Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.01.15
- Eric
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- on Jan 18, 2023
Ah, we got some good stuff going on this week. Congrats to Enrichetta for taking down the Showcase Challenge!
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 2 Flusterstorm 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 (1) 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Enrichetta - 1st Place Differences
| Main (7) 2 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 2 Force of Negation 1 Thought Scour 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (14) 1 Energy Flux 2 Fatal Push 1 Gaea's Blessing 1 Island 1 Opposition Agent 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 3 Steel Sabotage 2 Surgical Extraction 1 Virtue's Ruin |
discoverN - 13th Place Differences
| Main (7) 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (14) 1 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Mindbreak Trap 3 Snuff Out 3 Subtlety |
sixmp - 6th Place Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (14) 1 Cut Down 1 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Hurkyl's Recall 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 2 Steel Sabotage |
discoverN - 11th Place Differences
| Main (7) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 4 Mishra's Bauble | Sideboard (14) 1 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Mindbreak Trap 3 Snuff Out 3 Subtlety |
_INF_ - 17th Place Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (14) 2 Cut Down 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 2 Snuff Out 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
taniguchi - 5-0 Differences
| Main (7) 1 Daze 1 Disrupt 1 Duress 2 Fetch Lands 1 Murktide Regent 1 Narset, Parter of Veils | Sideboard (14) 1 Cut Down 3 Duress 1 Hurkyl's Recall 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Steel Sabotage 2 Suspend 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Draw (12) 8 Mishra's Bauble 2 Sleight of Hand 1 Thought Scour 1 Treasure Cruise Counters (18) 5 Daze 1 Disrupt 8 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Negation Creatures (1) 1 Murktide Regent Discard (3) 3 Duress Lands (7) 6 Fetch Lands 1 Watery Grave Other (1) 1 Narset, Parter of Veils | Graveyard (22) 20 Leyline of the Void 2 Surgical Extraction Artifacts (11) 1 Energy Flux 2 Hurkyl's Recall 8 Steel Sabotage Discard (3) 3 Duress Creatures (8) 3 Murktide Regent 3 Opposition Agent 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Lands (1) 1 Island Counters (9) 3 Force of Negation 6 Mindbreak Trap Removal (29) 6 Cut Down 4 Fatal Push 8 Snuff Out 6 Subtlety 2 Suspend 1 Virtue's Ruin 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Other (1) 1 Gaea's Blessing |
Thoughts
Main Core: 53 cards Side Core: 1 cards
Taniguchi has an interesting list this week. Who doen't like Disrupt? I'm not sure when Narset, Parter of Veils is great for Doomsday. Granted we do have plenty of things to look for. But sorcery speed 3 mana is a lot. And we'd like to be casting Doomsday most of the time. There's a reason we play Necropotence.
Enrichetta dropped Leyline of the Void, which seems right in this meta. discoverN is on zero pieces of specific artifact hate, which Force of Negation along with Force of Will does most of the necessary work. So leaning into cards like Subtlety and Snuff Out that answer the big format problems for zero mana. As more decks change to beat Initiative, we have to make sure not to build ourselves into a corner that is incapable of dealing with those decks.
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