Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.01.02-03

Happy New Year! Only two lists to peek at this week, but what interesting things do they have?

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 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Opposition Agent
3 Steel Sabotage

revenantkioku (32nd Place) Differences

Main (2)
1 Island
1 Portent
Sideboard (5)
2 Dress Down
1 Energy Flux
1 Murktide Regent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

FGC (5-0) Differences

Main (2)
1 Fetch Land
1 Lotus Petal
Sideboard (5)
1 Duress
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Island
1 Massacre
1 Opposition Agent

Total Differences

Draw (1)
1 Portent

Mana/L⁣ands (3)
1 Fetch Land
1 Island
1 Lotus Petal
Sideboard (10)
2 Dress Down
1 Duress
1 Energy Flux
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Island
1 Massacre
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

I do hope this does not become me comparing my own list to someone else's every week. That'd be... Well, awesome that I am placing in the challenges but awkward because who doesn't like growth?


FGC chose the Lotus Petal for faster games and I stuck to the standard Portent. Nothing too exciting here. Perhaps some looking around for a new card to use in the main flex spots is necessary. I am currently low on ideas.


I want to pretend that the double Dress Down did something, but it barely came into play and often I wished I had another Fatal Push. Massacre in the League List makes me feel like White Aggro must be showing up a lot in the leagues. I doubt I'd bring it to a big tournament.
I was fairly disappointed in Energy Flux as it often rotted away in my hand as my lands got Wasted, Stripped and Ghost Quarter'd away. Hurkyl's Recall might be the right choice.

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