Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.12.25

Merry Xmas! ... A week late. Oh well. Although there was a problem with the lists, I'm glad that no one had to take time off their vacation to fix this problem. Good on Daybreak and Wizards for respecting their employees.

Anyway. Doomsdata!

Saturday Challenge

sixmp (5th Place)

Vertyx_ (7th Place)

Sunday Challenge

Vertyx_ (1st Place)

sixmp (5th Place)

discoverN (6th Place)

SingPanMan (27th Place)

Preliminaries

sixmp (3-1)

League

Gathienne (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 (20)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
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
1 Vampiric Tutor
Lands (13)
8 Fetch Lands
1 Island
4 Underground Sea

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

Enchantments (1)
1 Necropotence

Sideboard (8)
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Opposition Agent
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

sixmp (5th Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
1 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Murktide Regent

Vertyx_ (7th Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
1 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent

Vertyx_ (1st Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
1 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

sixmp (5th Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
1 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Murktide Regent

discoverN (6th Place) Differences

Main (5)
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
2 Mishra's Bauble
1 Snuff Out
Sideboard (7)
3 Cut Down
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Snuff Out

SingPanMan (27th Place) Differences

Main (5)
2 Daze
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (7)
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Energy Flux
1 Opposition Agent
1 Shelldock Isle
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Suspend

sixmp (3-1) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
1 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Murktide Regent

Gathienne (5-0) Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Mystical Dispute
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
2 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
1 Steel Sabotage

Total Differences

Draw (9)
3 Mishra's Bauble
6 Sleight of Hand

Counters (16)
8 Daze
6 Flusterstorm
2 Mystical Dispute

Discard (6)
6 Duress

Removal (1)
1 Snuff Out

L⁣ands (8)
7 Fetch Lands
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (56)
10 Cut Down
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Energy Flux
5 Fatal Push
6 Force of Negation
5 Gaea's Blessing
3 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Mindbreak Trap
12 Murktide Regent
2 Opposition Agent
1 Shelldock Isle
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage
2 Suspend

Thoughts

Main Core: 55 cards Side Core: 8 cards

discoverN is up to two Mishra's Bauble and even tried a main Snuff Out. Daze is gone. Other than that, everything is fairly normal.


The sides are interesting. While Gaea's Blessing caught on, SingPanMan went a different route with Emrakul, The Aeons Torn. It does the same thing, but at the cost of playing Shelldock Isle to have the option of it being another win condition.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse has mostly drifted off for Murktide Regent. White Initiative is playing Karakas, albeit a single copy.

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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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