Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2025-11-02

Where has all the Doomsday gone?

Friday Challenge

revenantkioku

Saturday Challenge

blub_blub

Sunday Challenge

SingPanMan

Core and Differences

Main Core: 45 cards Side Core: 7 cards

Core

Main (0)

// CoreCombo (6)
Doomsday
Thassa's Oracle

// Counter (7)
Flusterstorm
Force of Will
Mental Misstep

// Draw (8)
Ancestral Recall
Brainstorm
Dig Through Time
Gitaxian Probe
Gush
Preordain
Time Walk
// LandsMana (21)
Black Lotus
Dark Ritual
Fetch Lands
Island
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire
Undercity Sewers
Underground Sea

// Tutor (3)
Demonic Consultation
Demonic Tutor
Vampiric Tutor

Sideboard (0)

// AntiArtifact (1)
Steel Sabotage

// AntiGraveyard (4)
Leyline of the Void

// Counter (1)
Mindbreak Trap

// Removal (1)
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

revenantkioku - 23rd Place Differences

Main (15)
Flusterstorm
Misdirection
Ponder
Psychic Frog
Thoughtseize
Treasure Cruise
Urza's Bauble
Vexing Bauble
Sideboard (8)
Consign to Memory
Force of Negation
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Snuff Out
Unable to Scream

blub_blub - 11th Place Differences

Main (15)
Chain of Vapor
Daze
Duress
Force of Negation
Necropotence
Ponder
Preordain
Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
Fatal Push
Flusterstorm
Murktide Regent
Steel Sabotage

SingPanMan - 5th Place Differences

Main (15)
Consider
Duress
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Necropotence
Preordain
Street Wraith
Sideboard (8)
Abhorrent Oculus
Null Rod
Snuff Out
Unable to Scream

Total Differences

Main (0)

// Counter (6)
Daze
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation
Misdirection

// Creature (4)
Psychic Frog

// Discard (4)
Duress
Thoughtseize

// Draw (29)
Consider
Necropotence
Ponder
Preordain
Street Wraith
Treasure Cruise
Urza's Bauble

// Other (1)
Vexing Bauble

// Removal (1)
Chain of Vapor
Sideboard (0)

// AntiArtifact (3)
Null Rod
Steel Sabotage

// Counter (3)
Consign to Memory
Flusterstorm
Force of Negation

// Creature (5)
Abhorrent Oculus
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Murktide Regent

// Removal (13)
Fatal Push
Snuff Out
Unable to Scream

Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 2.00
AntiGraveyard 0.00 4.00
CoreCombo 6.00 0.00
Counter 9.00 2.00
Creature 1.33 1.67
Discard 1.33 0.00
Draw 17.67 0.00
LandsMana 21.00 0.00
Removal 0.33 5.33
Tutor 3.00 0.00
Other 0.33 0.00
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 +0.80
Anti-Graveyard ±0 +0.20
Core Combo +0.40 ±0
Counter -1.20 ±0
Creature -1.47 -0.73
Discard +0.33 -0.20
Draw +1.87 ±0
Removal -0.27 -0.07
Tutor +0.60 ±0
Other -0.27 ±0

Thoughts

I need more practice with Lurrus Doomsday. Also, nothing fancy about Urza's Bauble. It's simply cheaper than Mishra's Bauble, and I didn't have the tix.
I have to try SingPanMan's list because I do not get the no-Ponder logic. I could ask, but, well, trying is part of learning, right?


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