Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.01.15

Ah, we got some good stuff going on this week. Congrats to Enrichetta for taking down the Showcase Challenge!

Saturday Challenge

Enrichetta - 1st Place

discoverN - 13th Place

Sunday Challenge

sixmp - 6th Place

discoverN - 11th Place

_INF_ - 17th Place

League

taniguchi - 5-0

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 (18)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Dig Through Time
2 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 (1)
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Enrichetta - 1st Place Differences

Main (7)
2 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
1 Thought Scour
1 Watery Grave
Sideboard (14)
1 Energy Flux
2 Fatal Push
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Island
1 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Virtue's Ruin

discoverN - 13th Place Differences

Main (7)
1 Fetch Land
1 Flusterstorm
4 Mishra's Bauble
1 Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (14)
1 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Snuff Out
3 Subtlety

sixmp - 6th Place Differences

Main (7)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
2 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (14)
1 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
1 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
2 Steel Sabotage

discoverN - 11th Place Differences

Main (7)
1 Fetch Land
2 Flusterstorm
4 Mishra's Bauble
Sideboard (14)
1 Cut Down
1 Force of Negation
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Snuff Out
3 Subtlety

_INF_ - 17th Place Differences

Main (7)
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Fetch Land
2 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Sleight of Hand
Sideboard (14)
2 Cut Down
1 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Murktide Regent
1 Opposition Agent
2 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

taniguchi - 5-0 Differences

Main (7)
1 Daze
1 Disrupt
1 Duress
2 Fetch Lands
1 Murktide Regent
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
Sideboard (14)
1 Cut Down
3 Duress
1 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Steel Sabotage
2 Suspend
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

Draw (12)
8 Mishra's Bauble
2 Sleight of Hand
1 Thought Scour
1 Treasure Cruise

Counters (18)
5 Daze
1 Disrupt
8 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Negation

Creatures (1)
1 Murktide Regent

Discard (3)
3 Duress

L⁣ands (7)
6 Fetch Lands
1 Watery Grave

Other (1)
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
Sideboard (0)

Graveyard (22)
20 Leyline of the Void
2 Surgical Extraction

Artifacts (11)
1 Energy Flux
2 Hurkyl's Recall
8 Steel Sabotage

Discard (3)
3 Duress

Creatures (8)
3 Murktide Regent
3 Opposition Agent
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Lands (1)
1 Island

Counters (9)
3 Force of Negation
6 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (29)
6 Cut Down
4 Fatal Push
8 Snuff Out
6 Subtlety
2 Suspend
1 Virtue's Ruin
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Other (1)
1 Gaea's Blessing

Thoughts

Main Core: 53 cards Side Core: 1 cards


Taniguchi has an interesting list this week. Who doen't like Disrupt? I'm not sure when Narset, Parter of Veils is great for Doomsday. Granted we do have plenty of things to look for. But sorcery speed 3 mana is a lot. And we'd like to be casting Doomsday most of the time. There's a reason we play Necropotence.


Enrichetta dropped Leyline of the Void, which seems right in this meta. discoverN is on zero pieces of specific artifact hate, which Force of Negation along with Force of Will does most of the necessary work. So leaning into cards like Subtlety and Snuff Out that answer the big format problems for zero mana. As more decks change to beat Initiative, we have to make sure not to build ourselves into a corner that is incapable of dealing with those decks.

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