Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.03.12
- Eric
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- on Mar 15, 2023
Doomsday’s dipping! Four lists this week.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
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 (9) 1 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 3 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
IamActuallyLvL1 - 31st Place Differences
| Main (6) 2 Daze 1 Duress 1 Flusterstorm 1 Lotus Petal 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (6) 1 Cavern of Souls 1 Leyline of the Void 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Snuff Out 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN - 13th Place Differences
| Main (6) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra’s Bauble | Sideboard (6) 1 Cut Down 1 Duress 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Soul Rend 1 Subtlety 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
L4rss0n - 29th Place Differences
| Main (6) 1 Daze 1 Duress 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (3) 1 Cut Down 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Opposition Agent |
notmi - 3-1 Differences
| Main (6) 2 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 1 Lotus Petal 1 Spell Pierce 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (6) 1 Cut Down 1 Dauthi Voidwalker 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Draw (5) 4 Mishra’s Bauble 1 Sleight of Hand Counters (10) 5 Daze 3 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Spell Pierce Discard (3) 3 Duress Lands/Mana (6) 1 Fetch Lands 2 Lotus Petal 3 Watery Grave | Graveyard (3) 3 Leyline of the Void Discard (1) 1 Duress Creatures (7) 1 Dauthi Voidwalker 1 Murktide Regent 2 Opposition Agent 3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Lands (4) 1 Cavern of Souls 3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Removal (6) 3 Cut Down 1 Snuff Out 1 Soul Rend 1 Subtlety |
Thoughts
Main Core: 54 cards Side Core: 9 cards
The Bauble and non-Bauble split continues. I feel like we will get to a point where one Bauble becomes staple as a cantrip. It does a lot of good, but discoverN could get good results with four copies of Sorrow’s Path.
The sides are fairly diverse, mostly due to notmi deciding to try to find the best creature to have in Doomsday’s sideboard. Hint: It’s most likely Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Check out that Soul Rend in discoverN’s list. A slowtrip from Mirage. It hits all the white Initiative creatures, Archon, Lavinia, and hell, even Monastery Mentor! I have a feeling we won’t be seeing it again in the coming weeks. But I’ve been wrong before.
Lots of double Tabernacles this week as well. With CounterVine the popular Bazaar deck of choice, Leyline of the Void doesn’t do enough work. I wouldn’t worry about needing two in paper though. Most players seem to stick to their Bazaar deck of choice. I still play against plenty of Dredge in paper even though I cannot remember the last time I saw it on MO.
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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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