Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2021.05.09-10
- Eric
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- on May 15, 2021
Not only did Doomsday take the top spot of both challenges, and we're starting to see some experimentaiton in the sideboards in this new Witchy world.
Saturday Challenge
Sunday Challenge
League
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 (23) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 4 Dark Ritual 2 Daze 1 Demonic Consultation 1 Dig Through Time 3 Flusterstorm 1 Force of Negation 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 Sideboard (5) 1 Island 4 Steel Sabotage |
Diem4x (1st Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Opposition Agent |
zachattack23 (11th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 2 Opposition Agent |
discoverN (15th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
MaxMagicer (18th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang |
SuperCow12653 (19th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Peek 1 Thought Scour 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 3 Fatal Push 1 Flusterstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 2 Mindbreak Trap 2 Opposition Agent 1 Sedgemoor Witch |
discoverN (1st Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 2 Mindbreak Trap 1 Opposition Agent 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
sixmp (7th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Necropotence 1 Peek | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
SingPanMan (15th Place) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Necropotence 1 Treasure Cruise 1 Watery Grave | Sideboard (10) 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Drown in the Loch 3 Leyline of the Void 2 Opposition Agent 1 Planar Void 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
ZaeferMalkav (5-0) Differences
| Main (3) 1 Fetch Land 1 Necropotence 1 Portent | Sideboard (10) 1 Duress 2 Fatal Push 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Surgical Extraction 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Total Differences
| Main (0) Draw (18) 8 Necropotence 2 Peek 6 Portent 1 Thought Scour 1 Treasure Cruise Lands (9) 7 Fetch Lands 2 Watery Grave | Sideboard (0) Graveyard (33) 31 Leyline of the Void 1 Planar Void 1 Surgical Extraction Artifacts (1) 1 Hurkyl's Recall Discard (5) 5 Duress Creatures (13) 11 Opposition Agent 1 Sedgemoor Witch 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang Lands (3) 3 Library of Alexandria Counters (12) 1 Flusterstorm 11 Mindbreak Trap Removal (23) 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Drown in the Loch 15 Fatal Push 5 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale |
Thoughts
We have a 57-5 Core this week. One slot is SuperCow12653 and SingPanMan playing Watery Grave over a fetch. The other seems to be between Portent, Treasure Cruise and Peek. The interesting one is how SuperCow dropped Necropotence. I doubt Thought Scour is the right replacement, but I applaud trying it out.
The sideboards get wild this week. Everyone agreed on an extra Island and four Steel Sabotage, but that was it. Here's a breakdown.
SingPanMan playing Drown in the Loch stands out to me the most. I like this. A lot. It's more expensive than Fatal Push, and not "free" like Mindbreak Trap. But this card is versatile. (And it pitches to Force. Obvious? Yes, but it can be easy to miss the obvious. I know I did at first.) I gave the card a spin and liked it even more than at first glance.
SuperCow12653 played an interesting sideboard that eschewed graveyard hate. Instead there is a Hurkyl's Recall, a Sedgemoor Witch, the third Fatal Push and the fourth Flusterstorm. Not running Tabernacle also allowed for an extra Mindbreak Trap. discoverN is the only other player doubling up on the card.
I'm surprised Witch only showed up in SuperCow's list, but only a little. I wasn't too pleased with its performance in Doomsday. It does not work with our game plan. That said, it is powerful enough to do work.
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale is still at low numbers. This might be what spurred SuperCow's plan. Dredge already plays main-deck answers to Leyline of the Void, so why not go all in on winning? I like it, and would not mind dropping them myself. Too scared to, though.
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