C · Positioning & Configuration · §20

Sideboard Philosophy

Stay a Baited Hook deck after boarding — hold the shuffled unit count at 26 or more.

Your original shuffled deck has 27 units. Remain at 26 or more, unless the matchup creates an unusually compelling reason to become more spell-heavy.

⚠ WarningThe common sideboard failure: add all the relevant-looking interaction → remove several medium units → reduce Hook consistency → draw Hook with too few legal or desirable hits → become a worse conventional control deck.

Each sideboard card should address a specific structural problem — see the matchup viewer’s memory aids for the full problem-to-card mapping.