Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2022.08.06-07
- Eric
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- on Aug 09, 2022
If I excluded the GriefDay list I went 3-1 in the challenge, there would only be two differences in the lists this week. Fetch Land or Watery Grave in the main and Hurkyl's Recall or Steel Sabotage number 3 in the side.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Preliminaries
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 1 Portent 4 Preordain 1 Time Walk Instants (15) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 1 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 2 Flusterstorm 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 (8) 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Steel Sabotage 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Diem4x (2nd Place) Differences
| Main (9) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Portent | Sideboard (7) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 Steel Sabotage |
Tsubasa_Cat (3rd Place) Differences
| Main (9) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Portent | Sideboard (7) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 Steel Sabotage |
Diem4x (8th Place) Differences
| Main (9) 1 Fetch Land 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Portent | Sideboard (7) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 1 Steel Sabotage |
revenantkioku (30th Place) Differences
| Main (9) 2 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 4 Force of Will 1 Portent 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (7) 2 Fatal Push 1 Force of Negation 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent |
revenantkioku (3-1) Differences
| Main (9) 1 Daze 2 Duress 4 Grief 1 Night's Whisper 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (7) 1 Energy Flux 4 Phyrexian Obliterator 2 Steel Sabotage |
Total Differences
| Draw (5) 1 Night's Whisper 4 Portent Counters (29) 1 Daze 8 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Negation 16 Force of Will Discard (6) 2 Duress 4 Grief Lands (5) 3 Fetch Lands 2 Watery Grave | Artifacts (7) 1 Energy Flux 1 Hurkyl's Recall 5 Steel Sabotage Creatures (12) 8 Murktide Regent 4 Phyrexian Obliterator Counters (8) 4 Force of Negation 4 Mindbreak Trap Removal (8) 8 Fatal Push |
Thoughts
Main Core: 51 cards Side Core: 8 cards
I don't have much to say this week. Congrats to Diem4x for doing quite well both days, but overall the deck didn't do very well. I won't say it is player error, either, as some usual players did rather poorly. Luck? The cycle of the format?
The only slight change I am on is a Hurkyl's Recall because Shops is up in numbers at the moment. I've also run into HollowVine quite a bit, and those matches tend to be tough. Free creatures plus counterspells makes for a tough matchup as Doomsday. I wonder if it's time for Duress to come back in the main again, but perhaps sticking to the tried and true lists is where we should be.
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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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