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D · Matchups · §13

Matchups

Eight matchups with full sideboard plans, each one naming what to keep as well as what to bring.

Meta snapshot · August 2026. Dated starting configurations from the source guide, not live, not auto-updated, and not immutable plans.

vs LeBlanc Baited Hook

Your role · Their removal never targets youStay on Tempered.
21shuffled units after boarding✓ Stable
1416 floor22

Bring in

1×unit
2×unit
2×spell / gear

Take out

2×spell / gear
2×spell / gear
1×spell / gear

Qualifications

Their outlets kill their own units rather than yours, so untargetable bodies do far less here than the card text suggests. Boarding protection against a deck that never wanted to choose your units is slots spent on nothing.

Baited Hook is a Gear. kills one on play with no rune requirement; Barbara needs seven runes first, so count them before you rely on her.

takes a Mind card and LeBlanc is Order and Mind, so it always has something to take.

Preserve · Their scoring needs a body at a battlefield when the Beginning Phase resolves. Moving it is worth more than killing it and is the one answer they cannot convert into value.

Avoid · Boarding untargetable bodies in as protection

Sideboard philosophy in §12 · role assignment in §1.

Take it to the table

Every matchup on one sheet, in and out, printed as paper rather than as a screenshot of this page. The reminder lines can be turned off there, which is what decides whether a long matchup list runs to a second sheet.

Open the printable sideboard sheetFill in a registration sheet

Memory aids

Structural problem → the card that answers it. Each sideboard slot exists for a specific structural reason, not a general one.

Alone means no other friendly unit thereMaster Yi, Wuju Bladesman
Untargetable is not unkillable. Combat still worksRuin Runner
Chosen only while she is in combatAkali, Silent
Recall is not a move, so move triggers do not fireZhonya’s Hourglass
Deflect taxes the choice, it does not refuse itSteel Paws
Counters 4 Energy or less AND 1 Power or lessDefy
Pay the Power. The +2 lands before damageRampage
Needs 7 runes, or it is only a bodyTomb-Raider Barbara

From the guide . §13 Matchups

Each plan below names cards in, cards out, and one card to preserve with the reason. The preserved card is usually the one a player boards out by reflex because it looks narrow, and is the one the matchup actually turns on.