Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.09.18-19
- Eric
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- on Sep 23, 2021
Two decks this week. Blame me for getting 33rd and not 32nd. Sorry. But, well, since I was the only Doomsday Player on Sunday heck, I'll throw my list into the mix. Three decks!
In fact! If you play Doomsday in a Challenge and do not hit top 32, hit me up with the decklist so I can put it into the data.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Core and Differences
Core
| Creatures (6) 4 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (12) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Time Walk Instants (22) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 3 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor | Lands (13) 8 Fetch Lands 1 Island 4 Underground Sea Artifacts (3) 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Sapphire Enchantments (1) 1 Necropotence Sideboard (4) 2 Fatal Push 2 Steel Sabotage |
MaxMagicer (22nd Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent | Sideboard (11) 1 Duress 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
_INF_ (25th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Force of Negation 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (11) 1 Duress 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
revenantkioku (33rd Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Pact of Negation 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (11) 1 Cavern of Souls 3 Force of Negation 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Null Rod 1 Pact of Negation 2 Surgical Extraction 2 Thoughtseize |
Total Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Portent 2 Treasure Cruise Counters (3) 2 Force of Negation 1 Pact of Negation Lands (3) 1 Fetch Land 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (10) 8 Leyline of the Void 2 Surgical Extraction Artifacts (7) 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Null Rod 4 Steel Sabotage Discard (4) 2 Duress 2 Thoughtseize Creatures (1) 1 Opposition Agent Lands (4) 2 Island 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Cavern of Souls Counters (5) 3 Force of Negation 1 Pact of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap Removal (2) 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
With all the Golos Shops around, you'd think Doomsday would be doing better. But there is the BUG factor, perhaps? I only faced it once in the Sunday challenge and had some bum luck. I also lost to White Hatebears playing Angel's Grace, so, Garfield help us all.
Mostly normal main decks, although I am starting to like Pact of Negation. Well. In theory? I have never actually needed it, but often put it in piles in place of Flusterstorm. I wouldn't have needed Flusterstorm either in those cases, but having Pact let me save on mana and potentially deal with other things. Testing still needs to be done.
MaxMagicer and _INF_ have respectable and normal sideboards. I played similar to TheJigisAlway's up from last week, although less all-in on the Pithing Needle for Bazaar. I played against zero Bazaar decks and it looks like there were two in the entire event. So even though I didn't actually side in Surgical Extraction this tournament, that was the right call and seems to be such for the time being.
So where does this leave Doomsday now? I do not think Midnight Hunt gave us anything. Right now I believe it is just playing to the meta and playing well and Doomsday can have its good days and bad. Watching out for Bazaar coming back is of course something to be wary of. But with the current domination of Golos Shops, right now we just have to play the best we can.
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