Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2026-09-20

I need a playable Spock card to go along with Bilbo. For the memes.

Thursday Challenge

TSUBASA_CAT (7TH PLACE)

CRAZYDIAMOND513 (10TH PLACE)

Sunday Challenge 16

SPOCKVIDALOKA (30TH PLACE)

League

TSUBASA_CAT (5-0)

WALL-E1 (5-0)

Core and Differences

Main Core: 41 cards Side Core: 5 cards

Core

// CoreCombo (5)
4 Doomsday
1 Thassa's Oracle

// Counter (6)
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Mental Misstep

// Draw (9)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
3 Ponder
1 Time Walk
// LandsMana (20)
1 Black Lotus
4 Dark Ritual
8 Fetch Lands
1 Island
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Underground Sea

// Tutor (1)
1 Demonic Tutor

// AntiArtifact (1)
1 Null Rod

// AntiGraveyard (4)
4 Leyline of the Void

Tsubasa_Cat - 7th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
2 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
3 Mishra's Bauble
1 Ponder
4 Psychic Frog
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
2 Unable to Scream
1 Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (10)
1 Consign to Memory
2 Force of Negation
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Snuff Out
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Unable to Scream

CrazyDiamond513 - 10th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
3 Flow State
2 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Raffine's Tower
2 Street Wraith
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Tundra
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (10)
1 Consign to Memory
1 Duress
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Null Rod
1 Steel Sabotage
4 Unable to Scream

SpockVidaLoka - 30th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Daze
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Flow State
1 Imperial Seal
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Ponder
2 Preordain
2 Spell Pierce
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Undercity Sewers
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (10)
1 Force of Negation
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Unable to Scream

Tsubasa_Cat - 5-0 Differences

Main (19)
2 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
2 Flow State
2 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
1 Lotus Petal
2 Lórien Revealed
1 Misdirection
1 Mishra's Bauble
4 Psychic Frog
1 Thoughtseize
1 Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (10)
1 Consign to Memory
1 Dismember
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Null Rod
1 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
3 Unable to Scream

Wall-E1 - 5-0 Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Duress
4 Flow State
2 Flusterstorm
1 Necropotence
1 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 The Fantasticar
1 Thoughtseize
1 Undercity Sewers
Sideboard (10)
3 Fatal Push
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Long Goodbye
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Thoughtseize

Total Differences

// CoreCombo (5)
4 Thassa's Oracle
1 The Fantasticar

// Counter (19)
3 Daze
8 Flusterstorm
5 Force of Negation
1 Misdirection
2 Spell Pierce

// Creature (10)
2 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
8 Psychic Frog

// Discard (4)
1 Duress
3 Thoughtseize

// Draw (36)
10 Flow State
2 Lórien Revealed
4 Mishra's Bauble
2 Necropotence
4 Ponder
3 Preordain
10 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise
// LandsMana (7)
1 Lotus Petal
1 Raffine's Tower
1 Tundra
4 Undercity Sewers

// Other (2)
2 Teferi, Time Raveler

// Removal (4)
2 Chain of Vapor
2 Unable to Scream

// Tutor (8)
4 Demonic Consultation
1 Imperial Seal
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Vampiric Tutor

// AntiArtifact (8)
2 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Null Rod
4 Steel Sabotage

// AntiGraveyard (1)
1 Soul-Guide Lantern

// Counter (14)
3 Consign to Memory
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Negation
5 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mystical Dispute

// Creature (4)
2 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Murktide Regent

// Discard (2)
1 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

// Removal (21)
1 Dismember
3 Fatal Push
1 Long Goodbye
3 Snuff Out
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
11 Unable to Scream

Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 2.60
AntiGraveyard 0.00 4.20
CoreCombo 6.00 0.00
Counter 9.80 2.80
Creature 2.00 0.80
Discard 0.80 0.40
Draw 16.20 0.00
LandsMana 21.40 0.00
Other 0.40 0.00
Removal 0.80 4.20
Tutor 2.60 0.00
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 +0.85
Anti-Graveyard ±0 +0.70
Core Combo -0.50 ±0
Counter +1.30 -0.45
Creature +2.00 -0.70
Discard -0.20 -0.10
Draw -3.05 ±0
Lands/Mana +0.40 ±0
Removal -0.20 -0.30
Tutor -0.15 ±0
Other +0.40 ±0

Thoughts

Bilbo is dominating Vintage, so we have to either use or or die, I guess? I don't know. Who has time to actually play Vintage when MTGO changed the times to be nearly unplayable for my time zone.

Thank god for paper Vintage.

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