D · Matchups · §14
The ten most converting leaders across thirty qualifying events, with plans for each.
42 shuffled units after boarding · at or above the floor of 38.
Bring in
Take out
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.
How often each card appears across the 25 sampled Director Krennic lists. Twenty-five lists is one archetype at one moment, not the format.
From the guide . §14 Current Matchup Map
Ordering is by top-eight appearances across the thirty sampled events, as published by the source. That is a conversion measure, not field share: it counts how often a leader reached a top eight, not how many people registered it.