Hi Guys I posted this on another local site, thought I would share here as well. Had a rough time with doomsday. Side boarding was horrible for me, need help there, not sure what to take out really.

Thats right DoomsDay Disasters, yes I know I am clever aren't I. 

Anyways I am the first to admit that I am at best an average player. I often make silly plays or stupid mistakes when playing which in turn tend to cost me the game. I am also a sucker for Combo decks in general, its just fun to say "Hey I win" from out of nowhere. I also enjoy the complexity that a combo deck brings to the table. My favorite type 1 deck for a while now was longdeath. It's super hard to play and damn fun, Doomsday just seemed like even more fun, and in my opinion this is certainly true. So I decided to build it, the other great thing about this deck is I only need a total of 5 to 6 proxies which is fine with me and all these 10 proxy events. I took it to Marc's Big B Type I proxy for the Bazaar on SAT. Congrats on the win again Dan.

I ended up 2-3 for the day which may not sound as horrible as it feels, but lets be honest; I went 0-3 before winning my last 2 pointless rounds. 1 from a concession from Goblins (probably a good matchup for me anyways) and another from a random Samurai deck? Which despite it being such I actually had 2 good opening hands.

My Details are a little sketchy but lets see what I can remember and what mistakes I can recall. Round 1 I was paired against Finch. Personally I was not happy with this at all. Not because I don't like Finch (just the opposite actually) but because I was hoping for an easy first round, unfortunitly for me it did not happen. Game 1 he keeps what I think we both agree on was an ok hand. Nothing super amazing but nothing to horrible either. Lots of land for him. I also ended up keeping an ok hand, again nothing amazing though my opening hand I feel was better then Finchs. I drew a total of 3 lands that game. He stripped one mid game and I didn't see the third until the very end when of course it didn't matter. Very early it wasn't looking to good for him but the wasteland easily put him over the top of my inability to draw land. And lets face it he's a better player then me anyways and I am sure there may have been plays I missed but am just not seeing. He did comment though that this was not a matchup he knew very well and so wasn't totally sure how to sideboard. To be honest I am not a grat side boarder to begin with and I also didn't know all the cards in his deck since he was playing OFM.

I sided as such: -4 Unmask, -2 Duress, + 4 Legacy's Allure, + 3 Back to Basics. I have no clue if this was a good call or not, I honestly don't know what to take out of DD in order to SB, any help here would be welcomed.

Game 2: I really should have Mulliganed this hand, but I had some solid Disruption and search cards I figured I would hit an extra land or two and I'd be fine. It didn't happen. I had 2 Mox's and 1 Island all game. Finch drop an turn 3? Null Rod and it was basicly game as I was unable to draw land. In hindsight I had in hand rebuild. So I beleive the right play here is when he announces Null Rod I should tap and float mana and then once it resovles I should then cast rebuild? I didn't even realize I had that play until after the match was over but look back I think that is the right play for me. I think he had a counter or daze or something for backup but it would have been better then doing nothing.

So I am 0-1 thus far in the day.

Match 2 VS. Denholm. Also a nice guy to play verse. I believe he was playing control slaver though I never seen the slaver as he killed me game 1 with Pentavus. I had a little trouble drawing lands again, not sure why really. And he had no trouble at all counter all my important spells (3 FOW's damn you  ) and was able to easily win game 1.

I sided as such -3 Unmasks, -2 Duress, +3 Energy Flux +2 Null Rod. Again I know I Sided wrong because I never really wanted to see E flux, he got an early welder down and it didn't make a damns worth of difference. The star here was Null Rod for me, it basicly shut him down for the most part. Again though I am horrible and wasn't able to capitalize correctly on this. I was able to resolve a Necropotence which I proceeded to draw 10 cards. I am now at 8 life, I then play a few other spells and I end up at 2, and can't seem to stack things well enough to win that turn due to null rod (I had both lotus petal and Black lotus in play but couldn't use them because of my own null rod) I did have in hand a rebuild which I would have cast but I didn't have enough to do everything and a combination of Mecropotence and Null rod hosed me in the end worse then him. I am sure I played this game all wrong. To top things off I was 1 turn from winning when he attacks for 1 with goblin welder and then time walks for the win  Even though my ability to suck is high today I play on hoping to gain some insight and experience with the deck.

Round Vs? I don't remember his name to be honest but he was playing a tendrils based deck which when around Academy rector and bargin. Both games he played rector on turn 2 or 3 and then cabal therapy for my only FOW's got his basrgin went down to 1 life and won. Plain and simple he out combo'd me both games. He seen his combo before I seen mine and won. Nothing really to learn here as the games were fast and I only got 1 or 2 turns each game, and both times he took what little nuisness I had in my hand. So the moral here is mullagin better I guess. I don't remeber what I sided in if anything, I am sure I did I just don't remember.

The last 2 rounds don't matter, I won once verse some random samurai deck where I had turn 2 doomsday both games, and got a concession from a goblin player who was tired and didn't want to play. All in all a bad day for me, but fun all the same. I think without my mistakes I could have easily turn at least one of those games into a win for me.

Here was my SB in case anyone cares or would like to help me SB for the future.
2 Null Rod
3 Defence Grid
3 E flux
3 Back to basic
1 Chain of vapor
3 Legacy's allure (cheaper then old man of the sea as I don't have any)

I played the standard deck list. Again great trounament, lots of fun can't wait for the 24th now.

Thanks to you both, I figured that might be the reason for rebuild over recall but wasn't sure. Also how do you know when it's best to cycle it? Example would I normally hold it in hand or do it right away.  tend to be a careful player and that is probably the wrong attitude to have with this deck.

I had a question for Stephen Menendian about side boarding with this deck. Your article covered a ton of ground most of which I am still going over. I did read the entire thing but it's a lot of info to process and will take some time to really grasp it all. In the mean time I was wondering your thoughts on what the new SB would look like and in general how to SB for different current matchups. ex, vs TPS, Slaver, Staxs, etc.

I also had a question about rebuild. Are you using it now because it also helps return your artifacts and so could help with a storm count? Otherwise I don't understand it as Hurkyl's recall is 1 cheaper. Your not planning on cycling it are you?

Thanks for answering me on these questions. The deck is very fun to play and noramlly is my combo deck of choice.