Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.03.26-27
- Eric
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- on Mar 30, 2022
Not many lists, but an interesting take on Doomsday this week is worth going into on its own. First, the traditional Doomsday lists.
Saturday Challenge
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Core and Differences
Core
| Creatures (6) 4 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (13) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Duress 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Time Walk Instants (20) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 3 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep 1 Mystical Tutor 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 (10) 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 4 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
ConnorM426 (11th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 2 Daze 1 Fetch Land 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (5) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent |
discoverN (29th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Portent | Sideboard (5) 1 Duress 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Hope of Ghirapur 1 Mindbreak Trap |
SingPanMan (16th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Daze 1 Pact of Negation 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (5) 1 Energy Flux 2 Hydroblast 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent |
Vertyx_ (28th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Portent | Sideboard (5) 1 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent |
discoverN (30th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Portent | Sideboard (5) 1 Duress 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Hope of Ghirapur 1 Mindbreak Trap |
fluffy21 (5-0) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Portent | Sideboard (5) 1 Energy Flux 1 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Hydroblast 1 Mindbreak Trap |
Total Differences
| Tutors (3) 3 Merchant Scroll Draw (6) 5 Portent 1 Sleight of Hand Counters (7) 4 Daze 2 Force of Negation 1 Pact of Negation Discard (2) 2 Duress Lands (6) 5 Fetch Lands 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Artifacts (5) 5 Energy Flux Discard (3) 3 Duress Creatures (6) 2 Hope of Ghirapur 1 Murktide Regent 3 Opposition Agent Counters (9) 1 Force of Negation 3 Hydroblast 5 Mindbreak Trap Removal (7) 7 Fatal Push |
Thoughts
Main Core: 56 cards Side Core: 10 cards
Everyone played at least one Duress this weekend, and some chose to back that up with copies of Daze. Merchant Scroll hasn't gained much traction outside of discoverN's lists and those who choose to copy them.
Hope of Ghirapur found its way into discoverN's sideboards. This little Legendary can lock the opponent out long enough to gain an advantage or simply win. Other than that, tweaks seem to have been made to adjust to the meta. However, the decline in Doomsday's performance seems to suggest others are doing the same and on a larger scale.
It's worth noting that brianpk80 got second place with an Oracle based deck that plays Doomsday, but it's such a distinct deck that I'm going to go into it by itself after playing it a few leagues.
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