So it's now the post Khans of Tarkir era, with Treasure Cruise pushing tons of delver decks into the top slots. The eternal weekend legacy's t8 was flooded with all variations of delvers.
It had 1 Maverick with Punishing fires (which eats delvers), 1 Tezz deck (with its maindeck leyline of the void) and 6 assorted delver decks.
It has been awhile since I have gone out to play Legacy and I brought my Doomsday fitted with 2x Dig through time and 1x Treasure Cruise in the SB. I lost againt BUG Delver (after I tried to go off against a Force of Will and getting stuck on one Swamp) and 2 Miracles decks.
With blue being more prominent, the storm side of the Doomsday deck is much weaker than it was. While my hands were rather bad all night, the problem was more fundamental than that.
I do not foresee that this overly complicated deck has the staying power to bash through the format as it is now.
The new challenge now is how to get through a format where people can play 4x Ancestral Recall.
I'm not sure where to start but I think I could try Sudden Shock, Pyroclasm etc.
I guess I should try to design a Delver killer, then move to finding the means to beating the other matchups. True-Name Nemesis overly complicates this effort but perhaps that would be the way to go... The Tezz deck does this very well with Chalices, Baleful Strix, Thopter-swords combo etc.
I don't think I have the core cards for that deck irl but maybe I can test it online to find a new direction to go towards. It has become a notch more difficult to deal with decks if they can simply refuel with Treasure Cruises.
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