Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.07.02-03

Lower numbers this week, but good turnover for those playing the deck. As always, you have to love my ""ability"" to call the meta, as I said to pack those Opposition Agents to counteract all those Doomsday players. Of which there were so few.
Whoops.

Saturday Challenge

Sunday Challenge


discoverN (4th Place)

Creatures (6)
4 Street Wraith
2 Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (14)
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Doomsday
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
2 Portent
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk

Instants (22)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
4 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor

Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence
Lands (14)
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-Covered Island
4 Underground Sea

Sideboard (15)
1 Force of Negation
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
3 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

SingPanMan (1st Place)

Creatures (6)
4 Street Wraith
2 Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (13)
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Doomsday
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
1 Portent
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk

Instants (23)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
2 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor

Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence
Lands (14)
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-Covered Island
4 Underground Sea
1 Watery Grave

Sideboard (15)
1 Energy Flux
2 Hydroblast
1 Island
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Murktide Regent
2 Sedgemoor Witch
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat (26th Place)

Creatures (6)
4 Street Wraith
2 Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (14)
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Doomsday
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
2 Portent
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk

Instants (22)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
4 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor

Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence
Lands (14)
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-Covered Island
4 Underground Sea

Sideboard (15)
1 Force of Negation
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Murktide Regent
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Tundra

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 (20)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
3 Flusterstorm
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 (8)
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Murktide Regent
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

reiderrabbit (8th Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
2 Duress
1 Lotus Petal
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (7)
1 Dismember
1 Fatal Push
1 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Island

SingPanMan (1st Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Portent
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (7)
1 Energy Flux
2 Hydroblast
1 Island
2 Sedgemoor Witch
1 Steel Sabotage

discoverN (4th Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
2 Portent
Sideboard (7)
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat (26th Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
2 Portent
Sideboard (7)
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Tundra

discoverN (5-0) Differences

Main (5)
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
2 Portent
Sideboard (7)
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Draw (7)
7 Portent

Counters (10)
2 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Dispute

Discard (2)
2 Duress

L⁣ands/Mana (6)
3 Fetch Lands
1 Lotus Petal
2 Watery Grave
Graveyard (1)
1 Grafdigger's Cage

Artifacts (8)
1 Energy Flux
3 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Steel Sabotage

Discard (3)
3 Duress

Creatures (5)
1 Monastery Mentor
2 Murktide Regent
2 Sedgemoor Witch

Lands (3)
2 Island
1 Tundra

Counters (8)
3 Force of Negation
2 Hydroblast
3 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (7)
1 Dismember
4 Fatal Push
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

Main Core: 55 cards Side Core: 8 cards


The mains are fairly standard this week, only reiderrabbit being on a bit of a throwback to the double Duress and Daze plan, opting to play slightly less draw than others.

It looks like discoverN is off of the Monastery Mentor package for now. Time and place and all that. SingPanMan continues to dance to to the beat of his own drum, opting to play two copies of Sedgemoor Witch and Hydroblast. I've been playing one copy of the Witch, and been loving it. Although, learn from my mistakes and don't get too hasty attacking with it. We're a combo deck. Losing the Witch to a flashed in Endurance hurt. (Yes, I know it has Menace. They had another creature.) Doomsday is a Vintage deck that wins with creatures, but be careful. The Witch is there to keep you alive and win if the chance arises.
With all the Hogaak and Tinker reiderrabbit playing Grafdigger's Cage is quite a good call. Sadly we lack Urza's Saga to help search it out, but as far as multi-purpose cards go, Grafdigger's does a lot of work. Dismember, however, I'm not sure how I feel about. That's a lot of life to spend sometimes when Fatal Push takes care of the bulk we want to get rid of.


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