Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.07.10-11
- Eric
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- on Jul 17, 2021
We have some interesting differences this week. With the Showcase Qualifier coming up, it's worth diving into these differences.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Preliminaries
League
Core and Differences
Core
| Creatures (6) 4 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (12) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Time Walk Instants (21) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 3 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor | Lands (13) 8 Fetch Lands 1 Island 4 Underground Sea Artifacts (3) 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Sapphire Sideboard (6) 1 Fatal Push 4 Steel Sabotage 1 Island |
ecobaronen (1st Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 1 Necropotence 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (9) 2 Duress 2 Fatal Push 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Null Rod |
MaxMagicer (13th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (9) 1 Duress 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
ZYURYO (16th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (9) 1 Duress 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN (24th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (9) 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Mindbreak Trap 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Condescend (27th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (9) 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Mindbreak Trap 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Diem4x (2nd Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (9) 1 Duress 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
ecobaronen (17th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 1 Necropotence 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (9) 2 Duress 2 Fatal Push 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Null Rod |
discoverN (18th Place) Differences
| Main (5) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (9) 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Mindbreak Trap 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
revenantkioku (3-1) Differences
Total Differences
| Main (0) Draw (17) 1 Cling to Dust 8 Necropotence 6 Portent 2 Treasure Cruise Creatures (1) 1 Opposition Agent Counters (18) 2 Daze 2 Flusterstorm 7 Force of Negation 7 Mystical Dispute Lands (9) 7 Fetch Lands 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (28) 28 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (9) 5 Hurkyl's Recall 4 Null Rod Discard (7) 7 Duress Creatures (4) 4 Opposition Agent Lands (6) 6 Library of Alexandria Counters (10) 10 Mindbreak Trap Removal (17) 6 Fatal Push 11 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
A 55-6 core is interesting as we have not seen much deviation lately. I usually do not make charts for main differences, but this week seems to call for one.,
So, bad on me for replacing Necropotence for Opposition Agent. Screwing myself with data to handle here. But I personally have not really missed ol' Skullface. The only time I wanted it was in the mirror, and they countered my Agent anyway, so I doubt Necro would have resolved. That said, is it right? I'm not sold yet.
Portent leads over Treasure Cruise, which is a curious choice to be sure. The thing here is that it was used by ecobaronen, who also chose to go with an extra Daze and Flusterstorm instead of Force of Negation and Mystical Dispute. My guess is these would help fill your graveyard faster, making Treasure Cruise more powerful.
These are mostly the same, but ecobaronen made the interesting choice of foregoing any Bazaar hate and instead going hard on Artifacts. With all the Urza's Sagas around, this does not seem to be a bad idea, especially considering some thing Bazaar decks are weaker now. I don't agree, but that seems to be a common thought.
But here's the thing about Doomsday versus Bazaar decks. It's really a tossup. And while Leyline of the Void is a good card, if we're not playing it, we can just focus on the win. Thinking of Bazaar matchups as a combo race instead of an aggro/control matchup is probably a good idea. I reached out to ecobaronen and the plan for the matchup seems to be to take out Necropotence and Mental Misstep for the two copies of Duress,
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