Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2025.02.09

Congrats to ScreenwriterNY on winning the Qualifier!

Thursday Challenge

2plus2isfive

Tsubasa_Cat

Friday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat

Matti

Saturday Challenge

Diem4x

Xenowan

Sunday Challenge

Jujkata

Tsubasa_Cat

Qualifier

ScreenwriterNY

EmreKilic

Core and Differences

Main Core: 52 cards Side Core: 6 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
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise

L⁣ands/Mana (21)
1 Black Lotus
4 Dark Ritual
8 Fetch Lands
1 Island
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Undercity Sewers
4 Underground Sea

Tutor (2)
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
Sideboard (6)
1 Force of Negation
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Murktide Regent

2plus2isfive - 5th Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Consider
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (9)
2 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
2 Murktide Regent
1 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out

Tsubasa_Cat - 18th Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Preordain
Sideboard (9)
1 Consign to Memory
3 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat - 6th Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Preordain
Sideboard (9)
1 Consign to Memory
3 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Matti - 14th Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
1 Flusterstorm
3 Preordain
1 Thoughtseize
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (9)
3 Fatal Push
2 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out
1 Strip Mine
1 Yixlid Jailer

Diem4x - 1st Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Preordain
Sideboard (9)
1 Consign to Memory
3 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Xenowan - 21st Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Consider
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
3 Preordain
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (9)
4 Fatal Push
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Null Rod
1 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Jujkata - 8th Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Preordain
Sideboard (9)
2 Consign to Memory
3 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat - 29th Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Preordain
Sideboard (9)
1 Consign to Memory
3 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

ScreenwriterNY - 1st Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Consider
1 Daze
2 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Lórien Revealed
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (9)
1 Dismember
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
2 Snuff Out
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

EmreKilic - 12th Place Differences

Main (8)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fatal Push
3 Preordain
1 Thoughtseize
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (9)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Fatal Push
1 Murktide Regent
1 Mystical Dispute
2 Null Rod
1 Strip Mine
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Counters (18)
2 Daze
9 Flusterstorm
7 Force of Negation

Draw (36)
6 Consider
1 Lórien Revealed
29 Preordain

Discard (11)
9 Duress
2 Thoughtseize

Removal (4)
2 Chain of Vapor
2 Fatal Push

Tutors (11)
6 Mystical Tutor
5 Vampiric Tutor
Anti-Graveyard (1)
1 Yixlid Jailer

Anti-Artifacts (9)
6 Null Rod
3 Steel Sabotage

Creatures (10)
10 Murktide Regent

Counters (26)
9 Consign to Memory
5 Force of Negation
11 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mystical Dispute

Removal (44)
1 Dismember
26 Fatal Push
7 Snuff Out
2 Strip Mine
8 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale


Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 0.90
AntiGraveyard 0.00 4.10
CoreCombo 6.00 0.00
Counter 8.80 3.60
Creature 0.00 2.00
Discard 1.10 0.00
Draw 19.60 0.00
LandsMana 21.00 0.00
Removal 0.40 4.40
Tutor 3.10 0.00
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 -0.69
Anti-Graveyard ±0 +0.04
Counter -0.32 +0.72
Creature ±0 +0.06
Discard +0.45 -0.06
Draw +0.07 ±0
Lands/Mana -0.06 ±0
Removal -0.13 -0.01
Tutor +0.04 -0.06
Other -0.06 ±0

Thoughts

Double Discard in the winning list. The Copy-Paste effect means we will see quite a bit of Discard next week, and that might be the right call with the way the format seems to be heading.

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