That's one of my major beefs with this story. It's built on the premise that Doom is so tired of losing to Reed that he'll do anything to win. The idea that he'd give up on using technology and turn to magic (which is essentially like admitting he can't win using tech, which is just... no) is bad enough, but it ignores the fact that the last two times he'd met Reed before this (including saving Valeria) he'd essentially "beaten" Reed.