Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.01.08

As White Initiative continues to climb in numbers, Doomsday takes a little bit of a dip.

Sunday Challenge

Vertyx_ 23rd Place

discoverN 31st Place

Preliminaries

Vertyx_ 3-1

League

desolutionist 5-0

Emperor of Vintage Tournament 7th Season

Kanbara Hokuto - 6th Place

Itoh Hiroki - 7th Place

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 (16)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
Lands (12)
8 Fetch Lands
4 Underground Sea

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

Sideboard (4)
4 Leyline of the Void

Vertyx_ (23rd Place) Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Gush
1 Island
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
1 Sleight of Hand
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (11)
2 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

discoverN (31st Place) Differences

Main (19)
1 Fetch Land
2 Flusterstorm
1 Gush
1 Island
4 Mishra's Bauble
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (11)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
3 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Vertyx_ (3-1) Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Gush
1 Island
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
1 Sleight of Hand
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (11)
2 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

desolutionist (5-0) Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Gush
1 Island
1 Lotus Petal
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
1 Sleight of Hand
4 Street Wraith
1 Swamp
Sideboard (11)
1 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
2 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Kanbara Hokuto (6th Place) Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
3 Duress
2 Fetch Lands
1 Imperial Seal
1 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Necropotence
4 Sleight of Hand
1 Temporal Mastery
3 Thoughtseize
2 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Duress
4 Force of Negation
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Thoughtseize
1 Wasteland

Itoh Hiroki (7th Place) Differences

Main (19)
1 Fatal Push
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Gush
1 Island
1 Opposition Agent
1 Pact of Negation
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
1 Fatal Push
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
1 Sailors' Bane
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Suspend
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Tutors (1)
1 Imperial Seal

Draw (57)
4 Mishra's Bauble
5 Necropotence
20 Preordain
7 Sleight of Hand
20 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise

Counters (28)
4 Daze
14 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Negation
5 Gush
1 Pact of Negation

Creatures (1)
1 Opposition Agent

Discard (9)
5 Duress
4 Thoughtseize

Removal (1)
1 Fatal Push

L⁣ands/Mana (16)
5 Fetch Lands
5 Island
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Swamp
3 Watery Grave

Other (1)
1 Temporal Mastery
Sideboard (0)

Artifacts (12)
2 Hurkyl's Recall
10 Steel Sabotage

Discard (2)
1 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

Creatures (6)
2 Murktide Regent
1 Sailors' Bane
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (5)
1 Cavern of Souls
2 Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland

Counters (12)
8 Force of Negation
4 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (29)
7 Cut Down
4 Fatal Push
7 Snuff Out
2 Suspend
9 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

Main Core: 41 cards Side Core: 4 cards


The main lists are similar to last weeks. Except for Kanbara, who loves Discard and Imperial Seal. No one else has really tried discoverN's Mishra's Bauble plan to success yet. I did have some success in MO but not so much at the Emperor of Vintage tournament.


discoverN is up to three copies of Snuff Out now. Most players seem to be going for as many pieces of removal as both Shops and Bazaar hate. I'm still not convinced the best plan for Initiative has been found yet.
I do have a question that I think I need to dwell on this week. Does Leyline of the Void still deserve a spot in the sideboard right now? That's a lot of slots for a card that is only quite solid against Dredge, the least popular of the Bazaar variants at the moment.

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