Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for Eternal Weekend Asia 2022

We had 103 Vintage players for Eternal Weekend Asia, and seven chose to play Doomsday. There were some unique choices.

Decklists

Takumi Sugiyama (10th)

Hiroki Ito (12th)

Hokuto Kanbara (14th)

tensaku (29th)

Alejandro Younger (46th)

SingPanMan (78th)

Eric Koziol (81st)

Core and Differences

Core

Creatures (2)
2 Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (8)
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Doomsday
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk

Instants (15)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
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 (4)
4 Leyline of the Void

Takumi Sugiyama EWA-10th Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
2 Duress
4 Flusterstorm
1 Gush
1 Murktide Regent
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
2 Opposition Agent
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Hiroki Ito (12th) Differences

Main (19)
4 Flusterstorm
1 Gush
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Opposition Agent
1 Pact of Negation
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
2 Dismember
2 Hydroblast
1 Island
2 Sailors' Bane
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Hokuto Kanbara (14th) Differences

Main (19)
3 Duress
1 Fetch Lands
1 Force of Negation
1 Imperial Seal
1 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
4 Sleight of Hand
1 Temporal Mastery
3 Thoughtseize
2 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
1 Duress
2 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
3 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Strip Mine
1 Thoughtseize
1 Wasteland

tensaku (29th) Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
1 Gush
1 Murktide Regent
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Necropotence
1 Portent
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
1 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Hydroblast
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
2 Opposition Agent
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Alejandro Younger (46th) Differences

Main (19)
2 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Lands
4 Flusterstorm
1 Gush
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (11)
2 Energy Flux
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Opposition Agent
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

SingPanMan (78th) Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
1 Gush
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Murktide Regent
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
2 Fatal Push
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
3 Opposition Agent
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Eric Koziol (81st) Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
1 Duress
4 Flusterstorm
1 Gush
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Opposition Agent
4 Preordain
1 Sleight of Hand
4 Street Wraith
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Tutors (5)
1 Imperial Seal
4 Mystical Tutor

Draw (65)
6 Gush
5 Necropotence
1 Portent
24 Preordain
5 Sleight of Hand
24 Street Wraith

Counters (32)
6 Daze
22 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
2 Mystical Dispute
1 Pact of Negation

Creatures (5)
3 Murktide Regent
2 Opposition Agent

Discard (15)
7 Duress
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
5 Thoughtseize

L⁣ands (10)
2 Fetch Lands
1 Mystic Sanctuary
7 Watery Grave

Other (1)
1 Temporal Mastery
Artifacts (21)
2 Energy Flux
3 Hurkyl's Recall
16 Steel Sabotage

Discard (2)
1 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

Creatures (18)
1 Laboratory Maniac
3 Murktide Regent
10 Opposition Agent
2 Sailors' Bane
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (7)
5 Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland

Counters (11)
6 Force of Negation
3 Hydroblast
2 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (17)
3 Cut Down
2 Dismember
6 Fatal Push
6 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Other (1)
1 Gaea's Blessing

Thoughts

Main Core: 41 cards Side Core: 4 cards


Japan sure likes Watery Grave.
One interesting trend is three players cutting Mystical Tutor. The logic, as far as I can see, is that it doesn't find everything and not fast enough, so it can be a bit weak. I see some comments that excluding it was a mistake, as losing it slows the deck down. From my sleuthing the idea was to drop it for a main copy of Murktide Regent in order to have a maindeck way of dealing with those unfortunate situations where Doomsday isn't going to be the way to victory.
Hokuto Kanbara's list is a wild ride. It goes much lower on Cantrips and more in on Discard. I can't say I understand why Gush gets the cut, especially if you're playing a main Mystic Sanctuary. I don't entirely hate the Temporal Mastery, as this can help get around some of the anti-draw effects by acting like a second Time Walk. I do worry about the Blue count for Force of Will in this list, however.

We can all agree on Leyline of the Void.
We cannot agree on what kind of creatures to run in the side. Opposition Agent was pretty popular, but most everyone tried a little bit of something.
Hokuto, again, bucked the trend by putting in a copy of Laboratory Maniac. While being another win con, this also kind of answers Archive Trap. Sure, it has to be in play and they have to have no removal. But still. Without Street Wraith, however, it seems harder to pull off.
I'm a bit surprised by the low Mindbreak Trap numbers, and that I was the only one who chose to play Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Granted, you can't pitch her to Force of Will.
Strip Mine and Wasteland sure do answer Urza's Saga. They seem a bit clunky for the spells we want to cast, but I assume they are replacing dead cards in those matches, and I'm absolutely down to test that out.


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