Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.10.16-17
- Eric
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- on Oct 25, 2021
Another week with five lists, but we have some interesting things going on here.
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 (20) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 1 Dig Through Time 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep 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 (0) |
XShockWaveX (8th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Peek | Sideboard (15) 1 Duress 1 Flusterstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 4 Steel Sabotage 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
onewaygarden (23rd Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Flusterstorm 1 Island 2 Opposition Agent 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (15) 2 Fatal Push 1 Nihil Spellbomb 2 Null Rod 4 Steel Sabotage 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 4 Tormod's Crypt |
revenantkioku (8th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (15) 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 1 Null Rod 1 Pithing Needle 4 Steel Sabotage 2 Surgical Extraction 4 Thing in the Ice |
musasabi (25th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Consider 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Dispute | Sideboard (15) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 3 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SingPanMan (32nd Place) Differences
Total Differences
| Creatures (2) 2 Opposition Agent Draw (5) 1 Consider 1 Peek 1 Portent 2 Treasure Cruise Tutors (4) 4 Demonic Consultation Counters (8) 4 Flusterstorm 4 Mystical Dispute Removal (1) 1 Chain of Vapor Lands (5) 3 Fetch Lands 1 Island 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (19) 11 Leyline of the Void 1 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Planar Void 2 Surgical Extraction 4 Tormod's Crypt Artifacts (26) 6 Hurkyl's Recall 4 Null Rod 16 Steel Sabotage Discard (2) 2 Duress Creatures (9) 1 Hullbreacher 3 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 4 Thing in the Ice Lands (4) 4 Island Counters (4) 1 Flusterstorm 2 Mindbreak Trap 1 Pact of Negation Removal (10) 1 Echoing Truth 4 Fatal Push 5 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Other (1) 1 Pithing Needle |
Thoughts
Even though we have a 55 card Core, it has been a while since everyone had entirely different sideboards.
The mains are honestly not that different this time. As you can see, onewaygarden registered a list similar to Clone9's. No idea if this is an alt or just someone who took the list and ran with it. XShockWaveX chose Chain of Vapor over an extra counterspell, but the rest is fairly standard. Even SingPanMan running Watery Grave.
onewaygarden is again very similar to what Clone9 had been running. SingPanMan tried out Hullbreacher but said it should have been Opposition Agent. Worth trying, at least. I also like the Echoing Truth as it can deal with lots of permanents, including the Construct tokens made by Urza's Saga.
So the thing you may notice that sticks out is my playset of Thing in the Ice. I'll be honest, this wasn't completely my idea. I ran across this tweet from the newly crowned World Champion, Yuta Takahashi.
Doomsday would never play Tarmogoyf, but we sure could use Thing in the Ice. It protec, it attac, it send creatues bac, as the old meme would go. So I gave it a try.
I was impressed.
Really impressed. It bought time when I wanted it to, and it won a few games. We've tried many creatures in Doomsday, but to be fair we do not win by damage. In general. But most Vintage decks damage themselves enough that a flipped Thing can be a two, or even one, turn clock. Thanks, Mana Crypt.
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