Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.02.19-20
- Eric
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- on Feb 26, 2022
Thirteen deck lists this past weekend. It was a good one for Doomsday, so be prepared to see a bit of extra sideboard hate coming in. That or live by the Storm Player's mantra for Mindbreak Trap: "I don't know what that is, and I'm not playing around it."
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Preliminaries
League
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 (18) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 1 Daze 1 Dig Through Time 2 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 (7) 3 Steel Sabotage 4 Leyline of the Void |
discoverN (4th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Demonic Consultation 2 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Portent | Sideboard (8) 1 Dress Down 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Clone9 (8th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Island 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Portent 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (8) 2 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Null Rod 1 Tormod's Crypt |
Vertyx_ (13th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (8) 1 Duress 1 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
MaxMagicer (29th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (8) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
StormGuyisme (30th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Portent | Sideboard (8) 2 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SingPanMan (3rd Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Pact of Negation 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (8) 2 Energy Flux 2 Hydroblast 1 Island 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN (5th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Demonic Consultation 2 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Portent | Sideboard (8) 1 Dress Down 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Vertyx_ (7th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (8) 1 Duress 1 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
bennybo (15th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Portent | Sideboard (8) 2 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
ScreenwriterNY (24th Place) Differences
| Main (7) 2 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (8) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
StormGuyisme (31st Place) Differences
discoverN (3-1) Differences
Zwoor (5-0) Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Portent | Sideboard (8) 2 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Tutors (24) 12 Demonic Consultation 12 Mystical Tutor Draw (14) 7 Portent 4 Sleight of Hand 3 Treasure Cruise Counters (26) 8 Daze 12 Flusterstorm 5 Mystical Dispute 1 Pact of Negation Creatures (2) 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent Discard (12) 12 Duress Lands (13) 10 Fetch Lands 1 Island 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (1) 1 Tormod's Crypt Artifacts (21) 17 Energy Flux 2 Null Rod 2 Steel Sabotage Discard (4) 4 Duress Creatures (20) 3 Murktide Regent 12 Opposition Agent 5 Tasigur, the Golden Fang Lands (10) 10 Island Counters (12) 2 Hydroblast 10 Mindbreak Trap Removal (33) 19 Fatal Push 14 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Other (3) 3 Dress Down |
Thoughts
An important thing to note when so many repeat players show up is to see how much they altered their lists. Most don't in a short period of time. Both discoverN and Vertyx_ ran the same lists Saturday and Sunday. discoverN's Preliminary list ran Treasure Cruise over Portent. Being on double Duress, Cruise seems like a great choice to use the likely higher number of cards in the graveyard. Perhaps discoverN felt it was still a little too slow, as he was back on Portent for the weekend.
discoverN tends to lead the way with Doomsday lists. We're down to one Daze in several lists and playing Duress in place most of the time. discoverN himself is up to two copies of Duress, Mystical Dispute missing from his lists. With Force of Negation still around, this says the goal is to proactively disrupt the high number of Tinker and Saga decks at the moment, and find the opportunity to combo off.
Although there is a good amount of variety in the sideboards this week, no fundamental changes have been made. It all comes down to taste and what you're expecting.
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