Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.08.21-22
- Eric
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- on Aug 28, 2021
We have more than one decklist this week! Is Doomsday back? Or is it just the cycle of things?
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 Enchantments (1) 1 Necropotence Sideboard (5) 1 Island 4 Steel Sabotage |
levunga21 (14th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Duress 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl's Recall 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Null Rod |
bennybo (8th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 2 Duress 3 Fatal Push 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SingPanMan (22nd Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 1 Chain of Vapor 3 Leyline of the Void 2 Mindbreak Trap 2 Opposition Agent 1 Planar Void 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
revenantkioku (27th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 1 Dress Down 1 Grafdigger's Cage 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Opposition Agent 2 Surgical Extraction 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
duke12 (3-1) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Daze 1 Fetch Land 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (10) 2 Duress 3 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
duke12 (4-0) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Daze 1 Fetch Land 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (10) 2 Duress 3 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Null Rod 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Draw (6) 2 Portent 4 Treasure Cruise Counters (11) 3 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 2 Force of Negation 5 Mystical Dispute Discard (1) 1 Duress | Lands (6) 2 Fetch Lands 4 Watery Grave Graveyard (11) 1 Grafdigger's Cage 7 Leyline of the Void 1 Planar Void 2 Surgical Extraction Artifacts (10) 7 Hurkyl's Recall 3 Null Rod Discard (7) 7 Duress Creatures (7) 7 Opposition Agent Lands (2) 2 Library of Alexandria Counters (5) 5 Mindbreak Trap Removal (18) 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Dress Down 11 Fatal Push 5 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
56 Main and 5 Side cards are the same this week. As usaualy we have the [[Watery Grave]] players, so it's the same three slots that we've discussed before. What Draw or Interaction do you choose and what numbers? Nothing interesting in this, except for maybe a main [[Duress]] which hasn't been seen much as of late. [[Treasure Cruise]] is up and that is probably a result of the influx of Jeskai to fight the influx of Tinker. That's how the meta game works, right? Sideboards are interesting, though.
The big showers here are [[Fatal Push]] and [[Duress]]. Again, Jeskai. Unique cards include [[Grafdigger's Cage]] and [[Dress Down]]. (Played by me, whoops.) I think I was a week behind on Dress Down, although it does buy a turn against [[Tarmogoyf]])(s) as well as opens up some options against [[Lavinia Azorius Renegade]]. Granted, [[Fatal Push]] might just be better because we can just use [[Hurkyl's Recall]] to get rid of Constructs and Fatal Push is the permanent answer we need more often. That said, testing because that's how we do the game, eh? (Also, I'm not disregarding SingPanMan's unique choices, but they have been well discussed.)
Doomsday is on a downswing. One person registered it in the ManaTraders Series this weekend and I didn't write an article last week not because I was lazy or busy (I was.) but because there was one list in all the events posted. Yikes.
That said, Magic is cyclical. As people fight the Big Jeskai Menace, Doomsday might find a way to sneak back in. Or we find better, more universal sideboard cards. Or, as always, better lucky than good.
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