Vintage Doomsday Deck List Analysis for 2026-04-12

♪Where have all the Doomers gone?♪

Friday Challenge

RATHERBPLAYINGMTG (6TH PLACE)

Sunday Challenge

SINGPANMAN (8TH PLACE)

Core and Differences

Main Core: 60 cards Side Core: 14 cards

Core

// CoreCombo (6)
4 Doomsday
2 Thassa’s Oracle

// Counter (9)
3 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
1 Mental Misstep

// Discard (1)
1 Duress

// Draw (19)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Consider
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
1 Necropotence
4 Ponder
4 Street Wraith
1 Time Walk
// LandsMana (21)
1 Black Lotus
4 Dark Ritual
8 Fetch Lands
1 Island
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Undercity Sewers
4 Underground Sea

// Removal (1)
1 Unable to Scream

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

// AntiArtifact (3)
2 Null Rod
1 Steel Sabotage

// AntiGraveyard (4)
4 Leyline of the Void

// Counter (1)
1 Mindbreak Trap

// Creature (2)
2 Abhorrent Oculus

// Removal (4)
1 Long Goodbye
1 Snuff Out
2 Unable to Scream

RatherBplayingMTG - 6th Place Differences

Sideboard (1)
1 Consign to Memory

SingPanMan - 8th Place Differences

Sideboard (1)
1 Mindbreak Trap

Total Differences

// Counter (2)
1 Consign to Memory
1 Mindbreak Trap

Type Main Avg Side Avg
AntiArtifact 0.00 3.00
AntiGraveyard 0.00 4.00
CoreCombo 6.00 0.00
Counter 9.00 2.00
Creature 0.00 2.00
Discard 1.00 0.00
Draw 19.00 0.00
LandsMana 21.00 0.00
Removal 1.00 4.00
Tutor 3.00 0.00
Type Main Difference Side Difference
Anti-Artifact ±0 +1.00
Anti-Graveyard ±0 -0.50
Counter -0.25 -1.00
Creature -2.00 +0.50
Discard +0.50 -0.25
Draw +2.00 ±0
Lands/Mana -0.25 ±0
Removal ±0 +0.25

Thoughts

Not too much to say. Doomsday could use a little bump from a new card, eh? I don’t know exactly what kind of card could be printed by Wizards today, because Doomsday is a spell-deck and we are in the creature-era of Magic.


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Remember: Always Be Casting Doomsday.
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