Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.01.08-09
- Eric
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- on Jan 11, 2022
Happy... back to work? The holidays are over but we've got Vintage to play.
There's a 53-Main 8-Side Core this week, which is pretty big consistency for sideboards. There are some interesting main choices to look into this week.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Preliminaries
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 (19) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 3 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep | Lands (13) 8 Fetch Lands 1 Island 4 Underground Sea Artifacts (3) 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Sapphire Sideboard (8) 3 Leyline of the Void 1 Opposition Agent 3 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
01 StormGuyisme (4th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Fetch Land 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Portent 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (7) 2 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent |
02 Thiim (22nd Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Consider 1 Flusterstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 1 Lotus Petal 1 Opposition Agent 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (7) 1 Duress 1 Force of Negation 1 Karakas 1 Null Rod 1 Ratchet Bomb 1 Sedgemoor Witch 1 Toxic Deluge |
03 revenantkioku (30th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Opposition Agent 1 Rebuild 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (7) 1 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent |
04 Gathienne (31st Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Fetch Land 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Portent 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (7) 2 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap |
05 revenantkioku (3-1) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Island 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Portent 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (7) 2 Dress Down 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent |
06 AKI114514 (5-0) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Island 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (7) 1 Duress 1 Fatal Push 1 Legion's End 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Steel Sabotage 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang |
Total Differences
| Creatures (2) 2 Opposition Agent Draw/Tutor (19) 1 Consider 5 Mystical Tutor 4 Necropotence 3 Portent 1 Treasure Cruise 5 Vampiric Tutor Counters (11) 5 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 5 Mystical Dispute Discard (1) 1 Duress Removal (2) 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Rebuild Lands/Mana (7) 2 Fetch Lands 3 Island 1 Lotus Petal 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (42) 2 Dress Down 2 Duress 6 Energy Flux 7 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 3 Island 1 Karakas 1 Legion's End 5 Leyline of the Void 5 Mindbreak Trap 3 Murktide Regent 1 Null Rod 1 Ratchet Bomb 1 Sedgemoor Witch 1 Steel Sabotage 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 Toxic Deluge |
Thoughts
Thiim and I had similar thoughts this week. Pack mainboard hate for artifacts. You can get rid of Constructs, impede Shops, bounce Hollow Ones and even pitch Hurkyl's Recall or Rebuild to Force of Will! You'll also notice we did not place very highly. StormGuyisme got a nice solid run just playing discoverN's latest list. (Gathienne did as well but seemed to not have as much luck.) Thiim and I both played maindeck Opposition Agent, which sometimes does work, but again, is this really what we want to be playing? Or are we trying to play UB Midrange with a combo win? Yeah. It's probably not the best choice. I don't agree with cutting Vampiric Tutor and Mystical Tutor, but at least Thiim did it alongside Necropotence, and did not cut Demonic Consultation.
AKI114514's only difference from discoverN's latest main was swapping Portent for Duress, which I think is a solid choice.
The sideboards are fairly standard, with Thiim playing Sedgemoor Witch, which again makes me worry if we're just trying to side into bad midrange. Karakas is nice to handle the bevy of Legendary creatures we've got going around these days. Tasigur is an oldie-but-goodie, and might be a solid choice if BUG and its ground creatures continue to rise. Then again, BUG lacks Pyroblast and Murktide Regent flies over Tarmogoyf.
Ratchet Bomb in Thiim's side really says "Fuck Construct tokens".
The prize this week goes Legion's End. You might remember this card if you played Standard back in the summer of 2019. We were exiling zombie tokens and removing lands turned into creatures from the game. (Thanks, Nissa!) If only this hit Archon of Emeria I would be completely sold. Still, it can do a lot of work for two mana.
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