archetype
Control

Added
January 4, 2021

Views
1,473

Eternal Version
Empire of Glass

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drewbagel423 Eternal Version: 20.12.23
No Rolant in an Argenport deck?
zilfran Eternal Version: 20.12.23
Quad justice would be impossible for this deck to support.