Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.10.29-30

What a steep drop off this week.
I'm unsure if the two League lists are actually from this week or not. The Magic Online transition has made some of the deck posting stuff strange, and another set of lists labeled with last week's date was found. Oh well. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but these decks are supposedly both 5-0s. Challenge wise? One list. I found a list from a small Hareruya paper tournament. It is unique.

Saturday Challenge

TohokuKing of Vintage

League

OKMV (5-0)

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 (24)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Consider
4 Dark Ritual
2 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
3 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
Lands (14)
2 Flooded Strand
1 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Underground Sea

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

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence

Sideboard (15)
1 Energy Flux
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Island
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

SAWATARIX (5-0)

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 (23)
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 Dispute
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
Lands (14)
3 Flooded Strand
1 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Underground Sea

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

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence

Sideboard (15)
2 Cut Down
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snow-Covered Island
4 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Thoughtseize

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 Black Lotus
4 Dark Ritual
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
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 Brainstorm
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire

Sideboard (4)
1 Island
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

MaxMagicer (28th Place) Differences

Main (6)
1 Dig Through Time
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Necropotence
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (11)
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent

OKMV (5-0) Differences

Main (6)
1 Consider
1 Daze
1 Dig Through Time
1 Fetch Land
1 Force of Negation
1 Necropotence
Sideboard (11)
1 Energy Flux
1 Gaea's Blessing
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Steel Sabotage

SAWATARIX (5-0) Differences

Main (6)
1 Dig Through Time
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Necropotence
Sideboard (11)
2 Cut Down
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Thoughtseize

Itou Hiroki (1st) Differences

Main (6)
1 Flusterstorm
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Pact of Negation
1 Portent
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
2 Dismember
2 Hydroblast
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
3 Sailors' Bane
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Surgical Extraction

Total Differences

Draw (9)
1 Consider
3 Dig Through Time
3 Necropotence
1 Portent
1 Sleight of Hand

Counters (7)
1 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Pact of Negation

Discard (4)
2 Duress
2 Inquisition of Kozilek

L⁣ands (4)
3 Fetch Lands
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (44)
2 Cut Down
2 Dismember
1 Energy Flux
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
2 Hydroblast
12 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
4 Murktide Regent
3 Opposition Agent
3 Sailors' Bane
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
4 Steel Sabotage
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Thoughtseize

Thoughts

Main Core: 54 cards Side Core: 4 cards


Nothing too wild in the main this week, except for Itou playing Inquisition of Kozilek as their Discard of choice, and Pact of Negation as well. Considering what was taken out (Dig Through Time and Necropotence), I assume it was a meta call as it was a paper event.


Which gets to the sideboards where we see some wild stuff. To be fair, Sailors' Bane is not on Magic Online. So we can't see how good it is. What is interesting is that post Doomsday, or even Dig Through Time, the Dragon Turtle gets discounted. How good is that? Not sure, but it is interesting. A 7/7 is big. Hydroblast I get as a meta call, but I do not get Dismember. Yeah, we have Black mana available in Doomsday, but that still is a potential loss of life that I would consider too much. Everything else is fairly table stakes.

But why the huge drop off in the challenge? Well, only four people chose to play it. Then three of us did not do well. I did particularly awful, losing all six matches in the challenge. But I was not playing well and over-sideboarded a lot. Be careful. Get in your reps. Relax. And have fun. It's only Doomsday, after all.

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