Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2025-08-31

What is going on?

Thursday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat

Wyjx

Friday Challenge

Tsubasa_Cat

revenantkioku

Saturday Challenge

blub_blub

XShockWaveX

League

XShockWaveX

Core and Differences

Main Core: 39 cards Side Core: 3 cards

Core

Core-Combo (5)
4 Doomsday
1 Thassa’s Oracle

Counter (7)
2 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will

Draw (7)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk

L⁣ands/Mana (19)
1 Black Lotus
4 Dark Ritual
8 Fetch Lands
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Underground Sea

Tutor (1)
1 Demonic Tutor
Sideboard (3)
3 Leyline of the Void

Tsubasa_Cat - 3rd Place Differences

Main (21)
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Island
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
3 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa’s Oracle
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (12)
2 Consign to Memory
3 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Wyjx - 26th Place Differences

Main (21)
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dismember
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Mishra’s Bauble
1 Necropotence
3 Ponder
1 Psychic Frog
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa’s Oracle
1 Thoughtseize
1 Undercity Sewers
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (12)
1 Balance
1 Consign to Memory
1 Energy Flux
2 Fatal Push
1 Island
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Snuff Out
1 Stony Silence
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Tundra

Tsubasa_Cat - 13th Place Differences

Main (21)
1 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Island
1 Lórien Revealed
1 Mental Misstep
3 Mishra’s Bauble
3 Ponder
4 Psychic Frog
2 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (12)
1 Consign to Memory
4 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage

revenantkioku - 18th Place Differences

Main (21)
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Consider
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Island
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
3 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa’s Oracle
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (12)
2 Consign to Memory
1 Dismember
3 Fatal Push
2 Force of Negation
1 Murktide Regent
1 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

blub_blub - 14th Place Differences

Main (21)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Duress
1 Island
1 Mental Misstep
1 Necropotence
3 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa’s Oracle
1 Undercity Sewers
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (12)
3 Fatal Push
1 Flusterstorm
1 Leyline of the Void
2 Murktide Regent
3 Steel Sabotage
1 Subtlety
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

XShockWaveX - 19th Place Differences

Main (21)
1 Chain of Vapor
2 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
2 Island
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa’s Oracle
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Vexing Bauble
Sideboard (12)
1 Dress Down
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
4 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

XShockWaveX - 5-0 Differences

Main (21)
1 Chain of Vapor
2 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
2 Island
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa’s Oracle
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Vexing Bauble
Sideboard (12)
1 Dress Down
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
4 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Core Combo (6)
6 Thassa’s Oracle

L⁣ands/Mana (12)
6 Island
1 Lotus Petal
5 Undercity Sewers

Counters (23)
7 Daze
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
6 Mental Misstep
3 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
2 Mystical Dispute

Draw (73)
4 Consider
1 Lórien Revealed
5 Mishra’s Bauble
5 Necropotence
15 Ponder
16 Preordain
24 Street Wraith
3 Treasure Cruise

Discard (4)
1 Duress
3 Thoughtseize

Creatures (7)
5 Psychic Frog
2 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student

Removal (5)
4 Chain of Vapor
1 Dismember

Tutors (13)
6 Demonic Consultation
3 Mystical Tutor
4 Vampiric Tutor

Other (2)
2 Vexing Bauble
Anti-Graveyard (5)
5 Leyline of the Void

Anti-Artifacts (18)
1 Energy Flux
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
14 Steel Sabotage
1 Stony Silence

Discard (2)
2 Duress

Creatures (6)
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
1 Monastery Mentor
4 Murktide Regent

Lands (2)
1 Island
1 Tundra

Counters (19)
6 Consign to Memory
3 Flusterstorm
5 Force of Negation
5 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (32)
1 Balance
1 Dismember
2 Dress Down
15 Fatal Push
4 Snuff Out
1 Subtlety
8 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 2.57
AntiGraveyard 0.00 3.71
CoreCombo 5.86 0.00
Counter 10.29 2.71
Creature 1.00 0.86
Discard 0.57 0.29
Draw 17.43 0.00
LandsMana 21.00 0.29
Other 0.29 0.00
Removal 0.71 4.57
Tutor 2.86 0.00
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 +0.82
Anti-Graveyard ±0 -0.04
Core Combo -0.14 ±0
Counter +0.79 +0.71
Creature -0.25 -0.64
Discard +0.07 +0.29
Draw -1.07 ±0
Lands/Mana ±0 -0.21
Removal +0.46 -0.93
Tutor -0.14 ±0
Other +0.29 ±0

Thoughts

There is quite a diversity in lists here, especially in the sideboard, as people are trying to figure out how to handle this meta. Dredge and other Bazaar decks are so low that people are trimming a Leyline of the Void because, hey, the week you cut all of them is the week you play nothing but Bazaar.


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