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)
4 Doomsday
2 Thassa’s Oracle

Counter (7)
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Mental Misstep

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

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

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

Tsubasa_Cat - 5th Place Differences

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

SingPanMan - 22nd Place Differences

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

wcl - 23rd Place Differences

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

Wyjx - 25th Place Differences

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

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (4)
3 Island
1 Lotus Petal

Counters (10)
2 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap

Draw (31)
5 Consider
2 Mishra’s Bauble
3 Necropotence
9 Ponder
12 Preordain

Discard (2)
1 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

Creatures (5)
5 Psychic Frog

Removal (4)
1 Dismember
3 Treasure Cruise
Anti-Graveyard (3)
3 Leyline of the Void

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

Creatures (6)
2 Abhorrent Oculus
2 Hullbreacher
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Murktide Regent

Lands (2)
1 Island
1 Tundra

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

Removal (6)
1 Balance
3 Fatal Push
2 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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