Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.04.09
- Eric
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- on Apr 12, 2023
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Preliminaries
[Falkoneye - 3-1
League
Core and Differences
Core
Creatures (2) 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (8) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 1 Time Walk Instants (17) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 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 Sideboard (7) 1 Force of Negation 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Diem4x - 1st Place Differences
MaxMagicer - 3rd Place Differences
discoverN - 9th Place Differences
Main (17) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Necropotence 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (8) 2 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Soul Rend 1 Subtlety 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
kauffj - 10th Place Differences
Main (17) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Necropotence 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (8) 2 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 2 Soul Rend 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Tsubasa_Cat - 11th Place Differences
Main (17) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Necropotence 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (8) 2 Cut Down 1 Duress 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Soul Rend 1 Steel Sabotage |
Tsubasa_Cat - 3rd Place Differences
Main (17) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Necropotence 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (8) 2 Cut Down 1 Duress 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Soul Rend 1 Steel Sabotage |
discoverN - 12th Place Differences
Main (17) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Necropotence 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (8) 2 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Soul Rend 1 Steel Sabotage 1 Subtlety |
notmi - 3-1 Differences
sandydogmtg - 4-0 Differences
discoverN - 3-1 Differences
Main (17) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Necropotence 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (8) 2 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Soul Rend 1 Subtlety 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Falkoneye - 3-1 Differences
discoverN (5-0) Differences
Main (17) 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 1 Duress 1 Fetch Lands 4 Mishra's Bauble 1 Necropotence 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (8) 2 Cut Down 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Soul Rend 1 Steel Sabotage 1 Subtlety 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
Tutors (12) 11 Demonic Consultation 1 Tinker Draw (145) 11 Dig Through Time 28 Mishra's Bauble 11 Necropotence 44 Preordain 3 Sensei's Divining Top 2 Sleight of Hand 44 Street Wraith 2 Treasure Cruise Counters (15) 7 Daze 4 Flusterstorm 3 Force of Negation 1 Spell Pierce Creatures (4) 4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Discard (8) 7 Duress 1 Thoughtseize Removal (1) 1 Fatal Push Lands/Mana (18) 11 Fetch Lands 1 Lotus Petal 1 Mana Crypt 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Sol Ring 1 Watery Grave Other (1) 1 Bolas's Citadel | Sideboard (96) 20 Cut Down 1 Dress Down 4 Duress 2 Fatal Push 4 Force of Negation 1 Gaea's Blessing 1 Hullbreacher 11 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 5 Opposition Agent 10 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 12 Soul Rend 11 Steel Sabotage 4 Subtlety 8 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
Main Core: 43 cards Side Core: 7 cards
Hey, Tinker Doomsday! That fudges the numbers a little bit.
Tinker Doomsday is a thing to discuss, but first, look at all those Baubles! This leads to quite a reduction of mostly Counters, but that's the trade for information and speed. Interestingly, this week everyone is either all-in on Bauble or running zero – quite a difference from recent weeks.
When people talk about a future of restricting Doomsday, I fear it will become another Tinker flavor, becuase that's how you do decks in this format. While it's a lot of life, Doomsday with a Citadel out is pretty much a guaranteed win that turn.
A slight shift up in Counters and Removal this week. Outside of Hullbreacher, even the Tinker Doomsday has a fairly standard sideboard.
Two Sheoldred, the Apocolypse – sometimes split between main and side – is becoming more common, showing that this deck is at its core a Dark Ritual deck, and likely the path it will actually take if Doomsday is restricted.
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