Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.11.12

The Eternal Weekends approach. Are you ready?

Saturday Challenge

ecobaronen - 31st Place

Sunday Challenge

SingPanMan - 19th Place

Tsubasa_Cat - 31st 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 (7)
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Mental Misstep

Draw (16)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
1 Necropotence
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 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 Duress
2 Steel Sabotage

ecobaronen - 31st Place Differences

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

SingPanMan - 19th Place Differences

Main (7)
2 Daze
2 Dress Down
1 Fetch Lands
2 Spell Pierce
Sideboard (12)
1 Annul
2 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Murktide Regent
2 Snuff Out
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat - 31st Place Differences

Main (7)
1 Duress
2 Fetch Lands
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Portent
Sideboard (12)
2 Cut Down
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

Maxtortion - 5-0 Differences

Main (7)
2 Daze
2 Flusterstorm
1 Lotus Petal
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (12)
1 Cut Down
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
1 Island
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Surgical Extraction

Total Differences

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

Counters (14)
6 Daze
5 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
2 Spell Pierce

Draw (5)
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Portent
2 Treasure Cruise

Discard (1)
1 Duress

Removal (2)
2 Dress Down
Anti-Graveyard (8)
7 Leyline of the Void
1 Surgical Extraction

Anti-Artifacts (4)
4 Steel Sabotage

Discard (2)
2 Duress

Creatures (3)
3 Murktide Regent

Lands (2)
2 Island

Counters (10)
1 Annul
2 Daze
1 Force of Negation
6 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (19)
5 Cut Down
3 Fatal Push
1 Ray of Enfeeblement
7 Snuff Out
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Thoughts

Pretty weak showing this week for Doomsday. The Lurrus decks are out in full force, with variants ranging to Blue-White builds with Lavinia – not a great card for Doomsday. Jewel Shoppes is also quite high. Now, Jewel Shoppes is a good matchup for Doomsday. However. It is very similar to Oops in that while it is in general a good matchup, the deck can just do its thing very efficiently and Doomsday doesn't get there. I'd put Dredge in this pile as well.

Lurrus Saga is similar to the CounterVine matchup: Disruption plus Clock equals bad time for Doomsday.

So, this puts us in the situation we have right now where people are shuffling sideboards around trying to find what hits best.

My gut feeling right now is not many people are going to be registering Doomsday for Eternal Weekend, and those that do are going to be praying for RNG to help with the Matchup Lottery.

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