Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.05.07
- Eric
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- on May 10, 2023
Only slight differences this week, but discoverN still slips in some surprises.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
League
Core and Differences
Core
| Creatures (6) 4 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (13) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Duress 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 (5) 1 Black Lotus 2 Mishra's Bauble 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Sapphire Enchantments (1) 1 Necropotence Sideboard (10) 2 Cut Down 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN - 6th Place Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent | Sideboard (5) 2 Dream Salvage 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent |
Tsubasa_Cat - 17th Place Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation | Sideboard (5) 1 Force of Negation 2 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Steel Sabotage |
discoverN - 8th Place Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent | Sideboard (5) 1 Dream Salvage 2 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Ray of Enfeeblement |
revenantkioku - 16th Place Differences
| Main (3) 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mishra's Bauble 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (5) 1 Force of Negation 2 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Soul Rend |
Tsubasa_Cat - 18th Place Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation | Sideboard (5) 2 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 2 Steel Sabotage |
Lodavier - 5-0 Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Mishra's Bauble | Sideboard (5) 1 Force of Negation 2 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Soul Rend |
Total Differences
| Lands/Mana (6) 5 Fetch Lands 1 Watery Grave Counters (8) 4 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Negation Draw (4) 2 Mishra's Bauble 2 Portent | Sideboard (0) Anti-Artifacts (3) 3 Steel Sabotage Draw (3) 3 Dream Salvage Creatures (13) 8 Murktide Regent 5 Opposition Agent Counters (8) 6 Force of Negation 2 Mindbreak Trap Removal (3) 1 Ray of Enfeeblement 2 Soul Rend |
Thoughts
Main Core: 57 cards Side Core: 10 cards
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Bauble wins! For now. If you expect lots of BUG (or decks with Collector Ouphe) and/or Null Rod, other (Blue) cards are likely the better choice, but for now 2 or 3 copies of Mishra's Bauble seems to be a staple. Flusterstorm, though. Is it better to trim down and have Force of Negation main? Might be with all the Jewel Shops coming around these days.
Tsubasa_Cat chose to play four copies of Steel Sabotage this week. Interesting, because the number has been two or three ever since Initiative showed up to the format. Speaking with them, it was a call based on the expected number of Jewel and Prison Shops, but even Tsubasa said that maybe discoverN's choice of going in on hard, specific counters such as 3 Force of Negation (1 main, 2 side) and 2 sideboard Mindbreak Trap might be a better choice for the current meta.
discoverN surprised me with a single copy of Ray of Enfeeblement. While it misses any Initiative creatures that have been pumped by Forge (The room in the dungeon that gives 2 +1/+1 counters.), it takes care of most of the creatures out of Initiative we are concerned about and also hits Lavinia in UW Initiative. Sure, it's no slowtrip, but one mana is what Doomsday wants to pay for its removal.
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