Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2020.11.07-08
- Eric
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- on Nov 12, 2020
2020.11.07 Challenge Decks
2020.11.08 Challenge Decks
2020.11.08 League Deck
2020.11.08 Preliminary Deck
Let's take a look at the core of these seven decks.
Core
| Creatures (4) 2 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (12) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Time Walk Instants (20) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 2 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor | Lands (7) 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Flooded Strand 4 Underground Sea Artifacts (3) 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Sapphire Enchantments (1) 1 Necropotence Sideboard (4) 4 Steel Sabotage |
The core isn't surprising at this point in the deck's life.
As far as the sideboard goes, it seems Steel Sabotage has become the official four-of for Shops. Other than that, it's up to personal taste.
Now let's take a look at the differences.
2020.11.07 Challenge SingPanMan (19th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Cling to Dust 1 Peek 1 Street Wraith Interaction (3) 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Mana (2) 1 Snow-Covered Island 1 Island Fetches (5) 1 Polluted Delta 3 Flooded Strand 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (11) 1 Gurmag Angler 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Duress 3 Surgical Extraction 1 Eliminate 1 Massacre 1 Null Rod 1 Library of Alexandria |
2020.11.07 Challenge billster47 (28th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 2 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise Interaction (3) 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Duress 1 Force of Negation Mana (1) 1 Snow-Covered Island Fetches (6) 2 Scalding Tarn 3 Misty Rainforest 1 Flooded Strand | Sideboard (11) 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 Duress 1 Feed the Swarm 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Surgical Extraction 1 Snow-Covered Island 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
2020.11.08 Challenge _INF_ (12th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Street Wraith 1 Peek 1 Treasure Cruise Interaction (3) 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation Mana (1) 1 Snow-Covered Island Fetches (6) 3 Flooded Strand 1 Misty Rainforest 2 Polluted Delta | Sideboard (11) 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 2 Mindbreak Trap 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Snow-Covered Island 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
2020.11.08 Challenge Tiemuuu (24th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 2 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise Interaction (3) 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation Mana (1) 1 Island Fetches (6) 1 Flooded Strand 3 Polluted Delta 2 Scalding Tarn | Sideboard (11) 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 2 Duress 1 Mystical Dispute 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Island 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
2020.11.08 Challenge SingPanMan (31st Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Street Wraith 1 Cling to Dust 1 Peek Interaction (3) 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Mana (3) 1 Island 1 Watery Grave 1 Snow-Covered Island Fetches (4) 1 Polluted Delta 3 Flooded Strand | Sideboard (11) 1 Gurmag Angler 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Duress 1 Eliminate 1 Massacre 3 Surgical Extraction 1 Null Rod 1 Library of Alexandria |
2020.11.08 League IdraftTheBeatz (5-0) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Street Wraith 1 Cling to Dust 1 Peek Interaction (3) 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Mana (3) 1 Island 1 Snow-Covered Island 1 Watery Grave Fetches (4) 2 Misty Rainforest 2 Scalding Tarn | Sideboard (11) 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Duress 1 Eliminate 1 Force of Despair 2 Null Rod 1 Library of Alexandria 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
2020.11.08 Preliminary sandydogmtg (3-2) Differences
| Draw (2) 1 Peek 1 Treasure Cruise Interaction (3) 1 Daze 2 Flusterstorm Mana (3) 1 Lotus Petal 1 Island 1 Watery Grave Fetches (5) 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Flooded Strand 2 Polluted Delta | Sideboard (11) 2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 2 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl's Recall 2 Mystical Dispute 1 Island 3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Breakdown
We can see almost everyone had 3 Draw, 3 Interaction, and 7 Lands. (sandydogmtg replaced one piece of Draw with a Lotus Petal.)
| Mana (39) 1 Lotus Petal 5 Island 5 Snow-Covered Island 12 Flooded Strand 9 Polluted Delta 7 Scalding Tarn |
Watery Grave has been a recent addition in what seems to be an attempt to squeeze in more Black sources while becoming a bit more resilient to Underground Sea being hit with Surgical Extraction. There does not seem to be a correlation between playing Watery Grave and not playing more Daze.
| Draw (20) 8 Street Wraith 3 Cling to Dust 5 Peek 4 Treasure Cruise |
Extra Draw comes in four types. Street Wraith is the most common because it is "free", and while Treasure Cruise won't be cast post-Doomsday, it can be a powerful refill. Cling and Peek both offer a bit of interaction for Bazaar and Xerox decks respectively. Cling can also play well when fighting an opposing Deathrite Shaman or Surgical Extraction, so choosing between these four comes down to meta calls and preference. Street Wraith is worse when there is more Aggro and Treasure Cruise can be clunky when your opponent is playing lots of counterspells.
| Interaction (21) 3 Chain of Vapor 1 Daze 1 Duress 7 Flusterstorm 6 Force of Negation 3 Mystical Dispute |
Sideboard Analysis
| Bazaar (30) 10 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 8 Surgical Extraction 12 Leyline of the Void Shops (6) 4 Null Rod 2 Hurkyl's Recall Discard (9) 9 Duress Creatures (8) 2 Gurmag Angler 6 Tasigur, the Golden Fang | Extra Lands (7) 2 Island 2 Snow-Covered Island 3 Library of Alexandria Counters (5) 2 Mindbreak Trap 3 Mystical Dispute Removal (12) 3 Chain of Vapor 3 Eliminate 2 Fatal Push 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Force of Despair 2 Massacre |
Gurmag Angler has been showing up here and there instead of Tasigur here and there and I'll be honest that I'm not seeing the advantage, other than potentially in Doomsday mirrors?
I should probably list Null Rod as PO-hate, where it probably shines more than against Shops, but it clearly has its applications against the less aggro Shops builds.
Massacre is a logical response to the increase of Thalia-based Hatebears decks on the rise as of late. Feed the Swarm is interesting for its uses against Oath of Druids and _maybe_ Necropotence as well as the standard variety of creatures, but I'm not sure the life-loss and Sorcery-speed will have it earning its place anytime soon.
None of the rest particularly stands out this week, although Duress does seem to be up a bit more than usual.
Best of luck to everyone playing in this upcoming weekend's events!