Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.11.05

Three Street Wraiths? In this meta? With all these Lurrus decks?

Saturday Challenge

ecobaronen - 4th Place

discoverN - 10th Place

Sunday Challenge

JUJUBEAN__2004 - 9th Place

ecobaronen - 15th Place

League

Maxtortion - 5-0

Core and Differences

Main Core: 53 cards Side Core: 3 cards

Core

Core-Combo (6)
4 Doomsday
2 Thassa's Oracle

Counter (8)
3 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Mental Misstep

Draw (15)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
1 Necropotence
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
3 Street Wraith
1 Time Walk

L⁣ands/Mana (20)
1 Black Lotus
4 Dark Ritual
8 Fetch Lands
1 Island
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Underground Sea

Tutor (4)
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (3)
1 Cut Down
2 Steel Sabotage

ecobaronen - 4th Place Differences

Main (7)
2 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (12)
1 Cut Down
1 Daze
2 Duress
1 Island
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage

discoverN - 10th Place Differences

Main (7)
1 Duress
2 Fetch Lands
1 Force of Negation
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Portent
1 Street Wraith
Sideboard (12)
1 Cut Down
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
3 Leyline of the Void
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Ray of Enfeeblement
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

JUJUBEAN__2004 - 9th Place Differences

Main (7)
2 Daze
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Street Wraith
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (12)
1 Cut Down
2 Duress
1 Island
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
2 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage

ecobaronen - 15th Place Differences

Main (7)
2 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (12)
1 Cut Down
1 Daze
2 Duress
1 Island
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage

Maxtortion - 5-0 Differences

Main (7)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Peek
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (12)
3 Dauthi Voidwalker
2 Energy Flux
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
2 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (6)
2 Fetch Lands
4 Watery Grave

Counters (12)
7 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation

Draw (13)
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Peek
1 Portent
1 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Sleight of Hand
4 Street Wraith
2 Treasure Cruise

Discard (3)
3 Duress

Removal (1)
1 Chain of Vapor
Sideboard (0)

Anti-Graveyard (3)
3 Leyline of the Void

Anti-Artifacts (8)
2 Energy Flux
6 Steel Sabotage

Discard (7)
7 Duress

Creatures (9)
3 Dauthi Voidwalker
4 Murktide Regent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (4)
4 Island

Counters (12)
2 Daze
2 Force of Negation
8 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (17)
4 Cut Down
1 Ray of Enfeeblement
10 Snuff Out
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

Three Street Wraiths in one list and three copies of Leyline of the Void amongst all five lists. It's a wild time. Even if Bazaar decks make a big comeback, there may be something to learn from these times.
Dauthi Voidwalker maybe? I like Maxtortion's list which is clearly trying to do things and see what sticks. I'm not sure pivoting to the beatdown plan is where Doomsday wants to be – and I might be wrong in even suggesting that's the idea. We live in a time where the most powerful cards in Magic are creatures. This is not what a lot of us older folk are used to, and this stubbornness can lead to game losses and match losses.

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