vs Kennen
Your role · Engine denialSwitch to Akali, Deadly Weapon.
16shuffled units after boarding✓ Stable
1216 floor20
16 shuffled units after boarding — at or above the 16-unit floor.
Bring in
2×Thermo Beamspell / gear
2×Against the Oddsspell / gear
Take out
2×Mask of Foresightspell / gear
2×Cleavespell / gear
Qualifications
Kennen’s current builds use many small units, Seal of Discord, and cards played from outside the hand.
Use Deadly Weapon to turn each move into removal, kill Seal before its value compounds, and punish multi-unit battlefield commitments with Against the Odds.
Preserve Defy for the spell that extends the turn rather than countering the first legal cantrip.
Avoid · Casting Thermo Beam without spending your own Hourglass first — it is symmetrical.
Full matchup treatment, postures and rules context in the guide’s matchup viewer.
Memory aids
Structural problem → the card that answers it. Each sideboard slot exists for a specific structural reason, not a general one.
Small, wide boardDeadly Weapon · Against the Odds
Gear engineThermo Beam
Targeted removalSilent · Not So Fast
Spell-protected defenderBrynhir Thundersong
Prolonged attritionFerrous Forerunner
One tall defenderCharm · Back Off · Silent tempo
Token battlefieldAgainst the Odds · Deadly Weapon