Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2024.09.15

Goodbye Constructs, Hello Frogs

Thursday Challenge

jeunejulio

Jujkata

Tsubasa_Cat

Friday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat

discoverN

Saturday Challenge

discoverN

Sunday Challenge

taniguchi

discoverN

SingPanMan

League

SingPanMan

HaadfS

Core and Differences

Main Core: 50 cards Side Core: 7 cards

Core

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

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

Draw (14)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
4 Ponder
3 Preordain
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise

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

Tutor (2)
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
Sideboard (7)
1 Consign to Memory
1 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

jeunejulio - 26th Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Null Rod
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Jujkata - 31st Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Steel Sabotage

Tsubasa_Cat - 32nd Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Steel Sabotage

Tsubasa_Cat - 4th Place Differences

Main (10)
2 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
2 Mishra’s Bauble
3 Psychic Frog
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
1 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Steel Sabotage

discoverN - 5th Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Steel Sabotage

discoverN - 11th Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Steel Sabotage

taniguchi - 20th Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Duress
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Tundra
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
1 Balance
1 Consign to Memory
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Long Goodbye
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Null Rod
1 Yixlid Jailer

discoverN - 21st Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Daze
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Steel Sabotage

SingPanMan - 28th Place Differences

Main (10)
1 Duress
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
1 Dress Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Vexing Bauble

SingPanMan - 5-0 Differences

Main (10)
1 Duress
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
1 Dress Down
1 Force of Negation
1 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Vexing Bauble

HaadfS - 5-0 Differences

Main (10)
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Preordain
1 Spell Pierce
4 Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Psychic Frog
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Vampiric Tutor

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (11)
10 Island
1 Tundra

Counters (14)
5 Daze
8 Force of Negation
1 Spell Pierce

Draw (62)
2 Mishra’s Bauble
10 Necropotence
10 Preordain
40 Street Wraith

Discard (5)
5 Duress

Creatures (6)
2 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Monastery Mentor
3 Psychic Frog

Tutors (12)
9 Mystical Tutor
3 Vampiric Tutor
Anti-Graveyard (1)
1 Yixlid Jailer

Anti-Artifacts (17)
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
4 Null Rod
12 Steel Sabotage

Creatures (5)
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
2 Psychic Frog
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Counters (39)
8 Consign to Memory
17 Force of Negation
14 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (23)
1 Balance
2 Dress Down
14 Fatal Push
1 Long Goodbye
4 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tutors (1)
1 Vampiric Tutor

Other (2)
2 Vexing Bauble

Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 1.55
AntiGraveyard 0.00 4.09
CoreCombo 6.00 0.00
Counter 9.27 4.55
Creature 0.55 0.45
Discard 0.45 0.00
Draw 19.64 0.00
LandsMana 21.00 0.00
Other 0.00 0.18
Removal 0.00 4.09
Tutor 3.09 0.09
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 +0.05
Anti-Graveyard ±0 +0.09
Counter -0.48 -0.20
Creature +0.05 -0.05
Discard +0.20 ±0
Draw +0.14 ±0
Lands/Mana -0.25 ±0
Removal ±0 -0.16
Tutor +0.34 +0.09
Other ±0 +0.18

Thoughts

Look at Tsubasa_Cat’s spicy little Lurrus list. Dauthi Voidwalker is always a fun one that can become a Force of Will if you time things correctly. Frog is also, well, the new Big And Powerful. Hence, all those Fatal Pushes. I dunno about that, though, because even though Frog is not great for us, I have had enough games where an Opposition Agent or Archon of Emeria hits the table, and here I am like a dumbass with my Fatal Pushes and no way to get Revolt. But I digest.

Taniguchi’s White splash for Monastery Mentor and Balance is an old classic that has popped up from time to time.

Vampiric Tutor is still at low numbers in favor of Preordain. Pitches to Force™. I’m still finding enough games where I like the instant speed of the tutors to get me to my gameplan as soon as possible, but I get the logic of fighting against Lurrus’s card engine by not playing topdeck tutors, as they are card disadvantage. But sometimes, you know, sometimes they just win you the game. Which, that’s Vintage, baby.


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