Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.12.11-12
- Eric
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- on Dec 14, 2021
We've got a healthy number of lists this week. Sadly no Doomsday player took down the PTQ, or made it into the top 8.
Qualifier
Saturday Challenge
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 (21) 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 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 (5) 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 3 Steel Sabotage |
StormGuyisme (9th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent |
revenantkioku (18th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (10) 2 Blue Elemental Blast 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 4 Pithing Needle |
ecobaronen (3rd Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Flusterstorm 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 3 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Mystical Dispute 1 Steel Sabotage |
discoverN (25th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN (2nd Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
revenantkioku (19th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Peek | Sideboard (10) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SingPanMan (32nd Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 3 Leyline of the Void 2 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Plague Engineer 1 Planar Void 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Diem4x (5-0) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Draw (9) 1 Peek 5 Portent 1 Sleight of Hand 2 Treasure Cruise Counters (14) 1 Flusterstorm 7 Force of Negation 6 Mystical Dispute Discard (1) 1 Duress Lands (8) 6 Fetch Lands 2 Watery Grave | Graveyard (28) 27 Leyline of the Void 1 Planar Void Artifacts (8) 6 Energy Flux 2 Steel Sabotage Discard (1) 1 Duress Creatures (12) 4 Murktide Regent 7 Opposition Agent 1 Plague Engineer Counters (13) 2 Blue Elemental Blast 8 Mindbreak Trap 3 Mystical Dispute Removal (14) 9 Fatal Push 5 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Other (4) 4 Pithing Needle |
Thoughts
56/5 this week. As much as I tried a few weeks back to find something better than Necropotence, we seem to be best with this main setup for the time being. Doomsday isn't likely to get a new card for a while.
Nothing strange out of the mainboards this week. I tried Peek as opposed to Treasure Cruise, as it seems to be too slow. Diem4x playing Duress over another counterspell makes sense. It's a more proactive version. Portent is the most popular. And as we've seen again and again, it's hard to argue with discoverN's consistency.
The arguments for Pithing Needle over Leyline of the Void were good. My results did not feel as good during the PTQ, and I went back to Leylines and Tabernacle for the Challenge. Energy Flux has mostly caught on and as long as Tinker decks and 8Cast about, it seems to be the right play. discoverN was back on Murktide Regent, and I also found it saving my bacon one game against Dredge.
White Hatebears has been on the rise and we see ecobaronen with the four copies of Fatal Push in the side. I dare say it's getting to the point where a maindeck copy might not be too shabby. That, or maybe Chain of Vapor deserves a mainboard position to deal with these increase in hate pieces that often can't be countered. Thanks, Cavern of Souls.
SingPanMan tried out Plague Engineer, which can nicely deal with Thalia, Ragavan, Spirit of the Labyrinth, Luminarch Aspirant before it starts adding counters, as well as a slew of other creatures. It even blocks Dreadhorde Arcanist quite nicely. Not to mention that it can be cast via Dark Ritual, much like Hydroblast, this seems to be a solid choice depending on the expected meta. Shame that Ichorid is a Horror and not a Zombie.
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