Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.03.05

No top 8s this past week, but Doomsday goes on.

Saturday Challenge

harringmatang - 17th Place

SenpaiBlank - 24th Place

L4rss0n - 31st Place

Sunday Challenge

discoverN - 12th Place

revenantkioku - 15th Place

SenpaiBlank - 29th Place

L4rss0n - 30th Place

Core and Differences

Core

Creatures (6)
Street Wraith
Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (12)
Demonic Tutor
Doomsday
Gitaxian Probe
Ponder
Preordain
Time Walk

Instants (20)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dark Ritual
Demonic Consultation
Dig Through Time
Flusterstorm
Force of Will
Gush
Mental Misstep
Mystical Tutor
Vampiric Tutor
Lands (13)
Fetch Lands
Island
Underground Sea

Artifacts (3)
Black Lotus
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire

Enchantments (1)
Necropotence

Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Mindbreak Trap
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

harringmatang - 17th Place Differences

Main (5)
Fetch Land
Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (4)
Duress
Murktide Regent
Subtlety

SenpaiBlank - 24th Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Land
Force of Negation
Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (4)
Fatal Push
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Snuff Out
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

L4rss0n - 31st Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Force of Negation
Sleight of Hand
Watery Grave
Sideboard (1)
Opposition Agent

discoverN - 12th Place Differences

Main (5)
Fetch Land
Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (4)
Duress
Murktide Regent
Subtlety
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

revenantkioku - 15th Place Differences

Main (5)
Mishra's Bauble
Watery Grave
Sideboard (4)
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent
Subtlety

SenpaiBlank - 29th Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Land
Force of Negation
Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (4)
Fatal Push
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Snuff Out
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

L4rss0n - 30th Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Force of Negation
Sleight of Hand
Watery Grave
Sideboard (1)
Opposition Agent

Total Differences

Draw (16)
13 Mishra's Bauble
Sleight of Hand

Counters (8)
Daze
Force of Negation

Discard (4)
Duress

L⁣ands (7)
Fetch Lands
Watery Grave
Sideboard (0)

Discard (2)
Duress

Creatures (9)
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Removal (11)
Fatal Push
Snuff Out
Subtlety
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

Main Core: 55 cards Side Core: 10 cards
It's been quite some time since the sideboards were this similar. Or so I thought until I saw that L4rss0n was playing 12 cards. Either it was a error on their part or the MTGO site, but I could not figure out which.


The Bauble and No-Bauble split is real. SenpaiBlank even tested one. I've been asked how I feel about it and it's hard to describe. It's easy to trim one for games two and three. It sets up some piles as well.


The Graveyard and Artifact cards in the sideboard being exactly the same tells me that everyone is focused on the other matchups. Tabernacle counts are slightly up. Everything else is kind of hard to tell because of the cards missing from L4rss0n's side, but generally not much is different.

Initiative Tinker being the current hot thing is quite interesting for Doomsday. It's not a terrible matchup, but interesting. The two plans of the deck can be tough for Doomsday is they execute the one that you are not ready to fight. Especially when they have the Initiative with some counterspell backup. I'm not sure Doomsday has to adjust its plans for this matchup, but rather recognize quickly which way the wind is headed and be prepared.


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