Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.09.25-26
- Eric
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- on Oct 03, 2021
Hey, Friends and Shops Players, it's time for this week's deck list analysis. It seems that with no Vintage Showcase Challenge this season, Preliminaries are not firing. Hopefully that does not result in less Vintage events, but the challenges seem to still have good showings. Keep on playing!
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Core and Differences
Core
| Creatures (6) 4 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (13) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Time Walk 1 Treasure Cruise 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 (2) 2 Steel Sabotage |
01 yamakiller (16th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Daze 1 Flusterstorm 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (13) 2 Duress 3 Fatal Push 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Island 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Opposition Agent 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
02 TheJigIsAlwaysup (5th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Mystical Dispute 1 Pact of Negation 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (13) 1 Cavern of Souls 4 Force of Negation 2 Null Rod 2 Pact of Negation 2 Steel Sabotage 2 Thoughtseize |
03 revenantkioku (31st Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Flusterstorm 1 Pact of Negation 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (13) 1 Cavern of Souls 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Null Rod 1 Pact of Negation 1 Pithing Needle 2 Surgical Extraction 2 Thoughtseize |
04 Tiemuuu (32nd Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Cling to Dust 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation | Sideboard (13) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mystical Dispute 2 Steel Sabotage 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Draw (1) 1 Cling to Dust Counters (5) 1 Daze 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute 2 Pact of Negation Lands (6) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 3 Watery Grave | Graveyard (6) 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Surgical Extraction Artifacts (12) 3 Hurkyl's Recall 3 Null Rod 6 Steel Sabotage Discard (7) 3 Duress 4 Thoughtseize Creatures (2) 1 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang Lands (5) 2 Cavern of Souls 2 Island 1 Library of Alexandria Counters (10) 5 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Mystical Dispute 3 Pact of Negation Removal (9) 7 Fatal Push 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Other (1) 1 Pithing Needle |
Thoughts
TheJigIsAlwaysup returns this week with another Top 8 showing, so hey, maybe there is something to think about here.
Everything in the main is fairly standard, except for Tiemuuu playing Cling to Dust. While this is fairly good in a heavy Bazaar environment, I'm not sure the card gives us much value now. It has marginal use versus Jeskai and BUG, but not enough that I'd want it over something more reliable like a counterspell.
That said, everyone was playing Treasure Cruise this week. We need that card draw.
We see yamakiller and TheJigIsAlwaysup with no Graveyard sideboard cards. Tiemuuu being on four makes me think maybe they just grabbed a list to play Doomsday and had not in a while. Tasigur and the rest make it look like a staple list from a few months ago. Nothing wrong with that, just not finely tuned.
My sideboard was a mess. I wasn't sure where I wanted to be, and ended up with a lot of little options. I did play Dredge and Surgical Extraction bought me a turn, and then I misused one, so I'm not entirely sure how I'd rate them. Null Rod continues to impress, although it can be a bummer if "Whoops, I drew my artifacts." or "Whoops, didn't find the resources to put together my combo." But such is Magic some days.
Pithing Needle as a one-of didn't feel great and I see Jig dropped the play set of them to go all in on having counters and hate for Shops decks.
Cavern of Souls still seems like an interesting choice, but I have yet to have it come up. My problem has been I either win against Blue decks too quickly for it to matter, or I never resolve Doomsday against them. But that's more on my own
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