Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2024.04.21

It's a Lurrus world and all I've got is a hand full of Cantrips.

Thursday Challenge

Jujkata

Tsubasa_Cat

Friday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat

discoverN

Saturday Challenge

discoverN

gr33nashe

Clone9

Sunday Challenge

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revenantkioku

League

Clone9

Core and Differences

Main Core: 53 cards Side Core: 4 cards

Core

Core-Combo (6)
Doomsday
Thassa's Oracle

Counter (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Will
Mental Misstep

Draw (16)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dig Through Time
Gitaxian Probe
Gush
Necropotence
Ponder
Preordain
Street Wraith
Time Walk

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

Tutor (4)
Demonic Consultation
Demonic Tutor
Mystical Tutor
Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (4)
Cut Down
Mindbreak Trap
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Jujkata - 2nd Place Differences

Main (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Snuff Out
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat - 7th Place Differences

Main (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Murktide Regent
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Snuff Out

Tsubasa_Cat - 2nd Place Differences

Main (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Snuff Out

discoverN - 11th Place Differences

Main (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Mindbreak Trap
Orcish Bowmasters
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

discoverN - 30th Place Differences

Main (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Mindbreak Trap
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

gr33nashe - 42nd Place Differences

Main (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Snuff Out

Clone9 - 45th Place Differences

Main (7)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Lands
Force of Negation
Island
Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (11)
Fatal Push
Flusterstorm
Leyline of the Void
Murktide Regent
Null Rod
Steel Sabotage

discoverN - 20th Place Differences

Main (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Mindbreak Trap
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

revenantkioku - 34th Place Differences

Main (7)
Chain of Vapor
Misdirection
Ponder
Treasure Cruise
Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Dauthi Voidwalker
Dress Down
Duress
Force of Negation
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Snuff Out
Surgical Extraction

Clone9 - 5-0 Differences

Main (7)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Lands
Force of Negation
Island
Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (11)
Fatal Push
Leyline of the Void
Mindbreak Trap
Murktide Regent
Null Rod
Steel Sabotage

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (12)
Fetch Lands
Island
Undercity Sewers

Counters (19)
Daze
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Misdirection

Draw (34)
24 Ponder
Sleight of Hand
Treasure Cruise

Discard (4)
Duress

Removal (1)
Chain of Vapor
Sideboard (0)

Anti-Graveyard (38)
36 Leyline of the Void
Surgical Extraction

Anti-Artifacts (6)
Null Rod
Steel Sabotage

Discard (1)
Duress

Creatures (20)
Dauthi Voidwalker
Murktide Regent
Orcish Bowmasters
12 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Counters (20)
Flusterstorm
15 Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap

Removal (25)
Cut Down
Dress Down
Fatal Push
Snuff Out
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Main Averages Side Averages
CoreCombo 6.0
Counter 8.9 Counter 3.0
Creature 2.0
Discard 0.4 Discard 0.1
Draw 19.4
LandsMana 21.2
Removal 0.1 Removal 4.5
Tutor 4.0
AntiArtifact 1.6
AntiGraveyard 3.8
Main Difference Side Difference
Counter -0.51 Counter +0.09
Creature -0.14 Creature +0.55
Discard +0.22 Discard -0.08
Draw +1.17
Lands/Mana -0.12 Lands/Mana -0.18
Removal -0.49 Removal -0.23
Anti-Artifact -0.17
Anti-Graveyard -0.05 Anti-Graveyard +0.03
Other -0.09

Thoughts

Lean and mean decklists this week.
In fact, I'm the asshole playing Misdirection and Chain of Vapor and throwing off the balance. (And not doing too well, but I don't blame my one-offs! At least not yet.)
Treasure Cruise is back almost 100%. All those cantrips fillin' up the 'yard. It's kind of beautiful, as the Main Deck is becoming a lean cantripping machine, and it is so easy to side into what you need.
What we need, although, is becoming harder to define as the meta floats around Lurrus and Jewel in mysterious ways. My big fear is the number of people slotting Underworld Breach and Brain Freeze into Lurrus shells. The better Breach is, the worse Doomsday is going to do.


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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
And thanks! I love you.