Grand Prix Denver-the journey continues

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Here's our top 32 in Standard from the Denver GP:


1st Temur Energy Brad Nelson
2nd Temur Energy Brian Braun-duin
3rd Ramunap Red John Rolf
4th Temur Energy Corey Baumeister
5th Mono-Black Zombies Collin Rountree
6th Ramunap Red Sam Pardee
7th White-Blue Monument Gregory Michel
8th Ramunap Red Zachary Kiihne
9th White-Blue GPG Edwin Eng
10th Zomb-Emerge Ivan Espinosa
11th Jeskai GPG Corey Burkhart
12th Jeskai GPG Mike Sigrist
13th Ramunap Red Daniel Diaz
14th Mono-White Eldrazi Jonathan Job
15th Jeskai GPG Owen Turtenwald
16th Mono-Black Zombies Charles League
17th Mardu Vehicles Jonathan Coleman
18th 4C Energy Michael Jacob
19th Jeskai GPG Andrew Backstrom
20th Temur Energy Joby Parrish
21th Mono-Black Zombies Vidianto Wijaya
22th White-Blue GPG Zac Elsik
23th Temur Energy Hal Brady
24th Temur Energy Robert Starke
25th Mono-Black Zombies Joshua Hoffeld
26th Mono-Black Zombies Mario Martinez
27th Mardu Vehicles John Phelps
28th Ramunap Red Nathan Smith
29th Temur Energy Alex Gerlock
30th Ramunap Red John Healy
31th Green-White Ramp Raphael Chavez
32th Temur Energy Vince Mallow


So, let's remove the decks that will be gone after rotation and see how many of each deck was applied to achieve the highest ranking.


Number in top 32 Deck Highest Placing
8 Temur Energy 1/2
6 Ramunap Red 3
4 Jeskai GPG 11
2 Mardu Vehicles 17
2 White-Blue GPG 9




As you can see, the more people who play a certain powerful deck, the more make it into the top 32.  The only decks that really stand out in this list to me are the God-Pharaoh's Gift decks (GPG).  Ranked #9  and 11, and only represented by 6 decks in the top 32.  I'm curious to see how many were played in the entire tournament, but you can see by these numbers that this deck has some real staying power. 


This is the list for the White-Blue build.  Gate to the Afterlife and God-Pharaoh's gift is a real thing now.  It was represented in multiple builds. 


Creatures:
3 Angel of Invention
2 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
4 Champion of Wits
4 Glint-Nest Crane
4 Minister of Inquiries
4 Thraben Inspector
4 Walking Ballista


Sorcery:
3 Refurbish


Artifact:
4 Gate to the Afterlife
3 God-Pharaoh's Gift


Land:
4 Aether Hub
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
1 Hostile Desert
3 Ipnu Rivulet
4 Island
7 Plains
4 Port Town
1 Westvale Abbey







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