Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.02.06-07

• Eric
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• on Feb 08, 2022

Tinker, Aggro Shops, Hogaak and 4C DRS were the most played decks this weekend.
As long as Tinker remains the top deck, Doomsday is going to have to look towards speed and disruption while trying to respect the remaining decks in the format.

Saturday Challenge

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MaxMagicer (2nd Place)

Vertyx_ (15th Place)

duke12 (31st Place)

Qualifier

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Bullwinkkle6705 (21st Place)

Preliminaries

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ConnorM426 (3-1)

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League

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Vertyx_ (5-0)

Core and Differences

Core

MaxMagicer (2nd Place) Differences

Vertyx_ (15th Place) Differences

duke12 (31st Place) Differences

Bullwinkkle6705 (21st Place) Differences

ConnorM426 (3-1) Differences

Vertyx_ (5-0) Differences

Total Differences

Thoughts

The main differences are really slim this week, and the sides are almost identical as well.

Merchant Scroll showing up again tells me that players are wanting to find Force of Will to resolve Doomsday or trying to get more card advantage with Ancestral Recall. While our targets are slim, taking a turn to find what we need might be helpful. Then again, we see this in a Preliminary and 31st place list. My money is on a cantrip being a better use of the slot.
Main discard also seems like a solid choice if we are dealing with a high number of blue decks, plus it can always take a sphere-effect from Shops. Assuming we get to make a turn one play.

Legacy players have been trying a more tempo build of Doomsday that plays Murktide Regent in the main. It’s become a common one-of in Vintage sides, but Bullwinkkle6705 decided to put in a play-set to juke matchups. Against non-Pyroblast decks, it is a fearsome clock, but I worry there are too many Pyroblasts out there to make it effective enough.
I’m feeling it may be time to go back to two copies of Opposition Agent to make sure we are putting out threats at every possible moment to tax these Tinker decks.

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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
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