Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.04.30

Low numbers this week and not even a single top 8. The cycle continues.

Saturday Challenge

notmi (17th Place)

Tsubasa_Cat (27th Place)

Sunday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat - 26th Place

Breckoroni - 32nd Place

League

discoverN - 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 (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 (8)
1 Force of Negation
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

notmi (17th Place) Differences

Main (6)
2 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
1 Lotus Petal
1 Spell Pierce
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (7)
1 Dismember
1 Dress Down
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Subtlety
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat (27th Place) Differences

Main (6)
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
3 Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
1 Soul Rend

Tsubasa_Cat - 26th Place Differences

Main (6)
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
3 Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
1 Soul Rend

Breckoroni - 32nd Place Differences

Main (6)
1 Duress
4 Mishra's Bauble
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (6)
2 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Soul Rend
1 Subtlety

discoverN - 5-0 Differences

Main (6)
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
1 Force of Negation
2 Mishra's Bauble
1 Portent
Sideboard (7)
2 Cut Down
1 Dress Down
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
1 Soul Rend

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (6)
3 Fetch Lands
1 Lotus Petal
2 Watery Grave

Counters (5)
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Spell Pierce

Draw (15)
2 Daze
12 Mishra's Bauble
1 Portent

Discard (4)
4 Duress
Creatures (10)
4 Murktide Regent
4 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Counters (6)
2 Force of Negation
4 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (18)
8 Cut Down
1 Dismember
2 Dress Down
4 Soul Rend
2 Subtlety
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

Main Core: 54 cards Side Core: 8 cards

Number of deck lists and variety dipped hard this week.


No fancy things this week. No main Sheoldred of Fatal Push. Mishra's Bauble or extra Counters. Clean and efficient. Or is it? When Mono White Initiative and Shops numbers are high, do we need something extra in the main? Or should Doomsday focus on ABCD? My feelings are leaning to the latter and why I'm liking Baubles more and more. Get information. Get cards. Cast Doomsday and win.


Creatures and Removal are slightly up this week in an overall flattening of variety. But as Tinker decks are overall doing the best, we need to fight the combo by being a faster combo with the necessary resiliances to win. There's not much room for being fancy in Vintage these days.

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Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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