Matchup & Sideboard Viewer
Matchup & Sideboard Viewer
Meta snapshot · August 2026. Dated starting configurations from the source guide, not live, not auto-updated, and not immutable plans.
vs Kennen
Your role · Outside-hand engine, 9% of the fieldStay on Lillia, Fae Fawn.
9shuffled units after boarding✓ Stable
47 floor12
9 shuffled units after boarding · at or above the floor of 7.
They convert cards from outside their hand into board, so a race is usually better than a grind: your Sprites cost less than their engine does.
Conquer early and often. Every turn the game goes long is a turn their card advantage matters and your Temporary units do not.
Hold for the spell that rebuilds their board rather than the first one they cast.
Preserve · · Keep the permanent bodies. In a long game they are the only units you have that are still there on the turn a hold would score.
Avoid · Do not spend on a body they can replace. It is your only real removal and it is worth their best unit, not their cheapest.
Sideboard philosophy in §12 · role assignment in §5.
Memory aids
Structural problem → the card that answers it. Each sideboard slot exists for a specific structural reason, not a general one.
56.1%→Defy, which counters a spell costing no more than 4, so not Sprite Burst
51.2%→Charm, which moves your conqueror off the point
48.8%→Star-Crossed, which returns a Sprite to hand, where it stops existing
44.3%→Zhonya’s Hourglass, which redirects a death you were counting on
20.7%→Gust, which deletes any unit at 3 Might or less, which is every Sprite you make
20%→Abandon, the counter with no cost cap, in more sampled lists than Defy
3 Might→Every Sprite, every time. The number the field’s cheap damage is priced at