Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.11.20

There is quite a bit of interesting testing going on this week. What will stick, though?

Saturday Challenge

ENRICHETTA 13TH PLACE

MONSIEUR_VERDOUX (14TH PLACE)

DISCOVERN (26TH PLACE)

Sunday Challenge

ENRICHETTA (8TH PLACE)

SINGPANMAN (24TH PLACE)

REVENANTKIOKU (27TH PLACE)

League

CLONE9 (5-0)

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 (18)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
3 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Mental Misstep
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 (6)
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Steel Sabotage

Enrichetta (13th Place) Differences

Main (8)
2 Daze
1 Fetch Lands
2 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Thought Scour
Sideboard (9)
1 Energy Flux
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Island
1 Opposition Agent
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Monsieur_Verdoux (14th Place) Differences

Main (8)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Lands
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (9)
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

discoverN (26th Place) Differences

Main (8)
4 Duress
1 Fetch Lands
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
Sideboard (9)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Enrichetta (8th Place) Differences

Main (8)
2 Daze
1 Fetch Lands
2 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Thought Scour
Sideboard (9)
1 Energy Flux
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Island
1 Opposition Agent
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

SingPanMan (24th Place) Differences

Main (8)
2 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Murktide Regent
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Necropotence
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (9)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
3 Starscream, Power Hungry
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

revenantkioku (27th Place) Differences

Main (8)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Opposition Agent
1 Portent
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (9)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Clone9 (5-0) Differences

Main (8)
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Portent
1 Tundra
Sideboard (9)
2 Fatal Push
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Opposition Agent
2 Serenity
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Tundra

Total Differences

Tutors (7)
1 Merchant Scroll
6 Mystical Tutor

Draw (12)
1 Mishra's Bauble
6 Necropotence
2 Portent
1 Sleight of Hand
2 Thought Scour

Counters (21)
9 Daze
2 Flusterstorm
8 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mystical Dispute

Creatures (2)
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent

Discard (7)
6 Duress
1 Inquisition of Kozilek

L⁣ands (7)
4 Fetch Lands
1 Tundra
2 Watery Grave
Graveyard (1)
1 Surgical Extraction

Artifacts (5)
2 Energy Flux
3 Steel Sabotage

Creatures (23)
1 Monastery Mentor
2 Murktide Regent
6 Opposition Agent
11 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
3 Starscream, Power Hungry

Lands (5)
4 Island
1 Tundra

Counters (7)
4 Force of Negation
3 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (18)
6 Cut Down
3 Fatal Push
2 Serenity
1 Snuff Out
6 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Other (4)
4 Gaea's Blessing

Thoughts

Main Core: 52 cards Side Core: 6 cards

Although it did not seem to pay off with a Top 8 showing, discoverN going all in on Duress sure is interesting. Daze, while offering excellent turn one backup, quickly loses its utility. Cutting it and Force of Negation for a more proactive approach might not have worked out this time, but there might be days where this is the right choice. Mishra's Bauble I am really curious about. I can only imagine it was a fun-of, something that wanted to be tested. It is a kind-of free version of Portent. Maybe? Not exactly but I would be surprised to see it again.


Cut Down is slowly outpacing Fatal Push. Feels good to be right. Sheoldred, the Apocalypse is going up in numbers, but SingPanMan came in with the spice of Starscream, Power Hungry. I lost to this, partially because of a misplay, but mostly because of misunderstanding how quickly the damage would add up. I can see Starscream being a beating in the mirror, and getting it out with Dark Ritual turn one is likely to cause some issues for some decks. How many, I'm not entirely sure. I wish I had more time to test before Eternal Weekend because while it might not be a great card, it sure is an interesting card.

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