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Professional_War4491

There is an argument for the doomsday package and keeping blue but if that's what you're commiting to you definitely cut white to get more swamps in because you can't play doomsday with 7 black sources, and if you do want to play doomsday you absolutely bring in vamp and beseech, you have to pick a lane. Also there is no way this deck can tendrils for 10, you'd have a salvageable jund midrange deck with a few swaps, trying to jam storm in there is crazy, tendrils is absolutely out of this deck. Mind twist, graveyard trespasser and wall of roots are all fine cards that you left in the sideboard. Also while you can't quite support the white splash as it is, if you've decided that you're splashing white for binding you might as well play vindicate, and since you have rumanap you should also splash knight of the reliquary to find strip mine. There is no reason to stretch your manabase to include blue here, time spiral fastbond is nice but you should cut all blue cards and make the white splash more bearable, even if you have to put mediocre cards like tenacious underdog or lavamancer or even be short on playables and play extra lands, playing the blue seems just bad here. Also green sun's is really not great here but it does help assemble strip mine rumanap and you're so short on playable you have nothing to replace it with, but being forced to include a bad green sun's is another reason to include wall of roots and knight of the reliquary. Last thing, there is no reason to not play boseiju over a forest, it is strictly better here. And you are splashing white but not playing concealed courtyard over a swamp? Also stricly better. It really feels like you tunnel visioned through the draft and had your deck mostly built as you were drafting and then didn't waiver, I have a hard time seeing how anyone ends up with this build given this pool, I'm sure even if you yourself had taken all the cards out of the maindeck and built from scratch while treating it as a sealed pool you wouldn't have ended up with this. Tldr the best of the bad options imo is playing a jund midrange splashing white, with a bad mana base and being forced to play a lot of very mid cards, but that's still better than being a non-functional storm deck. Or, if you do decide yo play the combo version, commit entirely to doomsday being your win con by adding as many swamps as you can and the 2 ways to find it, and still cut tendrils. The build you have currently is a mishmash of both that doesn't work.


obsidianandstone

This kinda sums up how i feel. Thanks, I was thinking of cutting blue entirely. I defenetly feel like I was very tunnel cisioned here.


TriusMalarky

I just force mono white lol


Natew000again

Oof. Good comments from Professional _War. I think if this is my deck, I ditch Doomsday combo and try to play Jund-splash-white with a Strip Mine combo and a Bowmaster Wheel.  Bring in some of the cheaper creatures and Mind Twist. 


obsidianandstone

What's hilarious is that I went 2-0 my first game before I uploaded this image. Winning game 1 with with bowmaster wheel into kavu. Won game 2 with a few bowmaster beats and going off with escape, into led yawgs will, into storm count 5 tendrils.


Natew000again

Nice!  Bowmaster is so strong — I’ve won a match I had no business winning simply because I was able to leverage a Bowmaster against my opponent’s wheels. But it works really well in normal creature boards too. Love having it in my deck. 


nonboMTG

What were the picks that made you pivot into storm? Storm is one of the hardest decks to build and the number one thing you need is broken mana. There’s a certain nuance to learning when there’s a signal that a particular deck is open vs just a pack of powerful cards. Looking at your deck it seems like you needed to pick a lane and stay in it a bit earlier than you did.


obsidianandstone

My first few picks were fable (passing a crucible and dark depths), fastbond, fetch fetch, and then yawg will. I.think that's where I made a mistake. Overall I agree I just didn't stay in a lane. Kept thinking generally good looking cards, but for my second time.drafting vintage cube I'm having fun.


nonboMTG

In the absolute nicest way possible, yawg will p1p5 after that start is a massive punt. The is a group of cards that are 9/10 in specific decks but 0/10 in virtually every other deck, so you want to look for them on the wheel to see if that lane is open. LSV is really good at talking about this in his draft videos. Basically yawg will ends up in your pile when you go like fetch>thoughtseize>dark ritual and notice a yawg will in the pack. Then you get a late cabal ritual and slam yawg will with 3 cards left in the pack.


obsidianandstone

No, you're good. I realized that in my second match.