Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2024.02.25

Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2024.02.25

It was an itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, Three List Doomsdata deck-y week-y.

Saturday Challenge

MagerMistake

League

Clone9

Nipponbashi Vintage Cup

Eric Koziol

Core and Differences

Main Core: 55 cards Side Core: 4 cards

Core

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

Counter (9)
1 Daze
2 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
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 (4)
1 Cut Down
2 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

MagerMistake - 54th Place Differences

Main (5)
1 Duress
1 Fetch Lands
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Spell Pierce
Sideboard (11)
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Soul Rend
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Clone9 - 5-0 Differences

Main (5)
2 Duress
1 Fetch Lands
1 Island
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (11)
1 Fatal Push
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Null Rod
1 Steel Sabotage

Eric Koziol - 5th Differences

Main (5)
1 Daze
1 Dress Down
1 Force of Negation
2 Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
1 Cut Down
2 Dress Down
2 Force of Negation
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Island
1 Murktide Regent
2 Surgical Extraction

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (5)
2 Fetch Lands
1 Island
2 Undercity Sewers

Counters (4)
1 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Spell Pierce

Draw (2)
2 Sleight of Hand

Discard (3)
3 Duress

Removal (1)
1 Dress Down
Anti-Graveyard (12)
2 Grafdigger's Cage
8 Leyline of the Void
2 Surgical Extraction

Anti-Artifacts (3)
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Null Rod
1 Steel Sabotage

Creatures (5)
3 Murktide Regent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (1)
1 Island

Counters (5)
3 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (7)
1 Cut Down
2 Dress Down
2 Fatal Push
1 Soul Rend
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Main Averages Side Averages
CoreCombo 6.0
Counter 10.33 Counter 1.67
Creature 1.67
Discard 1.0
Draw 16.67
LandsMana 21.67 LandsMana 0.33
Removal 0.33 Removal 4.33
Tutor 4.0
AntiArtifact 3.0
AntiGraveyard 4.0
Main Difference Side Difference
Counter -0.17 Counter +0.17
Creature -0.71
Discard +0.50 Discard -0.25
Draw +1.04
Lands/Mana -0.58 Lands/Mana +0.08
Removal -0.29 Removal -0.17
Tutor -0.25
Anti-Artifact +0.13
Anti-Graveyard +0.75
Other -0.25

Thoughts

With a Top 8 showing last week, I expected a few more players to register Doomsday. The meta doesn't even look particularly bad at the moment. UB Lurrus is a problem. But many people are splashing White or playing UW, which isn't as bad. Any dilution in Lurrus helps Doomsday. Dredge is popular but also a coin flip match. Dredge players tell me the Doomsday matchup is hard. I don't know if I agree.

I'm up to three copies of Dress Down. Saga is rampant. What's new? Well, my copies of Undercity Sewers are, and they are lovely. I must write my thoughts about that card because it is a doozy.


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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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