Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.04.17-18

Only six decks this week. See? Doomsday is nothing to worry about!

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Core and Differences

Core

Creatures (6)
4 Street Wraith
2 Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (13)
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Doomsday
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
1 Portent
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk

Instants (23)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
2 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
Lands (14)
9 Fetch Lands
1 Island
4 Underground Sea

Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence

Sideboard (12)
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
1 Island
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Opposition Agent
4 Steel Sabotage

discoverN (2nd Place) Differences

Main (0)
Sideboard (3)
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

zachattack23 (12th Place) Differences

Main (0)
Sideboard (3)
1 Fatal Push
1 Opposition Agent
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

MaxMagicer (14th Place) Differences

Main (0)
Sideboard (3)
1 Fatal Push
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Falkoneye (32nd Place) Differences

Main (0)
Sideboard (3)
1 Fatal Push
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Diem4x (11th Place) Differences

Main (0)
Sideboard (3)
1 Fatal Push
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Opposition Agent

bennybo (22nd Place) Differences

Main (0)
Sideboard (3)
1 Fatal Push
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Opposition Agent

Total Differences

Sideboard (0)

Creatures (5)
3 Opposition Agent
2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Lands (1)
1 Library of Alexandria

Counters (5)
5 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (7)
5 Fatal Push
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

So this is weird. 60-12 on the core this week. Everyone placed with the same main. That is, the list discoverN has been running. The sideboard is the only difference and there's not much there.

discoverN is the only one on Library of Alexandria. Two copies of Tasigur, the Golden Fang sneak in. They seem to be an alternative to The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. Diem4x and bennybo both forego this extra card for Bazaar, instead choosing to have a second Opposition Agent.

With the amount of BUG and Shops seemingly being played right now, I think discoverN's list is mostly right. I do wonder if we want to start packing a fifth piece of hate for Shops. Either Hurkyl's Recall or Energy Flux would be the best candidate. However, Hurkyl's Recall is difficult to cast in the spot we want it - against multiple hate pieces, and Energy Flux is quite pricy at three mana.
Perhaps a second Fatal Push would work. This works double duty against Phyrexian Revoker from Shops and the many creatures out of BUG. A second Opposition Agent would be a good call if the mirror is on the rise again.

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