Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.01.15-16

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Saturday Challenge

Sunday Challenge

League

Core and Differences

Core

Creatures (6)
4 Street Wraith
2 Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (13)
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Doomsday
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
1 Portent
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk

Instants (20)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
2 Daze
1 Dig Through Time
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Mental Misstep
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 (11)
1 Energy Flux
2 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Clone9 (9th Place) Differences

Main (4)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
1 Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (4)
1 Energy Flux
1 Fatal Push
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Null Rod

revenantkioku (27th Place) Differences

Main (4)
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (4)
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Vertyx_ (5-0) Differences

Main (4)
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Fetch Land
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Mystical Tutor
Sideboard (4)
1 Island
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent

Total Differences

Creatures (1)
1 Murktide Regent

Draw/Search (5)
2 Demonic Consultation
2 Mystical Tutor
1 Treasure Cruise

Counters (2)
2 Mystical Dispute

Removal (1)
1 Chain of Vapor

L⁣⁣ands (3)
1 Fetch Land
1 Island
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (12)
1 Energy Flux
1 Fatal Push
2 Island
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Null Rod
2 Opposition Agent
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Thoughts

Cutting Demonic Consultation and doing well might seem important. I'm still not sold. Cut Necropotence. Please! While Murktide Regent is a nice clock, I wish we had some utility creatures that could serve for the blocking we need and further the Doomsday gameplan. So far, nothing really exists. Maindeck Chain of Vapor seems like a solid choice considering the meta right now. Bouncing a sphere or a Hollow One might just buy the right opportunity to close the game.


Sideboards are also getting fairly homogenized. While I look through various sets to see if there are any weird cards that might play a role, it seems like we Doomsday players need to focus on playing well and resolving Doomsday fast. Getting too cute might ruin our days. We don't usually win through damage.

Always Be Casting Doomsday

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