Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.06.04

These Daze we need good, fast counterspells. Unfortunately, The One True Removal Spell will never exist.

Saturday Challenge

Phill_Hellmuth - 7th Place

Tsubasa_Cat - 9th Place

discoverN - 11th Place

MaxMagicer - 17th Place

Sunday Challenge

discoverN - 1st Place

Tsubasa_Cat - 30th Place

League

ravidel85 - 5-0

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 Negation
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 (9)
Cut Down
Leyline of the Void
Mindbreak Trap
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Phill_Hellmuth - 7th Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Land
Mishra's Bauble
Portent
Sideboard (6)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap
Ray of Enfeeblement
Steel Sabotage

Tsubasa_Cat - 9th Place Differences

Main (5)
Duress
Fetch Land
Mindbreak Trap
Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (6)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent
Soul Rend
Steel Sabotage

discoverN - 11th Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Land
Mishra's Bauble
Portent
Sideboard (6)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap
Ray of Enfeeblement
Steel Sabotage

MaxMagicer - 17th Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Land
Flusterstorm
Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (6)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Opposition Agent
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

discoverN - 1st Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Land
Mishra's Bauble
Portent
Sideboard (6)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap
Ray of Enfeeblement
Snuff Out
Steel Sabotage

Tsubasa_Cat - 30th Place Differences

Main (5)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Land
Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (6)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap
Ray of Enfeeblement
Soul Rend
Steel Sabotage

ravidel85 - 5-0 Differences

Main (5)
Cut Down
Daze
Island
Opposition Agent
Sideboard (6)
Hurkyl's Recall
Murderous Cut
Murktide Regent
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Virtue's Ruin

Total Differences

Main (0)

L⁣ands/Mana (7)
Fetch Lands
Island

Counters (9)
Daze
Flusterstorm
Mindbreak Trap

Draw (11)
Mishra's Bauble
Portent
Sleight of Hand

Discard (6)
Duress

Creatures (1)
Opposition Agent

Removal (1)
Cut Down
Sideboard (0)

Anti-Artifacts (7)
Hurkyl's Recall
Steel Sabotage

Creatures (6)
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Counters (10)
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap

Removal (19)
Cut Down
Murderous Cut
Ray of Enfeeblement
Snuff Out
Soul Rend
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Virtue's Ruin

Thoughts

Main Core: 55 cards Side Core: 6 cards

Averages

Main Averages Side Averages
CoreCombo 6.0 AntiArtifact 3.0
Counter 10.29 AntiGraveyard 4.0
Creature 0.14 Counter 2.43
Discard 0.86 Creature 0.86
Draw 17.57 Removal 4.71
LandsMana 21.0
Removal 0.14
Tutor 4.0

Versus Last Week

Main Difference Side Difference
Counter +0.29 Anti-Artifact +0.25
Creature +0.14 Counter -0.07
Discard -0.14 Creature -0.64
Draw -0.43 Removal +0.46
Removal +0.14

Strong trends towards Removal this week. Jewel Shoppes is even giving us an uptick in Anti-Artifact cards.

Lots of Daze this week, and the most we've seen in a while. With the speed of the format, and more decks tapping out to do something quickly, it is regaining some of its former power. If we're seeing 2 copies in most decks in a week or two, I would not be surprised. Everything else is normal.


I like Murderous Cut, but I don't like siding Murktide Regent along with it.
As much as I sang the praises of Cut Down, I did not expect Fatal Push to disappear. Variety is the name of the game, right now, since nothing quite catches all the creatures Doomsday has to deal with.
As Magic trends towards creatures being more and more powerful, the removal needs to be better. But we will never see the One True Removal, and instead it will be a constant swapping of what is best for the current moment. Soul Rend surely would not have come out of Bulk Bins were there something better.


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