Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.11.06-07

Not a particularly interesting week for decklists, but let's have ourselves a little adventure.

Saturday Challenge

Sunday Challenge


_INF_ (10th Place)

Creatures (6)
Street Wraith
Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (12)
Demonic Tutor
Doomsday
Gitaxian Probe
Ponder
Preordain
Time Walk

Instants (23)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dark Ritual
Daze
Demonic Consultation
Dig Through Time
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Force of Will
Gush
Mental Misstep
Mystical Dispute
Mystical Tutor
Vampiric Tutor

Artifacts (4)
Black Lotus
Lotus Petal
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
Necropotence
Lands (14)
Flooded Strand
Island
Misty Rainforest
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Underground Sea

Sideboard (15)
Fatal Push
Leyline of the Void
Library of Alexandria
Mindbreak Trap
Opposition Agent
Snow-Covered Island
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

revenantkioku (19th Place)

Creatures (6)
Street Wraith
Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (13)
Demonic Tutor
Doomsday
Gitaxian Probe
Ponder
Preordain
Time Walk
Treasure Cruise

Instants (23)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dark Ritual
Daze
Demonic Consultation
Dig Through Time
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Force of Will
Gush
Mental Misstep
Mystical Tutor
Pact of Negation
Vampiric Tutor

Artifacts (3)
Black Lotus
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
Necropotence
Lands (14)
Flooded Strand
Island
Misty Rainforest
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Underground Sea

Sideboard (15)
Island
Duress
Fatal Push
Hurkyl's Recall
Mindbreak Trap
Null Rod
Steel Sabotage
Thing in the Ice

Core and Differences

Core

Creatures (6)
Street Wraith
Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (12)
Demonic Tutor
Doomsday
Gitaxian Probe
Ponder
Preordain
Time Walk

Instants (21)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dark Ritual
Daze
Dig Through Time
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Force of Will
Gush
Mental Misstep
Mystical Tutor
Vampiric Tutor
Lands (13)
Fetch Lands
Island
Underground Sea

Artifacts (3)
Black Lotus
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
Necropotence

Sideboard (5)
Fatal Push
Steel Sabotage

01 Clone9 (15th Place) Differences

Main (4)
Island
Opposition Agent
Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (10)
Fatal Push
Nihil Spellbomb
Null Rod
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Tormod's Crypt

02 karatedom (21st Place) Differences

Main (4)
Demonic Consultation
Fetch Land
Merchant Scroll
Mystical Dispute
Sideboard (10)
Duress
Fatal Push
Hurkyl's Recall
Island
Leyline of the Void
Opposition Agent
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

03 _INF_ (10th Place) Differences

Main (4)
Demonic Consultation
Fetch Land
Lotus Petal
Mystical Dispute
Sideboard (10)
Island
Leyline of the Void
Library of Alexandria
Mindbreak Trap
Opposition Agent
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

04 revenantkioku (19th Place) Differences

Main (4)
Demonic Consultation
Fetch Land
Pact of Negation
Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (10)
Duress
Fatal Push
Hurkyl's Recall
Island
Mindbreak Trap
Null Rod
Thing in the Ice

Total Differences

Main (16)
Demonic Consultation
Fetch Lands
Island
Lotus Petal
Merchant Scroll
Mystical Dispute
Opposition Agent
Pact of Negation
Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (40)
Duress
Fatal Push
Hurkyl's Recall
Island
Leyline of the Void
Library of Alexandria
Mindbreak Trap
Nihil Spellbomb
Null Rod
Opposition Agent
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Thing in the Ice
Tormod's Crypt

Thoughts

Clone9 is back with the main Opposition Agents, but the interesting thing here is the copy of Merchant Scroll karatedom tried. While Doomsday is mostly a Blue deck, our main combo pieces are obviously not Blue Instants. That said, putting it in instead of the draw card does offer some flexibility, but I'm personally not convinced.


Someone asked why I didn't put the average number of sideboard cards, so now here it is. There's still nothing particularly interesting here. I'm slowly losing some steam with Thing in the Ice, but I think I might have been overusing them. Vintage sideboarding is much more of a delicate dance. Although with the number of Bazaar decks I have been running into, Leyline of the Void could easily be Kobolds of Kher Keep and I'd notice no difference.


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