Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2025-08-24

Now that is a drop in numbers.

Thursday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat

Sunday Challenge

SingPanMan

wcl

Wyjx

Core and Differences

Main Core: 46 cards Side Core: 7 cards

Core

Core-Combo (6)
Doomsday
Thassa's Oracle

Counter (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Will
Mental Misstep

Draw (9)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dig Through Time
Gitaxian Probe
Gush
Street Wraith

L⁣ands/Mana (15)
Black Lotus
Dark Ritual
Fetch Lands
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire

Tutor (9)
Demonic Consultation
Demonic Tutor
Time Walk
Undercity Sewers
Underground Sea
Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (7)
Fatal Push
Leyline of the Void
Snuff Out
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Tsubasa_Cat - 5th Place Differences

Main (14)
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Island
Necropotence
Ponder
Preordain
Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (8)
Consign to Memory
Fatal Push
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap
Murktide Regent
Steel Sabotage

SingPanMan - 22nd Place Differences

Main (14)
Consider
Daze
Duress
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Island
Preordain
Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (8)
Abhorrent Oculus
Fatal Push
Hullbreacher
Leyline of the Void
Snuff Out
Steel Sabotage

wcl - 23rd Place Differences

Main (14)
Consider
Flusterstorm
Island
Necropotence
Ponder
Preordain
Psychic Frog
Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (8)
Force of Negation
Leyline of the Void
Mindbreak Trap
Null Rod
Snuff Out
Steel Sabotage

Wyjx - 25th Place Differences

Main (14)
Daze
Dismember
Force of Negation
Lotus Petal
Mindbreak Trap
Mishra's Bauble
Necropotence
Ponder
Psychic Frog
Thoughtseize
Sideboard (8)
Balance
Consign to Memory
Energy Flux
Island
Leyline of the Void
Monastery Mentor
Stony Silence
Tundra

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (4)
Island
Lotus Petal

Counters (10)
Daze
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap

Draw (31)
Consider
Mishra's Bauble
Necropotence
Ponder
12 Preordain

Discard (2)
Duress
Thoughtseize

Creatures (5)
Psychic Frog

Removal (4)
Dismember
Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (0)

Anti-Graveyard (3)
Leyline of the Void

Anti-Artifacts (7)
Energy Flux
Null Rod
Steel Sabotage
Stony Silence

Creatures (6)
Abhorrent Oculus
Hullbreacher
Monastery Mentor
Murktide Regent

Lands (2)
Island
Tundra

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

Removal (6)
Balance
Fatal Push
Snuff Out

Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 1.75
AntiGraveyard 0.00 3.75
CoreCombo 6.00 0.00
Counter 9.50 2.00
Creature 1.25 1.50
Discard 0.50 0.00
Draw 18.50 0.00
LandsMana 21.00 0.50
Removal 0.25 5.50
Tutor 3.00 0.00
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 -0.17
Anti-Graveyard ±0 -0.25
Counter -0.27 -0.77
Creature +1.02 +0.19
Discard -0.12 ±0
Draw -0.65 ±0
Lands/Mana ±0 +0.42
Removal +0.02 +0.58

Thoughts

Mono-White Initiative is not a terrible matchup for Doomsday, but it can be rough enough that you just Get Vintage'd™. Such is the format, but when you hit MWI 2/3 of the time, you might think to put in Tundra for Balance. There are worse ideas.


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