Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.04.01-05
- Eric
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- on Apr 09, 2021
A huge congratulations to discoverN for winning the Super Qualifier. Me? I was off to a three-one start and then accidentally fell asleep before round five. I bring this up because while I do not know discoverN's life, I do know that playing in a 11pm Sunday night tournament to Monday morning is a heck of a thing. Winning that tournament is a whole other story.
Lots of lists this week to go through.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
Super Qualifier
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 (22) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 3 Flusterstorm 4 Force of Will 1 Gush 1 Mental Misstep 1 Mystical Dispute 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 (9) 1 Island 3 Leyline of the Void 1 Opposition Agent 4 Steel Sabotage |
geekyjackson (17th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith | Sideboard (6) 2 Fatal Push 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Diem4x (18th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith | Sideboard (6) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang |
MaxMagicer (19th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith | Sideboard (6) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang |
SingPanMan (11th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Cling to Dust 1 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (6) 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Fatal Push 1 Opposition Agent 1 Planar Void 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
discoverN (1st Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith | Sideboard (6) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mindbreak Trap |
GoldenStateWarriors (20th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith | Sideboard (6) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang |
BluStalker (22nd Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Street Wraith 1 Thoughtseize 1 Treasure Cruise | Sideboard (6) 1 Archive Trap 1 Eliminate 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SingPanMan (29th Place) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Force of Negation 1 Street Wraith 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (6) 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Fatal Push 1 Opposition Agent 1 Relic of Progenitus 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
geekyjackson (5-0) Differences
| Main (4) 1 Fetch Land 1 Force of Negation 1 Portent 1 Street Wraith | Sideboard (6) 2 Fatal Push 1 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Draw (17) 1 Cling to Dust 6 Portent 8 Street Wraith 2 Treasure Cruise Counters (9) 1 Flusterstorm 8 Force of Negation Discard (1) 1 Thoughtseize Lands (9) 7 Fetch Lands 2 Watery Grave | Graveyard (9) 7 Leyline of the Void 1 Planar Void 1 Relic of Progenitus Discard (4) 4 Duress Creatures (5) 2 Opposition Agent 3 Tasigur, the Golden Fang Bounce (2) 2 Chain of Vapor Lands (4) 4 Library of Alexandria Counters (7) 7 Mindbreak Trap Removal (22) 1 Eliminate 16 Fatal Push 5 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Mirror (1) 1 Archive Trap |
Thoughts
I took both of ecobaronen's lists as well as lampalot's out of the data crunching because we have something fairly interesting going on there. And all three decks are the same list. But let's look at the ""standard"" Doomsday lists first.
We have a 54/9 core this week with SingPanMan still being on Watery Grave, meaning it mostly comes down to the three slots. Mostly everyone was on two Draw and a Counter, with one of SingPanMan's lists going for two counters and one draw and BluStalker choosing to play Discard instead of a Counter. Treasure Cruise is slightly more represented this week, but Portent is going strong. We might as well count it as a 55/9, though, as only one of SingPanMan's lists ran three Street Wraith. Everyone else ran four.
For the sideboards, Opposition Agent is not only in every list, but SingPanMan is running two. BluStalker played an Archive Trap for the mirror, but when I reached out to them, I was told they never had a chance to use it. SingPanMan continues to test cards as Relic of Progenitus shows up, as well as their usual Planar Void.
Now let's look at this transformational Doomsday piloted by ecobaronen and lampalot.
Doomsday's Shadow
| Creatures (6) 4 Street Wraith 2 Thassa's Oracle Sorceries (17) 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Doomsday 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 4 Preordain 4 Thoughtseize 1 Time Walk 1 Treasure Cruise Instants (20) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 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 (14) 2 Flooded Strand 1 Island 2 Misty Rainforest 2 Polluted Delta 2 Scalding Tarn 2 Underground Sea 3 Watery Grave Artifacts (3) 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Sapphire Sideboard (15) 1 Island 2 Flusterstorm 4 Death's Shadow 2 Fatal Push 2 Hurkyl's Recall 4 Steel Sabotage |
The main looks fairly normal until we get to the mana-base. Three copies of Watery Grave likely explains why Necropotence is missing from this list. Instead of Leyline of the Void, however, we see four copies of Death's Shadow. The two copies of Hurkyl's Recall seem to imply that Dredge is intended to be beat with either the standard Doomsday pile or Death's Shadow. From that sentence you can tell that I have no idea what the plan is. Still, like the BUG Doomsday we saw a few weeks back, it will be interesting to see if this continues to see play or is just another test that happened to have some good results.
Best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!
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