Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.11.20
- Eric
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- on Nov 22, 2022
There is quite a bit of interesting testing going on this week. What will stick, though?
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 (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
Monsieur_Verdoux (14th Place) Differences
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
SingPanMan (24th Place) Differences
revenantkioku (27th Place) Differences
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 Lands (7) 4 Fetch Lands 1 Tundra 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) 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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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
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