Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for Eternal Weekend Asia 2022

We had 103 Vintage players for Eternal Weekend Asia, and seven chose to play Doomsday. There were some unique choices.

Decklists

Takumi Sugiyama (10th)

Hiroki Ito (12th)

Hokuto Kanbara (14th)

tensaku (29th)

Alejandro Younger (46th)

SingPanMan (78th)

Eric Koziol (81st)

Core and Differences

Core

Creatures (2)
Thassa's Oracle

Sorceries (8)
Demonic Tutor
Doomsday
Gitaxian Probe
Ponder
Time Walk

Instants (15)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dark Ritual
Demonic Consultation
Dig Through Time
Force of Negation
Force of Will
Mental Misstep
Vampiric Tutor
Lands (13)
Fetch Lands
Island
Underground Sea

Artifacts (3)
Black Lotus
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire

Sideboard (4)
Leyline of the Void

Takumi Sugiyama EWA-10th Differences

Main (19)
Daze
Duress
Flusterstorm
Gush
Murktide Regent
Necropotence
Preordain
Street Wraith
Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
Fatal Push
Force of Negation
Island
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Hiroki Ito (12th) Differences

Main (19)
Flusterstorm
Gush
Inquisition of Kozilek
Mystical Tutor
Opposition Agent
Pact of Negation
Preordain
Street Wraith
Thoughtseize
Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
Dismember
Hydroblast
Island
Sailors' Bane
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Hokuto Kanbara (14th) Differences

Main (19)
Duress
Fetch Lands
Force of Negation
Imperial Seal
Mystic Sanctuary
Mystical Tutor
Necropotence
Sleight of Hand
Temporal Mastery
Thoughtseize
Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
Duress
Force of Negation
Gaea's Blessing
Hurkyl's Recall
Laboratory Maniac
Strip Mine
Thoughtseize
Wasteland

tensaku (29th) Differences

Main (19)
Daze
Flusterstorm
Gush
Murktide Regent
Mystical Dispute
Necropotence
Portent
Preordain
Street Wraith
Thoughtseize
Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Hydroblast
Island
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Alejandro Younger (46th) Differences

Main (19)
Daze
Duress
Fetch Lands
Flusterstorm
Gush
Mystical Tutor
Necropotence
Preordain
Street Wraith
Sideboard (11)
Energy Flux
Fatal Push
Force of Negation
Mindbreak Trap
Opposition Agent
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

SingPanMan (78th) Differences

Main (19)
Daze
Flusterstorm
Gush
Inquisition of Kozilek
Murktide Regent
Mystical Dispute
Necropotence
Preordain
Street Wraith
Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
Fatal Push
Island
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Eric Koziol (81st) Differences

Main (19)
Daze
Duress
Flusterstorm
Gush
Mystical Tutor
Opposition Agent
Preordain
Sleight of Hand
Street Wraith
Watery Grave
Sideboard (11)
Cut Down
Force of Negation
Island
Mindbreak Trap
Opposition Agent
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Steel Sabotage
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Tutors (5)
Imperial Seal
Mystical Tutor

Draw (65)
Gush
Necropotence
Portent
24 Preordain
Sleight of Hand
24 Street Wraith

Counters (32)
Daze
22 Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Mystical Dispute
Pact of Negation

Creatures (5)
Murktide Regent
Opposition Agent

Discard (15)
Duress
Inquisition of Kozilek
Thoughtseize

L⁣ands (10)
Fetch Lands
Mystic Sanctuary
Watery Grave

Other (1)
Temporal Mastery
Sideboard (0)

Artifacts (21)
Energy Flux
Hurkyl's Recall
16 Steel Sabotage

Discard (2)
Duress
Thoughtseize

Creatures (18)
Laboratory Maniac
Murktide Regent
10 Opposition Agent
Sailors' Bane
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (7)
Island
Strip Mine
Wasteland

Counters (11)
Force of Negation
Hydroblast
Mindbreak Trap

Removal (17)
Cut Down
Dismember
Fatal Push
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Other (1)
Gaea's Blessing

Thoughts

Main Core: 41 cards Side Core: 4 cards


Japan sure likes Watery Grave.
One interesting trend is three players cutting Mystical Tutor. The logic, as far as I can see, is that it doesn't find everything and not fast enough, so it can be a bit weak. I see some comments that excluding it was a mistake, as losing it slows the deck down. From my sleuthing the idea was to drop it for a main copy of Murktide Regent in order to have a maindeck way of dealing with those unfortunate situations where Doomsday isn't going to be the way to victory.
Hokuto Kanbara's list is a wild ride. It goes much lower on Cantrips and more in on Discard. I can't say I understand why Gush gets the cut, especially if you're playing a main Mystic Sanctuary. I don't entirely hate the Temporal Mastery, as this can help get around some of the anti-draw effects by acting like a second Time Walk. I do worry about the Blue count for Force of Will in this list, however.

We can all agree on Leyline of the Void.
We cannot agree on what kind of creatures to run in the side. Opposition Agent was pretty popular, but most everyone tried a little bit of something.
Hokuto, again, bucked the trend by putting in a copy of Laboratory Maniac. While being another win con, this also kind of answers Archive Trap. Sure, it has to be in play and they have to have no removal. But still. Without Street Wraith, however, it seems harder to pull off.
I'm a bit surprised by the low Mindbreak Trap numbers, and that I was the only one who chose to play Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Granted, you can't pitch her to Force of Will.
Strip Mine and Wasteland sure do answer Urza's Saga. They seem a bit clunky for the spells we want to cast, but I assume they are replacing dead cards in those matches, and I'm absolutely down to test that out.


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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
And thanks! I love you.