Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for Eternal Weekend Asia 2023
- Eric
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- on Nov 28, 2023
Another Eternal Weekend, and another 5 Doomsday players.
Lists
Core and Differences
Main Core: 41 cards Side Core: 1 cards
Core
| Core-Combo (6) 4 Doomsday 2 Thassa's Oracle Counter (6) 1 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Will 1 Mental Misstep Draw (5) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Necropotence 1 Time Walk Lands/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 (1) 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
14th - Eric Koziol Differences
| Main (19) 2 Daze 1 Dig Through Time 1 Dress Down 1 Flusterstorm 1 Gush 1 Peek 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 2 Spell Pierce 4 Street Wraith 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (14) 2 Cut Down 1 Dress Down 2 Force of Negation 1 Grafdigger's Cage 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 2 Null Rod 3 Steel Sabotage 1 Surgical Extraction |
41st - Yuto Suzuki Differences
| Main (19) 2 Daze 1 Dig Through Time 2 Dress Down 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Gush 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 2 Spell Pierce 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (14) 2 Annul 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Murktide Regent 2 Snuff Out 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
76th - Myojo Differences
| Main (19) 1 Daze 1 Dig Through Time 2 Dress Down 2 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Gush 4 Preordain 1 Spell Pierce 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (14) 1 Annul 2 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 1 Hurkyl's Recall 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Snuff Out 2 Steel Sabotage |
111th - hokuto kanbara Differences
| Main (19) 1 Bayou 2 Duress 1 Elvish Spirit Guide 2 Fetch Lands 1 Imperial Seal 1 Lotus Petal 4 Personal Tutor 1 Spoils of the Vault 1 Sunken Ruins 1 Swamp 4 Thoughtseize | Sideboard (14) 1 Collective Brutality 2 Duress 1 Elderscale Wurm 3 Force of Negation 1 Forest 1 Living Wish 4 Oath of Druids 1 Serra's Emissary |
120th - tensaku Differences
| Main (19) 1 Daze 1 Dig Through Time 2 Dress Down 1 Duress 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Gush 1 Lórien Revealed 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 4 Street Wraith | Sideboard (14) 1 Annul 2 Cut Down 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Snuff Out 2 Steel Sabotage |
Total Differences
| Lands/Mana (10) 1 Bayou 1 Elvish Spirit Guide 4 Fetch Lands 1 Lotus Petal 1 Sunken Ruins 1 Swamp 1 Watery Grave Counters (18) 6 Daze 4 Flusterstorm 2 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 5 Spell Pierce Draw (45) 4 Dig Through Time 4 Gush 1 Lórien Revealed 1 Peek 3 Ponder 16 Preordain 16 Street Wraith Discard (9) 5 Duress 4 Thoughtseize Removal (7) 7 Dress Down Tutors (6) 1 Imperial Seal 4 Personal Tutor 1 Spoils of the Vault | Anti-Graveyard (14) 1 Grafdigger's Cage 12 Leyline of the Void 1 Surgical Extraction Anti-Artifacts (13) 2 Hurkyl's Recall 2 Null Rod 9 Steel Sabotage Discard (3) 1 Collective Brutality 2 Duress Creatures (6) 1 Elderscale Wurm 1 Murktide Regent 1 Opposition Agent 1 Serra's Emissary 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Lands (3) 1 Forest 2 Island Counters (13) 4 Annul 6 Force of Negation 3 Mindbreak Trap Removal (13) 6 Cut Down 1 Dress Down 5 Snuff Out 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Other (5) 1 Living Wish 4 Oath of Druids |
| Main | Average | Side | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| CoreCombo | 6.0 | ||
| Counter | 9.6 | Counter | 2.6 |
| Discard | 1.8 | Discard | 0.6 |
| Draw | 14.0 | ||
| LandsMana | 22.0 | LandsMana | 0.6 |
| Removal | 1.4 | Removal | 3.6 |
| Tutor | 5.2 | Tutor | 0.2 |
| AntiArtifact | 2.6 | ||
| AntiGraveyard | 2.8 | ||
| Creature | 1.2 | ||
| Other | 0.8 |
Thoughts
That 14th could have been Top 8! Ah, Doomsday is difficult to play for eight rounds. I'm trying not to feel too bad about the tiny "mistakes" (some only mistakes with information I was only privy to later) and do my best to learn from them. But I digest.
Again, no one played Powerless Doomsday, but Hokutu Kanbara sure loves his Personal Tutors. I'm unsure about the Oath sideboard juke. I unfortunately did not get to see it in action, but I may just run a league with it because it is so wild. I definitely don't get Elvish Spirit Guide in the main, because game one the best it can do is help you cast Demonic Tutor. I feel like I'm missing something.
I disagree on Annul. Doomsday can let Oath resolve most of the time and Steel Sabotage is better against artifacts. Grafdigger's Cage helps against Oath and Lurrus decks. Also, theoretically the Bazaar decks I managed to dodge all day. (And it does stop the final room of Undercity, however I doubt I would side it in against Init.)
Null Rod won me some games against various Shops decks that I had no business winning otherwise. I like it. I really, really like it.
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