Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.02.26

A new kind of Initiative deck. No wait. A new kind of Tinker deck. Wait. A new Initiative Tinker Hybrid made its debut this weekend. And while Doomsday did okay, what changes are necessary to keep up?

Saturday Showcase Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat – 3rd Place

discoverN – 16th Place

Vertyx_ – 21st Place

SenpaiBlank – 27th Place

Sunday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat – 15th Place

SenpaiBlank – 17th Place

discoverN – 22nd Place

Preliminaries

discoverN – 3-1

League

TakeYourT1me – 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 (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 (14)
9 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 Mindbreak Trap
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat - 3rd Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
3 Mishra’s Bauble
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
2 Subtlety

discoverN - 16th Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Flusterstorm
4 Mishra’s Bauble
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
2 Murktide Regent
1 Subtlety

Vertyx_ - 21st Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
2 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
2 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

SenpaiBlank - 27th Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat - 15th Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Flusterstorm
4 Mishra’s Bauble
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

SenpaiBlank - 17th Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

discoverN - 22nd Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Flusterstorm
4 Mishra’s Bauble
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Murktide Regent
1 Subtlety
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

discoverN - 3-1 Differences

Main (5)
1 Flusterstorm
4 Mishra’s Bauble
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
2 Murktide Regent
1 Subtlety

TakeYourT1me - 5-0 Differences

Main (5)
2 Daze
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (7)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Duress
2 Fatal Push
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Steel Sabotage

Total Differences

Draw (23)
19 Mishra’s Bauble
4 Sleight of Hand

Counters (17)
5 Daze
8 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Negation

Discard (5)
5 Duress
Artifacts (1)
1 Steel Sabotage

Discard (5)
5 Duress

Creatures (13)
6 Murktide Regent
2 Opposition Agent
5 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (2)
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria

Counters (8)
8 Force of Negation

Removal (34)
1 Chain of Vapor
14 Cut Down
6 Fatal Push
4 Snuff Out
5 Subtlety
4 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

Main Core: 55 cards Side Core: 8 cards


There’s not much of a difference from last week. Slightly less Discard and Counters and a little increase in Draw. More people are starting to join the Mishra’s Bauble party.

Not much changed in the sideboards this week. Mostly a streamlining of Artifact hate to Steel Sabotage. I gave Energy Flux a try this weekend in my paper event, but my opponent cast a Sphere of Resistance every turn so what can you do? Doomsday needs to keep it simple.

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