Recent Past Throwback Standard Gauntlet League
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| Recent Past Throwback Standard Gauntlet League | |||||
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| Magic: The Gathering Online | |||||
| Event Details | |||||
| Event date | November 8 to 17, 2017 | ||||
| Format | Standard | ||||
| Themes and mechanics | Historical decks from 2014 to 2016 Standards. | ||||
| Number of decks | 10 decks | ||||
| Deck size | 75 cards | ||||
| Magic Online Gauntlets | |||||
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| Digital preconstructed decks | |||||
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Recent Past Throwback Standard Gauntlet League was a phantom preconstructed event held on Magic Online between November 8 and 17, 2017. The "Recent Past" for the event consisted of decks from the Standard environments between Theros and Shadows Over Innistrad[1].
Abzan
A 
deck that was palyed by Seth Manfield to win the 2015 World Championship.
| “ | The most successful of the clans must be the Abzan. Premier event Top 8s were littered with versions of this deck, ranging from Aggro to Megamorph to Control. All of them featured the most powerful four-mana creature of all time: Siege Rhino. The version we’re using here is the one Seth Manfield used to win his World Championship in a thrilling five-game mirror match against Owen Turtenwald.[1] | ” |
Abzan
Abzan was the fourth best performing deck in the Gauntlet[2].
Bant Company
A 
deck played by Brian Braun-Duin to win the 2016 World Championship.
| “ | Whether it was fueling Cryptolith Rite and “Aristocrats”-style combos, putting tons of synergistic Humans into play, or just putting lots of good three-mana green creatures onto the table, you couldn’t play Standard without at least a few of your opponents tapping four mana and looking at their top six cards to see what company they could collect. This specific list is the one Brian Braun-Duin used to win his World Championship.[1] | ” |
Bant Company
Bant Company was the third best performing deck in the Gauntlet[2].
Black Devotion
A monoblack Devotion deck.
| “ | While the blue devotion deck dominated the Pro Tour, it was not the most relevant devotion deck throughout the year. Kentaro Yamamoto quietly made that Top 8 with a Mono-Black Devotion deck sporting two copies of draft bomb Pack Rat. One week later, the trio of Brad Nelson, Brian Braun-Duin, and Todd Anderson all made Top 8 at Grand Prix Louisville with the same deck, and BBD took home the title. A month later, Owen Turtenwald used a version with four Pack Rats to win Grand Prix Albuquerque. The rest is history.[1] | ” |
Black Devotion
Black Devotion was only the sixth best performing deck in the Gauntlet[2].
Blue Devotion
A monoblue Devotion deck.
| “ | The breakout deck when Theros made its Pro Tour debut was Mono-Blue Devotion, with Jeremy Dezani defeating teammate Pierre Dagen in a mirror match in the finals. The deck didn’t get many more cards throughout its time in Standard, but it stayed very relevant and continued to put up results throughout the year.[1] | ” |
Blue Devotion
Esper Dragons
A typal Dragon control deck played by Shota Yasooka.
| “ | The control deck of choice after Sphinx's Revelation rotated out used anywhere from six to ten Dragons alongside “dragon-matters” cards like Silumgar's Scorn, Foul-Tongue Invocation, and (sometimes) Crux of Fate. To the surprise of absolutely no one, the most successful of these control players was Shota Yasooka, who used this version to put up the Pro Tour Top 8 that helped push him into the Hall of Fame.[1] | ” |
Esper Dragons
Green-White Tokens
A deck which Steve Rubin used to win a Pro Tour.
| “ | Steve Rubin won the Pro Tour with this deck, and it went on to be the defining deck of Standard for quite a few months. It’s not always the case that the deck that wins the Pro Tour goes on to dominate Standard, but that’s what happened in this case. This list was able to weather the early aggro storm from the Humans deck that dominated the previous weeks while also going over the top of the Collected Company decks via Archangel Avacyn.[1] | ” |
Green-White Tokens
Sideboard (15)
Green-White Tokens was the best-performing deck in the Gauntlet, with a win rate of 60%. As a consequence it was also featured in the Best of Throwback Standard Gauntlet League[2].
Red Aggro
A monored aggro deck.
| “ | Martin Dang was the first one to show us the power of red decks in the allegedly three-color world, winning Pro Tour Dragons of Tarkir with Atarka Red. Joel Larssen then refined the strategy after Magic Origins was added to Standard, streamlining the deck into this mono-red version he used to win that set’s Pro Tour.[1] | ” |
Red-Green Monsters
A 
ramp deck.
| “ | This was a good era for ramp decks, as three different cheap mana creatures were all legal at the same time. Beyond that, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx provided crazy amounts of mana early enough in the game that players could run four copies of a seven-mana Dragon and feel good about themselves for doing it. Variations of this basic strategy ranged from Dragon decks to Megamorph decks, but we’re going with the version that made Top 8 at the Pro Tour by leaning heavily on devotion and the power of Nykthos.[1] | ” |
Red-Green Monsters was the second-best performing deck in the Gauntlet with a win rate of 57%[2].
Sidisi Whip
A deck played by Shahar Shenhar to win the 2014 World Championship.
| “ | Khans of Tarkir introduced quite a few powerful three-color cards to Standard, and all five of its clans showed up in Top 8s over the two years it was legal. Sultai (blue-black-green) probably peaked in the hands of Shahar Shenhar when he used this deck to win his second consecutive World Championship. His deck combined the graveyard-filling power of Sidisi, Brood Tyrant with the reanimation ability of Whip of Erebos to harness a constant stream of both power and value.[1] | ” |
Sidisi Whip
Sphinx’s Rev Control
A control deck as played to win a Pro Tour by Ivan Floch.
| “ | White-blue-based control decks were a fixture of Standard throughout the time Sphinx's Revelation was legal. The ability to trade cards in the early game, focusing on staying alive and making land drops, paired remarkably well with the ability to eventually draw X cards and gain X life. Pretty much every color showed up as a splash in various versions of the archetype, but we’re using the version that won the Pro Tour in the hands of Ivan Floch, and it didn’t use a splash color at all.[1] | ” |
Sphinx’s Rev Control
References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Randy Buehler (November 1, 2017). "Throwback Standard Gauntlet 9: Recent Past (website)". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on November 09, 2020. Retrieved on May 22, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e Randy Buehler (November 29, 2017). "Best of Throwback Standard Gauntlet (website)". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved on May 20, 2025.