Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.07.30-31
- Eric
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- on Aug 02, 2022
Three copies of Doomsday made it into the top 8 of the Sunday Challenge, but there's one big surprise this week that brought a lot of grief to some players.
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 (15) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 2 Flusterstorm 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 Sideboard (7) 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
bennybo (13th Place) Differences
| Main (11) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (8) 1 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
revenantkioku (30th Place) Differences
| Main (11) 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Mystic Sanctuary 1 Opposition Agent 1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (8) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent |
discoverN (4th Place) Differences
| Main (11) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Necropotence 2 Portent | Sideboard (8) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 Steel Sabotage |
Diem4x (6th Place) Differences
| Main (11) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Necropotence 2 Portent | Sideboard (8) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SingPanMan (7th Place) Differences
| Main (11) 1 Daze 2 Duress 4 Grief 1 Necropotence 1 Night's Whisper 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (8) 1 Energy Flux 1 Island 4 Phyrexian Obliterator 2 Steel Sabotage |
Carl63 (29th Place) Differences
| Main (11) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Necropotence 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (8) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage |
shir kahn (31st Place) Differences
| Main (11) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Necropotence 2 Portent | Sideboard (8) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Island 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Wyjx (5-0) Differences
| Main (11) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (8) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage 1 Surgical Extraction |
Total Differences
| Draw (19) 7 Necropotence 1 Night's Whisper 9 Portent 1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Sleight of Hand Counters (50) 2 Daze 13 Flusterstorm 7 Force of Negation 28 Force of Will Creatures (1) 1 Opposition Agent Discard (9) 5 Duress 4 Grief Lands (9) 6 Fetch Lands 1 Mystic Sanctuary 2 Watery Grave | Graveyard (1) 1 Surgical Extraction Artifacts (9) 1 Energy Flux 2 Hurkyl's Recall 6 Steel Sabotage Discard (1) 1 Duress Creatures (18) 12 Murktide Regent 2 Opposition Agent 4 Phyrexian Obliterator Lands (7) 7 Island Counters (12) 6 Force of Negation 6 Mindbreak Trap Removal (16) 13 Fatal Push 3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
Main Core: 49 cards Side Core: 7 cards
Quite a bit of difference this week. Blame me, partially, for some bad choices. But SingPanMan went a bold, bold direction. I'm going to focus on those differences this week, but it should be noted that discoverN played mainly the same list this week, only going down to one copy of The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale and three copies of Steel Sabotage. The other lists are within the standard differences we see weekly.
Drop Force of Will for Grief? That is the plan SingPanMan went with this week, and a 7th place showing is nothing to sneeze at. Since his deck lacks Forces, Duress and even Night's Whisper are added to serve as extra fuel for Grief as well as being solid plays.
Here's where things get wilder with SingPanMan's list. Four copies of Phyrexian Obliterator in the side. Dark Ritual is a hell of a drug. But let's be fair: It also pitches to Grief. And so does Leyline of the Void, which makes the card much less dead in multiples in matchups. Where this BBBBig boy likely shines, however, is versus Shops. There is not much Shops can do once an Obliterator resolves. There may be some difficulty getting to that point, but I am very curious to see how it plays.
I already went 3-1 in a Preliminary with the list and I'll record a league as soon as I am able. Whether or not we continue to see this twists, I'm glad someone is pushing Doomsday as much as SingPanMan is.
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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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