Meta snapshot · August 2026. Dated starting configurations from the source guide, not live, not auto-updated, and not immutable plans.
vs Cad Bane
Your role · The most converting leader in the sampleStay on Fortress of the Great Mothers.
42shuffled units after boarding✓ Stable
3438 floor46
42 shuffled units after boarding · at or above the floor of 38.
＋ Bring in
2×spell / gear
1×unit
− Take out
2×spell / gear
1×spell / gear
Qualifications
Cad Bane appears in 30.4% of the sampled top eights, nearly a third, so this is the matchup the list is configured for before any other.
You are the slower deck and you should be. Your base is 30 HP and every death buys 2 of it back, which is a real clock extension against a deck built to end games early.
defeats any unit costing 3 or less outright, and strips abilities from anything bigger for the phase. Against a curve of cheap aggressive bodies it is the cleanest four-cost answer in the board.
Preserve · · · Keep every Sentinel body. Enemy units in an arena must attack a Sentinel, so a 4/3 with a Shield is not a blocker, it is a redirect.
Avoid · Do not eat your Sentinel units for Credits. The leader ability is not free here: the resource costs you the tax on their attack.
Avoid · Do not board out on the assumption they are a ground deck. Check what their list showed in game one before deciding.
Sideboard philosophy in §13 · role assignment in §5.
Memory aids
How often each card appears across the 25 sampled Director Krennic lists. Twenty-five lists is one archetype at one moment, not the format.
100%→Ant Droid, Expendable Mercenary, Pre Vizsla, Chimaera, No Glory
96%→Krennic, On the Verge of Greatness · Craving Power
92%→Imperial Armored Commando
88%→Trask Walker
68%→Resupply Carrier, which this list does not play