Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2025-08-03

Where has the Cat gone? There’s a Cruel Captain instead.

Thursday Challenge

RatherBplayingMTG

_SickDraw

Friday Challenge

sixmp

revenantkioku

Saturday Challenge

_SickDraw

Sunday Challenge

discoverN

SingPanMan

_SickDraw

MagerMistake

Wyjx

League

214

Core and Differences

Main Core: 41 cards Side Core: 7 cards

Core

Core-Combo (6)
4 Doomsday
2 Thassa’s Oracle

Counter (6)
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will

Draw (6)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
1 Time Walk

L⁣ands/Mana (21)
1 Black Lotus
4 Dark Ritual
8 Fetch Lands
1 Island
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Undercity Sewers
4 Underground Sea

Tutor (2)
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
Sideboard (7)
2 Fatal Push
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Mindbreak Trap

RatherBplayingMTG - 22nd Place Differences

Main (19)
4 Consider
1 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
1 Necropotence
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
2 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Murktide Regent
1 Null Rod
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

_SickDraw - 30th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Consider
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Murktide Regent
2 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out

sixmp - 3rd Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
1 Necropotence
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
1 Fatal Push
2 Murktide Regent
1 Null Rod
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

revenantkioku - 22nd Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Consider
1 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
Sideboard (8)
2 Consign to Memory
1 Fatal Push
2 Null Rod
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Snuff Out
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

_SickDraw - 17th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Consider
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Murktide Regent
2 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out

discoverN - 4th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
2 Abhorrent Oculus
1 Force of Negation
1 Snuff Out
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

SingPanMan - 10th Place Differences

Main (19)
4 Consider
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
2 Abhorrent Oculus
1 Fatal Push
1 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

_SickDraw - 12th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Consider
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
1 Fatal Push
1 Force of Negation
2 Murktide Regent
2 Null Rod
2 Snuff Out

MagerMistake - 15th Place Differences

Main (19)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Daze
1 Duress
1 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
1 Necropotence
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 Street Wraith
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (6)
1 Fatal Push
1 Null Rod
3 Steel Sabotage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Wyjx - 19th Place Differences

Main (19)
2 Daze
1 Duress
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Mishra’s Bauble
1 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Ponder
2 Psychic Frog
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Vexing Bauble
Sideboard (8)
1 Consign to Memory
1 Dismember
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
1 Snuff Out
1 Steel Sabotage
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Yixlid Jailer

214 - 5-0 Differences

Main (19)
4 Consider
1 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
1 Mental Misstep
1 Necropotence
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard (8)
2 Force of Negation
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Murktide Regent
1 Null Rod
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Total Differences

L⁣ands/Mana (1)
1 Library of Alexandria

Counters (39)
6 Daze
8 Flusterstorm
12 Force of Negation
10 Mental Misstep
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection

Draw (139)
28 Consider
2 Mishra’s Bauble
4 Necropotence
40 Ponder
16 Preordain
40 Street Wraith
9 Treasure Cruise

Discard (10)
4 Duress
6 Thoughtseize

Creatures (2)
2 Psychic Frog

Removal (6)
6 Chain of Vapor

Tutors (10)
10 Vampiric Tutor

Anti-Graveyard (1)
1 Nihil Spellbomb

Other (1)
1 Vexing Bauble
Anti-Graveyard (1)
1 Yixlid Jailer

Anti-Artifacts (24)
13 Null Rod
11 Steel Sabotage

Creatures (20)
4 Abhorrent Oculus
1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
14 Murktide Regent
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Counters (13)
3 Consign to Memory
8 Force of Negation
2 Mindbreak Trap

Removal (28)
1 Dismember
7 Fatal Push
11 Snuff Out
9 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 2.18
AntiGraveyard 0.09 4.09
CoreCombo 6.00 0.00
Counter 9.55 2.18
Creature 0.18 1.82
Discard 0.91 0.00
Draw 18.64 0.00
LandsMana 21.09 0.00
Other 0.09 0.00
Removal 0.55 4.55
Tutor 2.91 0.00
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 -0.57
Anti-Graveyard +0.09 +0.09
Core Combo +0.17 ±0
Counter -0.45 +0.18
Creature -0.57 -0.02
Discard +0.08 ±0
Draw +0.05 ±0
Lands/Mana +0.09 ±0
Removal +0.21 +0.13
Tutor +0.24 ±0
Other +0.09 ±0

Thoughts

With the release of Tezzeret, Cruel Captain, the meta is going to shift for a while, and we’ll see a bit of interesting changes. Doomsday got nothing out of EoE, so we’re likely going to see an increase in Consign to Memory, which will be bad overall for Doomsday, is my ultimate guess. People are saying that the versions without Blue spells aren’t bad for this deck, but I’ve always had trouble with Shops and other kinda of decks that have that high number of colorless spells. It’s probably my fault. I think there might be a desire to increase the copies of Mindbreak Trap, but it tends to be an awful card versus non-PO decks.


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