Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.12.25-26
- Eric
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- on Dec 31, 2021
Merry Xmas! This is the last weekend of 2021, so let's check out these five lists before 2022 comes and brings even more weirdly overpowered creatures to the game of Magic.
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 (20) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 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 (4) 3 Steel Sabotage 1 Fatal Push |
Condescend (12th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent | Sideboard (11) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
ecobaronen (17th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Flusterstorm 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (11) 2 Fatal Push 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 2 Mystical Dispute 3 Ravenous Trap 1 Steel Sabotage |
pokerswizard (22nd Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent | Sideboard (11) 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Sedgemoor Witch 1 Steel Sabotage 1 Thoughtseize |
discoverN (21st Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent | Sideboard (11) 2 Energy Flux 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Clone9 (5-0) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Force of Negation 1 Island 1 Opposition Agent 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (11) 3 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Null Rod 1 Steel Sabotage 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang |
Total Differences
| Draw/Tutor (10) 4 Demonic Consultation 3 Portent 1 Sleight of Hand 2 Treasure Cruise Creatures (1) 1 Opposition Agent Counters (8) 1 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Negation 3 Mystical Dispute Removal (1) 1 Chain of Vapor Lands (5) 3 Fetch Lands 1 Island 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (19) 16 Leyline of the Void 3 Ravenous Trap Artifacts (10) 3 Energy Flux 2 Hurkyl's Recall 2 Null Rod 3 Steel Sabotage Discard (1) 1 Thoughtseize Creatures (7) 2 Murktide Regent 2 Opposition Agent 2 Sedgemoor Witch 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang Lands (5) 4 Island 1 Library of Alexandria Counters (4) 2 Mindbreak Trap 2 Mystical Dispute Removal (9) 7 Fatal Push 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
It's been a year for Doomsday for sure, as we've not changed much, gotten hardly any new cards, but seen lots of shifts in what is played to battle the meta. And many players have done very well! Congrats to all who made top 8s or even took down challenges and other events!
Clone9 makes the 5-0 league list without playing Demonic Consultation. I see the power of Opposition Agent in the main, but I still think I'd want it over Necropotence rather than cutting out a piece our other combo. Portent continues to be more popular than Treasure Cruise. I do like seeing Sleight of Hand to combat Narset and Leovold.
discoverN has moved to two copies of Energy Flux, which is probably getting better by the day as Urza's Saga and other Tinker decks flourish and Ravager Shops makes a comeback.
Clone9 playing the full set of Fatal Push tells me Mono White is showing up a lot in leagues.
I don't like the Sedgemoor Witches in pokerswizard's side as the card is a bit too slow for what Doomsday wants to be doing. Murktide Regent is a clock and can stop Hollow One. Opposition Agent steals games. If they were on the Ravenous Trap plan I could almost see an argument for the Witches. As is, they still fail to impress me when I try them.
So that's 2021! I missed a few weeks this year, but I feel pretty good about how this data project has been coming along. Sadly, I did not save the data in a way I could do something for a year-end compilation, but with meta shifts I'm not sure how interesting or useful that is anyway. If you have any ideas for how I could further expand on this data in 2022, please let me know!
Have a good one.
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