Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.02.08-14
- Eric
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- on Feb 18, 2021
This week was a healthy showing for Doomsday, and we also get to compare Clone09's deck list against last week's because otherwise the data becomes much more of a hassle to shift through. Let's think about this as me being kind to Clone09 and not me being lazy.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Preliminaries
League
Core and Differences
Core
| Creatures (5) 3 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (12) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Time Walk Instants (20) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 3 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor | Lands (13) 1 Island 4 Underground Sea 8 Fetch Lands Artifacts (3) 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Sapphire Enchantments (1) 1 Necropotence Sideboard (6) 2 Fatal Push 3 Steel Sabotage 1 Island |
thepowernine (4th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Dig Through Time 1 Treasure Cruise Counters (2) 1 Daze 1 Flusterstorm Lā£ands (1) 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (3) 3 Ravenous Trap Artifacts (3) 2 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Steel Sabotage Discard (2) 2 Duress Lands (1) 1 Library of Alexandria |
wambocombo2020 (6th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Dig Through Time 1 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise Counters (1) 1 Mystical Dispute Discard (1) 1 Duress Lā£ands (1) 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (4) 4 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (1) 1 Steel Sabotage Discard (1) 1 Duress Creatures (2) 1 Gurmag Angler 1 Opposition Agent Removal (1) 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Diem4x (15th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Dig Through Time 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith Counters (2) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Lā£ands (1) 1 Fetch Land | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (4) 4 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (1) 1 Steel Sabotage Creatures (2) 2 Opposition Agent Counters (1) 1 Mindbreak Trap Removal (1) 1 Eliminate |
wambocombo2020 (3rd Place) Differences
| Draw (4) 1 Cling to Dust 1 Dig Through Time 1 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise Counters (1) 1 Mystical Dispute Lā£ands (1) 1 Mystic Sanctuary | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (4) 4 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (1) 1 Steel Sabotage Discard (1) 1 Duress Creatures (2) 1 Gurmag Angler 1 Opposition Agent Removal (1) 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN (5th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Dig Through Time 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith Counters (2) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Lā£ands (1) 1 Fetch Land | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (4) 4 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (1) 1 Steel Sabotage Creatures (2) 1 Necropolis Fiend 1 Opposition Agent Lands (1) 1 Library of Alexandria Counters (1) 1 Mindbreak Trap |
geekyjackson (8th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Dig Through Time 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith Counters (2) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Lā£ands (1) 1 Fetch Land | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (4) 4 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (1) 1 Steel Sabotage Creatures (1) 1 Opposition Agent Lands (1) 1 Library of Alexandria Counters (1) 1 Mindbreak Trap Removal (1) 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
billster47 (19th Place) Differences
| Draw (3) 1 Dig Through Time 1 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise Counters (2) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Lā£ands (1) 1 Fetch Land | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (4) 4 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (1) 1 Hurkyl's Recall Lā£ands (1) 1 Library of Alexandria Counters (2) 2 Mindbreak Trap Removal (1) 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Matti (3-1) Differences
| Draw (1) 1 Street Wraith Counters (2) 1 Force of Negation 1 Mystical Dispute Discard (2) 2 Duress Lā£ands (1) 1 Fetch Land | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (4) 4 Leyline of the Void Artifacts (2) 1 Annul 1 Steel Sabotage Discard (1) 1 Duress Disruption (1) 1 Defense Grid Removal (1) 1 Fatal Push |
Total Differences
| Draw (23) 1 Cling to Dust 7 Dig Through Time 3 Portent 1 Sleight of Hand 7 Street Wraith 4 Treasure Cruise Counters (14) 1 Daze 5 Force of Negation 1 Flusterstorm 7 Mystical Dispute Discard (3) 3 Duress Lā£ands (8) 5 Fetch Lands 1 Mystic Sanctuary 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (31) 28 Leyline of the Void 3 Ravenous Trap Artifacts (11) 1 Annul 3 Hurkyl's Recall 7 Steel Sabotage Discard (5) 5 Duress Creatures (9) 2 Gurmag Angler 1 Necropolis Fiend 6 Opposition Agent Lands (4) 4 Library of Alexandria Counters (5) 5 Mindbreak Trap Disruption (1) 1 Defense Grid Removal (6) 1 Eliminate 1 Fatal Push 4 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
Not a single Chain of Vapor this week! Matti chose to forego Dig Through Time, instead dedicating slots to having two copies of Duress. While we saw a wider variety of draw cards this week, things got really interesting in the sideboards. Hurkyl's Recall has seen a slight resurgence, and I have a hard time arguing with perhaps playing a copy due to the amount of times Shops has barfed its hand out at me lately.
Spice Rack
I'm not sure how I feel about the single Defense Grid, but it is interesting to see it tried out. I asked wambocombo2020 how Mystic Sanctuary was and the answer was "pretty bad". What everyone has been talking about, however, is discoverN's use of Necropolis Fiend.
Last week I wrote about SingPanMan trying out Ethereal Forager for Bant. This seems good, but can we do better? While we might not have a graveyard beefy enough to use the ability, Necropolis Fiend blocks Hollow One as well as Archon of Emeria. What I find interesting is discoverN dropping The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale from the side.
I do like wambocombo2020's use of Gurmag Angler as it is beefier than Tasigur, the Golden Fang and is not hurt by stray copies of Karakas, but I think Flying is an important keyword right now. And if we eventually could get to the point where we are killing Thalia or an Archon with the Fiend, I think we can take on Bant well with this.
BUG Time
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Thanks, and good luck to everyone playing this weekend!