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Ever since we started this series, we’ve received one topic request over and over and over again: Sideboarding. Well, we’re finally going to be discussing it in today’s episode of Tolarian Tutor, and hopefully start answering all of those questions you’ve been sending us.
We’ll go into what a sideboard is, what it can do for you, what to put in it and when to use it. We’ll cover some common mistakes players make when sideboarding, and ways you can level up your sideboarding skills in both limited and constructed formats.
This isn’t a beginning lesson in Magic: The Gathering, and this isn’t an advanced pro guide. This is for players who already know how to play, play regularly, and want to get better. This is Tolarian Tutor!
We generally know that sideboards are cards that you can “sub in” to your main deck after the first game of a round, and are meant to help you better answer your opponent’s deck based on what you’ve seen so far. Sideboards are often treated as the “B-Team”, the cards you bring in when your “A-Team” just isn’t quite getting there, our second string as it were.
However, a much more productive way of thinking about Sideboarding is using “The Elephant Method”, first introduced by Magic veteran Zuh-vee Mow–show–itz. To paraphrase, Zuh-vee advocates looking at your deck not as your “main board” versus your “sideboard”, but as a whole.