Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.02.19
- Eric
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- on Feb 21, 2023
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Preliminaries
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 (19) 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 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 (5) 3 Leyline of the Void 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SenpaiBlank - 15th Place Differences
Vertyx_ - 20th Place Differences
discoverN - 26th Place Differences
Main (6) 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 4 Mishra's Bauble | Sideboard (10) 2 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Steel Sabotage 2 Subtlety 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN - 3rd Place Differences
Main (6) 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 4 Mishra's Bauble | Sideboard (10) 2 Cut Down 1 Duress 1 Force of Negation 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Steel Sabotage 2 Subtlety |
SingPanMan - 5th Place Differences
Main (6) 1 Flusterstorm 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn 1 Energy Flux 1 Force of Negation 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Shelldock Isle 2 Subtlety 2 Suspend |
duke12 - 15th Place Differences
Main (6) 1 Daze 2 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Sleight of Hand | Sideboard (10) 1 Cut Down 1 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Gaea's Blessing 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Opposition Agent 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Steel Sabotage |
SenpaiBlank - 19th Place Differences
ecobaronen - 22nd Place Differences
Main (6) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Flusterstorm 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 2 Mindbreak Trap 1 Mystical Dispute 2 Snuff Out 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Vertyx_ - 3-1 Differences
Total Differences
Draw (19) 12 Mishra's Bauble 6 Sleight of Hand 1 Treasure Cruise Counters (19) 6 Daze 8 Flusterstorm 5 Force of Negation Discard (7) 7 Duress Lands (9) 7 Fetch Lands 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (8) 8 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (9) 1 Energy Flux 8 Steel Sabotage Discard (2) 2 Duress Creatures (10) 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn 2 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Lands (1) 1 Shelldock Isle Counters (19) 8 Force of Negation 1 Hurkyl's Recall 9 Mindbreak Trap 1 Mystical Dispute Removal (40) 10 Cut Down 8 Fatal Push 8 Snuff Out 6 Subtlety 2 Suspend 6 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Other (1) 1 Gaea's Blessing |
Thoughts
Main Core: 54 cards Side Core: 5 cards
There seem to be two paths for the mains now.
One is the Mishra's Bauble route. I am a fan of this as information is power. Plus drawing cards when you have to pass the turn is amazing. There are so many neat plays to be done when you Doomsday and have a draw coming during your opponent's upkeep. Other than that, people tend to be on the 3 Counterspells and a Draw spell plan. Sleight is still extremely popular, although I'm starting to wonder if Cling to Dust shouldn't get a little play to help with the problems Control Bazaar have been causing for the deck.
Compared to last week's lists, the only difference is someone playing a Mystical Dispute and no one playing an Island. Players with two copies of Tabernacle are up. Opposition Agent and Murktide Regent are down while Sheoldred is slightly up. Creatures overall are down, however. The big jumps are in Counters and Removal.
I'm curious how ecobaronen felt about three Leyline of the Void. I've been back on them myself since, well, if it ain't broke don't fix it, right? Still, I'm not completely sold on that being the right play for Doomsday. Maybe if we were packing Grief to pitch the extras drawn. Yes, the deck is supposed to win in the first few turns. That likely makes Leyline the right call. Still. Something feels off to me. Maybe that's my Bad Player Sense?
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