Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.04.02-03
- Eric
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- on Apr 06, 2022
The last Showcase Challenge of the season means more Preliminaries fire as people attempt to get their QPs. Not a single Doomsday list in any of the preliminaries, but we've got five list to look at with some interesting sideboard choices.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
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 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 2 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 (9) 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 3 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
01 discoverN (26th Place) Differences
| Main (6) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Portent | Sideboard (6) 1 Energy Flux 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Snuff Out |
02 discoverN (1st Place) Differences
| Main (6) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Portent | Sideboard (6) 1 Energy Flux 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Snuff Out |
03 Diem4x (18th Place) Differences
| Main (6) 2 Daze 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 1 Flusterstorm 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (6) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage |
04 SingPanMan (20th Place) Differences
| Main (6) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Flusterstorm 1 Pact of Negation 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (6) 1 Energy Flux 2 Hydroblast 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage |
05 XShockWaveX (5-0) Differences
| Main (6) 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Daze 1 Fetch Lands 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Peek | Sideboard (6) 1 Duress 1 Flusterstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Tutors (2) 2 Merchant Scroll Draw (5) 1 Peek 3 Portent 1 Sleight of Hand Counters (13) 5 Daze 4 Flusterstorm 2 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Pact of Negation Discard (4) 4 Duress Removal (1) 1 Chain of Vapor Lands (5) 4 Fetch Lands 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Artifacts (7) 3 Energy Flux 1 Hurkyl's Recall 3 Steel Sabotage Discard (2) 2 Duress Creatures (5) 3 Murktide Regent 2 Opposition Agent Counters (7) 1 Flusterstorm 2 Hydroblast 4 Mindbreak Trap Removal (9) 2 Engineered Explosives 4 Fatal Push 2 Snuff Out 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
Main Core: 54 cards Side Core: 9 cards
Duress in the main has dropped down to one. discoverN continues to be the one playing Merchant Scroll. It seems to be taking the place of a counterspell. Nothing unique has popped up in the Counter or Draw suite as of late.
At first glance sideboards seem fairly standard this week. However discoverN is playing both Engineered Explosives and Snuff Out. EE is a nice catch all, especially since Doomsday puts few non-land permanents on the battlefield. Snuff Out's "free" mode is a good chunk of life, but a simple way of dealing with problematic creatures is rarely a bad thing.
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