Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.11.13-14

Only three lists this week. Is Doomsday on its way out? Or is it just the tides of time?

Sunday Challenge

League

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 (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 (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 (10)
1 Island
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Opposition Agent
4 Steel Sabotage

revenantkioku (23rd Place) Differences

Main (2)
1 Fetch Land
1 Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (5)
1 Duress
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Null Rod
1 Opposition Agent

SingPanMan (25th Place) Differences

Main (2)
1 Portent
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (5)
1 Dress Down
1 Null Rod
1 Opposition Agent
1 Planar Void
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Enrichetta (5-0) Differences

Main (2)
1 Consider
1 Fetch Land
Sideboard (5)
2 Fatal Push
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Draw (3)
1 Consider
1 Portent
1 Treasure Cruise

L⁣ands (3)
2 Fetch Lands
1 Watery Grave
Graveyard (3)
2 Leyline of the Void
1 Planar Void

Artifacts (3)
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Null Rod

Discard (1)
1 Duress

Creatures (2)
2 Opposition Agent

Removal (4)
2 Fatal Push
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Other (2)
1 Dress Down
1 Pithing Needle

Thoughts

If SingPanMan shows up, there's going to be Watery Grave, Planar Void and maybe something being tested.


The main lists are almost identical this list. The most unique thing is Enrichetta's use of Consider, which I'd like more if Treasure Cruise were also in the list. There isn't that much space, unfortunately.


Everyone was on at least one Opposition Agent this week, and while Leyline of the Void felt pointless to me, I wanted to try a list without Thing in the Ice to see if I was leaning on it too much recently. I think SingPanMan's usage of Dress Down is probably correct. It that deals with Construct tokens, gives a window to play around Lavinia and other hatebears, and can even see play in the Doomsday mirror match.

Eternal Weekend is coming up 11/27-28, so I'll be doing some practice to see where I want to be for that. I'll also be streaming all three events, and will be on Doomsday for all of them. Wish me luck!


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