Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.10.15-16

What a Gaea's Blessing it is to have five lists to look at.

Saturday Challenge

Sunday Challenge

Preliminaries

League

Core and Differences

Core

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

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

Instants (20)
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
1 Mystical Tutor
Lands (14)
9 Fetch Lands
1 Island
4 Underground Sea

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

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence

Sideboard (7)
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Enrichetta (6th Place) Differences

Main (3)
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Thought Scour
Sideboard (8)
1 Energy Flux
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Steel Sabotage

s063 (16th Place) Differences

Main (3)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Portent
Sideboard (8)
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Murktide Regent
1 Tundra

MaxMagicer (23rd Place) Differences

Main (3)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (8)
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent

s063 (27th Place) Differences

Main (3)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Portent
Sideboard (8)
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Murktide Regent
1 Tundra

hardi (5-0) Differences

Main (3)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (8)
1 Dress Down
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Steel Sabotage

Total Differences

Draw (5)
2 Portent
2 Sleight of Hand
1 Thought Scour

Counters (6)
1 Daze
4 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation

Discard (4)
4 Duress
Artifacts (3)
1 Energy Flux
2 Steel Sabotage

Discard (1)
1 Duress

Creatures (12)
2 Monastery Mentor
5 Murktide Regent
2 Opposition Agent
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (5)
3 Island
2 Tundra

Counters (8)
4 Force of Negation
4 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (8)
1 Dress Down
7 Fatal Push

Other (3)
3 Gaea's Blessing

Thoughts

Main Core: 57 cards Side Core: 7 cards


I like how Enrichetta cut down on Flusterstorm for an extra Force of Negation. I'm not too sure how I feel about going up on Daze, as the timing for it against Tinker decks is not easy to capitalize on. Thought Scour sure is interesting. It can do some work post Doomsday and interact with topdeck tutors, but I'm not sure I see it. Lots of Duress, which makes sense. Snag an important piece, get information. Powerful stuff.


After facing Grixis Tinker variants four times this weekend, I wish I had Gaea's Blessing in my side. But I also do not know how much it would help since Construct tokens is how I died most of the time. Energy Flux can buy some time, and maybe it's a good call? I've been having mild success with Null Rod, but it does not stop Constructs. It's like we need some combination of Null Rod and Energy Flux to make these matchups better.

Doomsday's in a rough spot in this meta, but I have a feeling we have the pieces to do something but haven't quite put them together yet. I have some things I want to try, but it might be a good while until Doomsday is winning challenges again.

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