Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.02.26-27
- Eric
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- on Mar 06, 2022
What a week Doomsday had! But can it keep it up or is will players catch on?
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 (9) 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 3 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
MaxMagicer (5th Place) Differences
Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (6) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage |
discoverN (21st Place) Differences
Main (7) 2 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Portent 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (6) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Hydroblast 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent |
revenantkioku (2nd Place) Differences
Main (7) 2 Duress 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (6) 1 Dress Down 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang |
billster47 (5th Place) Differences
Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Thassa's Oracle 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (6) 2 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl's Recall 2 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent |
discoverN (6th Place) Differences
Main (7) 2 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Portent 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (6) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Hydroblast 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Mindbreak Trap |
SingPanMan (19th Place) Differences
Main (7) 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Pact of Negation 1 Portent 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (6) 2 Energy Flux 2 Hydroblast 1 Opposition Agent 1 Tombstalker |
Sahakvic (28th Place) Differences
Main (7) 2 Dauthi Voidwalker 1 Daze 1 Fetch Lands 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Necropotence 1 Opposition Agent | Sideboard (6) 1 Dauthi Voidwalker 2 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage |
namekian (5-0) Differences
Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Fetch Lands 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Necropotence 1 Portent 1 Vampiric Tutor | Sideboard (6) 2 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent |
Total Differences
Tutors (14) 7 Mystical Tutor 7 Vampiric Tutor Draw (13) 7 Necropotence 4 Portent 2 Sleight of Hand Counters (9) 4 Daze 4 Mystical Dispute 1 Pact of Negation Creatures (4) 2 Dauthi Voidwalker 1 Thassa's Oracle 1 Opposition Agent Discard (8) 8 Duress Lands (8) 6 Fetch Lands 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Artifacts (10) 7 Energy Flux 1 Hurkyl's Recall 2 Steel Sabotage Discard (1) 1 Duress Creatures (11) 1 Dauthi Voidwalker 1 Murktide Regent 7 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 Tombstalker Counters (14) 2 Force of Negation 4 Hydroblast 8 Mindbreak Trap Removal (10) 10 Fatal Push Other (2) 1 Dress Down 1 Merchant Scroll |
Thoughts
Duress is catching on in a big way. It makes sense. Daze is only really good turn one on the play right now. If it's not protecting a Doomsday, then it's simply doing nothing or getting pitched to a Force. Being proactive, as well as getting information, makes Duress powerful.
Sahakvic is playing an interesting list here. It looks like it's trying to get an edge against the mirror and graveyard decks with its Opposition Agent and Dauthi Voidwalkers. These come at the cost of the topdeck tutors, which some sort of sense if a Voidwalker ends up casting the opponent's Ancestral Recall or the like.
Sideboards are fairly standard this week. The one confusing thing here is Merchant Scroll in discoverN's side. I have to wonder if this was a test to see if it is worth playing in the main. I can see siding it in for Daze against slower matchups.
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