Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2023.04.02
- Eric
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- on Apr 04, 2023
Seven lists! What a drop! Less tournaments, but less than one-third of the lists this week.
Showcase Qualifier
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Preliminaries
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 (19) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 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 (3) 1 Fatal Push 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Tsubasa_Cat - 3rd Place Differences
| Main (6) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 3 Mishra’s Bauble | Sideboard (12) 1 Cut Down 1 Force of Negation 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Murktide Regent 3 Soul Rend |
sixmp - 3rd Place Differences
| Main (6) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 2 Mishra’s Bauble | Sideboard (12) 1 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl’s Recall 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Murktide Regent 2 Steel Sabotage 1 Subtlety |
sandydogmtg - 32nd Place Differences
| Main (6) 2 Daze 1 Fatal Push 1 Fetch Land 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Thoughtseize | Sideboard (12) 1 Cut Down 1 Duress 1 Force of Negation 1 Gaea’s Blessing 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Steel Sabotage |
Enrichetta - 1st Place Differences
| Main (6) 2 Daze 1 Dress Down 2 Force of Negation 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (12) 1 Cut Down 1 Dress Down 1 Energy Flux 1 Hurkyl’s Recall 1 Island 1 Pithing Needle 1 Snuff Out 1 Steel Sabotage 2 Surgical Extraction 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 1 Virtue’s Ruin |
sixmp - 15th Place Differences
| Main (6) 1 Duress 1 Fetch Land 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 2 Mishra’s Bauble | Sideboard (12) 1 Fatal Push 1 Hurkyl’s Recall 1 Island 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Murktide Regent 2 Steel Sabotage 1 Subtlety |
Terribad - 4-0 Differences
| Main (6) 2 Daze 1 Fatal Push 1 Fetch Land 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Thoughtseize | Sideboard (12) 1 Cut Down 1 Duress 1 Force of Negation 1 Gaea’s Blessing 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Steel Sabotage |
sandydogmtg - 3-1 Differences
| Main (6) 2 Daze 1 Fatal Push 1 Fetch Land 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Thoughtseize | Sideboard (12) 1 Cut Down 1 Duress 1 Force of Negation 1 Gaea’s Blessing 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Steel Sabotage |
Total Differences
| Draw (7) 7 Mishra’s Bauble Counters (15) 8 Daze 3 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Negation Creatures (3) 3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Discard (6) 3 Duress 3 Thoughtseize Removal (4) 1 Dress Down 3 Fatal Push Lands (7) 6 Fetch Lands 1 Watery Grave | Graveyard (27) 24 Leyline of the Void 1 Pithing Needle 2 Surgical Extraction Artifacts (15) 1 Energy Flux 3 Hurkyl’s Recall 11 Steel Sabotage Discard (3) 3 Duress Creatures (9) 6 Murktide Regent 3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Lands (3) 3 Island Counters (8) 4 Force of Negation 4 Mindbreak Trap Removal (16) 5 Cut Down 1 Dress Down 2 Fatal Push 1 Snuff Out 3 Soul Rend 2 Subtlety 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 1 Virtue’s Ruin Other (3) 3 Gaea’s Blessing |
Thoughts
Main Core: 54 cards Side Core: 3 cards
Main removal is starting to crop up more, and Thoughtseize is increasing as well. Daze increasing tells me that the format is going fast. But the best amount of Dazes to have is one less than your opponent thinks you have.
If you, like me, thought "Three copies of Soul Rend?!?", Tsubasa_Cat reasoned that there would be a large number of Initiative in the tournament, and this preparation would pay off. (Apparently the card was never drawn in the tournament. Alas.) Removal on is down this week, most people opting for creatures instead.
Esper Saga and Aggro Shops did do well this weekend. Shock. Doomsday was not played much, mind, but hey, my gut called it. Granted, Bazaar decks also did fairly well, and those can be quite the challenge for Doomsday, especially PitchVine.
Speaking of Bazaar, Enrichetta chose no Leylines, but also faced one deck sporting it. It is still wonderful to see lists trying to not play it. Leyline of the Void still feels like a crutch in a world of more Rootwallas than Ichorids.
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Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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