Tolarian Tutor: Sideboarding - A Magic: The Gathering Study Guide
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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.
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Tolarian Community College could you do a Tolarian Tutor on toolbox decks and other little known deck archetypes?
Oogli Moogli he already did that
Tolarian Community College we could have a video about "value"
Chopp D. That would be a good idea, but what do you suggest he say about “value”
Man That Games well, I find the value concept a bit subjective, so it could be clarified. Moreover, we could use the term as a tool to explain why some cards, card types and deck builds are so strong.
I've been playing magic for 10 years and i still learned something from this. Thank you.
I'd love to see a good explanation of the stack priority, particularly as it relates to decks like Storm that can be difficult to disrupt if you don't understand how effects trigger.
If you're having trouble against Storm, just side in Mindbreak Traps. Wait for their storm count to get above 4, boom, insta exile of all their spells for free.
I love you man, i live in a very small town (in Wyoming) and nobody here plays magic, most people haven't even heard of it. I have taught a few people to play but no one is really interested in it. I love watching your videos and its great to know that there is other people like me somewhere. thank you, keep up the good work.
Nice, comprehensive video. The transformational sideboarding is a fun trick when the opponent isn’t expecting it!
aye I play ur storm and ill sideboard nivix cyclops and go straight agro they never see it coming
Great video. Were is the suit.
I play control and I change all my 15 counters for 15 aggro uw flying crearures its so fun to see their faces
Sorry I'm an hour late sir!
Oh wait...
It's an online class...
never has this been more relevant
Especially with wave 2 of the pandemic coming soon, or so I've been told.
Over in America, we never really ended wave 1.
This is weird to read now
One of the things i have the most trouble with, thanks professor.
Maybe a segment on Winston Drafting? How it’s strategy differs from a regular draft?
Thank you for making this video!!! I have been confused sideboards that I have stayed away from it. I love this series
STOP STALKING ME!!! youve literally had the last few videos on the EXACT topic I needed. There is a pptq in my home town, and I really wanted these topics, thank you so much for being an amazing person! (Also I met someone the other day who knows you, that was pretty cool)
He's not stalking you. He has psychic powers. Totally different.
I am new to this all. I just got my first deck and am binge watching all of your vids. They help me so much to get a better understaning of the game and just wanted to thank you for this.
SUGGESTION: “Tolarian Tutor: how to calculate the Land/Spells ratio”
AltosForteAqua x It’s not always straightforward for an app to do the math; you gotta put the moxen on spell spots (otherwise you won’t get much advantage there), and there’s always the artifacts like Sol Ring and the Signets. Also, some Lands are pretty tricky to balance, like Dimir Aqueduct. It’s not like there’s a fixed formula. That’s why I’m asking for some help.
he does mana building episodes all the time. and the second episode of this series is for that lol
16 lands - 24 spells for draft or sealed. 15 creatures give or take.
I run 19 in my Blitz-style decks, but I'd run 24 in a control deck. Card costs inform this decision.
What of my favorite things about brewing decks is figuring out what will go in the sideboard and what I will take out of the mainboard.
Would love to see some videos on playing with 3 or more colours. Thanks!
My parents taught me to play magic using Onslaught / Scourge precons when I was 8. I'm nearing 30 now and I've been playing mid to high tier commander for years. I have like 50 commander decks that cover every color combo and playstyle because I just love the game that much.
And my dumb ass had NEVER utilized the sideboard until now. Thanks man.
Happy 300k
Thank you! I finally understand what the sideboard is. Truly a great explanation.
Really cool series ! Keep going!
You forgot the eldrazi wish, “Coax from the Blind Eternities”
Anyways, nice video!!! I love your channel!
The vaule of knowing your meta could be a great class . Limited usually have several archetypes and constucted standard almost always has a public enemy number one where as older formats tend to be more open. A class on how to approach each and reseach tools would be helpful.
I'd like to see a video on passing priority. Good video as well.
Extremely useful video Professor, keep em coming :)
Hey prof, congratulations on your 300k subs!! Time to make a new Q&A
A deck building series would be nice so people can learn to brew decks and think up new things to bring into their meta.
Keep the Tolarian Tutor series episodes coming. I think they are great!
Great addition to the list of courses! Ideas for the future - Deckbuilding going wide vs. narrow, mechanics that pair well together, lore and artwork. Keep up the good work Prof.
Really helpful prof. I knew most of this, but never knew about transformational sideboards. Keep up the good work!
You are my savior...thanks for making this video. I have been having a hard time building sideboards
The fact that this video is 15 min and 51 sec long makes me very happy.
I feel this TT covered 90% of the sideboarding questions, what i particularly missed was a section on 'How to build sideboards' in regards to the Meta. Aka. touching on 'in general' the various strategies (agro, midrange, control, combo) and how they 'generally' match up against each other, and thus how the sideboard offers answer to those strategies ... while it was in there 'sort of behind all the words', i think actually mentioning these strategies and what they are strong and weak against, can help (esp. starting players) to figure out what to consider most when sideboarding. This would then lead to a section on 'the meta', and specific decks in said meta and sideboarding against those (which are of a fore mentioned strategy most of the time, but may have key pieces in the deck that are vulnerable to cards in your colors), so the 'Study the Meta' can use a bit more emphasis ... So, a 'Sideboard Level Up' where we go one step deeper into strategies and sideboarding would be my suggestion for an episode ...
When it comes to 'transformational' sideboarding, i also think you'd have to devote some special attention to any deck that plays Blue, be it say 'Blue/Red agro' or 'Blue/Red spells', or some other combination with blue. Because these decks actually offer a duality in their playstyle that lends itself for a transitional sideboard plan. Mainly, from the non-blue strategy focus, towards a control focus... Personally i have used this strategy in a Blue/Red 'agro/spells' deck to great success, going from 'burn spells' to 'counter spells' to counter control and removal heavy decks and be able to protect my key pieces. While one is only ever able to 'transform' in a 'control light' strategy it is very powerful.
Other than those topics, this Tutor felt pretty complete and a good starting point for sideboard considerations.
Huzah! I'm glad that you covered transformational sideboarding. I asked for that in a tweet reply asking for ideas.
This is the episode ive been waiting for! Sideboarding is something ive had such a difficult problem with haha i believe thats what motivated me to play more edh.
Im building a legacy deck right and have been looking for help. Thanks man
Gratz Prof on 300k subs! Keep rocking it and soon u will surpass mtg 's official youtube channel sub count (318k now) soon :) I believe that u mentioned this as your next goal during a q&a and i really really want u to achieve this :D
Now about video request i would like to see one where u talk about bluffing in magic. How i can bluff that i have counter/removal and how i can tell if my opponent has or doesn't have counter/removal etc. Obviously the answer is dependant upon many many factors so i don't know if it can be answered properly.
I started playing commander just to get away from the sideboard because I can't figure them out. This was a really helpful video for me!!
As a new player, this was overwhelming xD
Janda125 as said in the beginning it's not meant for new players.
Sideboards are tricky. I suggest either not playing with one at the start - OR a basic sideboard of maybe 5-10 cards to start with.
^^^ what they said is true. You have to know all aspects of the format in and out to make a sideboard
Forgot about Coax from the Blind Eternities as a 'wish!' Love the video anyway. Thanks for the good work prof! Learned a lot.
Very nice Video! I learned and laughed very much. I think after every Tolarian Tutor by you I become a bid better in MtG
This series is great! It feels as if I were taking an online course in MtG (though fun and engaging). Keep it up, please! :D
Also, I would totally love to see a similar series from you, but for Pokémon TCG. I just recently got back to playing Pokémon TCG (as a matter of fact, your reviews on some of its products did help me with this decision), and I have enjoyed it just as much as playing MtG. Of course, this would mean a heck of more research on Pokémon TCG on your part, and thus more work, so I would not expect to see such series anytime soon. However, with the possible upcoming 300K Q&A (by the way, congratulations!), it would be nice to hear whether you plan on adding more videos to your small collection of the Pokémon TCG playlist (any videos at all, not just for a tutor series). Consider this my suggestion for the Q&A.
Thank you, Professor, for all the content you offer to our community, and I sincerely hope your channel (and number of followers) keeps growing ever larger.
Happy 300K!
I still remember the first video you made showing your face and thinking how much of a disaster that would be. Now I can't imagine your videos without your fancy sweater-vests.
Excellent episode, as always. Thank you three for the episode.
Great information Prof! Sideboarding has always been an issue for me.
I want to hear your opinion on Jace...
Thank you for this video Prof!!!
This truly helps me as I don't really know how to which cards to sub in. With this video, I hope I can become a better MTG Player.
I am looking all your videos, this channel is amazing. I particularly love Tolarian Tutors !
Thank you for this... Been out of the game so long, I was like - what's and sideboard.
Very good topic. Recently I played on a local Standardtournament against 2 nearly similiar decks of RedAggro. I noticed after the first round which I lost that shapers´sanctuary would be a pretty good card from my sideboard against this deck. So against the other Reddeck I could draw to the answers after sideboard in the Sanctuary.
This makes so much more sense! Thanks!
Holy crap, congrats on the 300k Professor! That's insane! : )
Congratulation on the 300.000 subscribers! Well deserved!😉
Now he surpassed the 1 Million mark
Great advice!
I want to see an even more in "depth" deck tech on merfolk/the fish archetype as it spans across all formats. Do it for the fish Prof!
Hey 300k subs! Congratz Prof! LOVE your channel! Keep growing!
There was a comment below that talked about Land/Spell ratio which I think is important to cover. Also maybe you can do one talking about What is the Meta and How to Build Around it.
I'd like to hear more about counterspell types/timing. (For example, hard counters such as Counterspell, Cryptic Command versus soft counters such as Remand, Mana Leak). Also, figuring out ways to play around counterspells as well would be awesome. It's a bit focused on control, but I think it would help immensely. Thanks & keep up the good work!
Remand and Mana Leak are counters that are used mostly as either early counters or just to out tempo your opponents (which Remand is heavily used for in Modern). The thing about counterspells is that you have to decide which spells are worth countering. Soft counters are mostly good for tempo decks (UR tempo decks in modern), while hard counters are for the more controlling decks (think UW control in Modern). If you see an opponent keeping U mana open and have a grip of cards, chances are the person has a counterspell. Play spells to bait the opponent in wasting their counters then if the person is tapped out or out of counters, that's when you play your big spells.
Fair enough, thanks for the explanation! Much appreciated.
300k Q and A? Congrats Prof.
God how important that topic is. I play Pauper and looking at the vast variety of strategies in Pauper, 15 cards in side-deck just is not enough to have an answer for all varieties there are. I will say though, I loose a lot in pauper, however the wins I do is usually game 2 out of three exactly because I sideboarded. The problem is drawing these cards, which makes me either focus on one concrete threat in my sideboard (Countering burn/land destruction or countering artifacts) I play plain green Stompy and because my strat is straightforward, and relatively slow in comparison to other decks, I need to sideboard a lot. Usually I get the opponent down to 8-12 life and then they overwhelm me with a great, self sufficient board with answers to everything.
How to shuffle!
But I play EDH...
Play wishes to implement sideboarding! You can also play cards like Spawnsire of Ulamog to enable sideboarding in EDH. I've done it, and I loved it.
I thought that official EDH rules stated that you played the Wishes as they are written and you actually do bring in whatever.
Wolf Davis Aren't wish boards still a thing there?
The EDH rules state that each group of commander players should reach a consensus about what cards are allowed to be gathered by the Wishes.
Wolf Davis oof
6 years after, I'm still learning in what is now the tolarian encyclopédie. This version of the Prof is not that far from the latest wich is my favorite.
Tolarian tutor is an amazing show. thanks load professer. Sorry for the improper grammer and misspealing.
Something that I picked up a while ago was that if your local meta is dominated by a common strategy you can give yourself a big advantage if you start out sideboarded against that deck. Right now I'm building Naya Dinosaurs but my meta is dominated by U/W approach and Grixis Energy so instead of sideborading cards like Vance's Blasting Cannons I'm going to main deck them and board them out against faster decks like Ramunapless Red.
Hey, how about covering Tribal decks for the series?
300k subs!
congrats on 300k prof
what do you think about jace, the mind sculptor in modern?
"Darkness holds more than mere trickery... and boogeymen..."
$$$$$
A terrible thing. Wizards just wants to sell Masters 25 packs. Modern was doing great and was super diverse, you could play pretty much anything and win. Now blue control shells and any deck must consider this one card. If you happen to play a blue midrange deck it's almost essential to have a 4x of jace or you will be severely out gunned by others. Bloodbraid elf is cool, not terrible makes jund better and some combo decks like living end more powerful.
Lucas Nevis BBE does nothing for living end.
Lucas Nevis no deck plays 4. It’s usually 3. It’s a legendary permanent that is gonna be a co primary win con along with entreat the angels and people and people are gonna play lots of pitching needle effects. It’s not in my opinion gonna be as powerful as people say
A pretty good one would probably be land and manabasing. In addition for a higher level study it might be useful to go over how to tweak a deck and how important flex spots are
Hey prof, at around 7:41 in the video, it was a bit hard to hear you talk with the background music.
Just thought you might need to know. Love this series keep up the good work
You're a great teacher
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.
Hi TCC. watched almost all of ur videos and love the channel. could you maybe make a video to help clear up Commander side boarding (or wish boards) because there seems to be little to no information on commander sideboards and how wish cards work. thanks! keep making great videos.
Unfortunately I was in a card/comic store where someone was wanting to learn to play magic and I didn't have the time to teach and the owner of the store said "I don't teach people how to play magic". I wish I had time, but if you had a video that describes the basics to new people and then I could tell them to watch the video and then meet back with me another time, that would be helpful. I know this comment has grammatical errors (forgive me Professor), but I think it's important to remember the new people and if magic is going to endure we have to take care of them. Love your videos! Friend me on facebook, Professor! You're awesome. Wish we could sit down for a pint.
J D recommend magic duels?
Yeah I used to play that game all the time. It's not current now. They stopped after Amonkhet. It would be really good to reference for new players. I'm going to tell them to go download it, but it's not current and not all of the cards from those sets are in the game... but it is fun. Hook-up the new people, Prof!
A common phrase in the YGO community is that you play more games WITH than WITHOUT your side, and that it might be worth it to push certain cards from your side to your main, just to be able to include everything you need in your side+main deck. For magic this is a bit more tricky, as meta's are way more diverse, but it still holds true whenever a certain deck type, such as aggro gets more representation. Right now you can include a bit more creature hate in your maindeck, in order to make room for more specific cards like crook of condemnation in your side. Doing so increases your aggro and grave matchups, at the expense of having more sub-par cards against control.
Love the video, would love to see more
Thank you for todays lesson. Sideboards are something I stuggle with so this was helpful. Sounds a little silly but id like to know what you think the best Unstable Constructed deck is. I hope to see a future lesson on mechanic interaction, things like how deathtouch and trample work in a combo and other keyqord mechanics work in a good combo.
Hey, i think u should do a guide about the stack and how spells and abilities resolve, prioritys during players turns etc
Happy 300k!!
Could we get an advanced episode on The Stack? Maybe something utilizing Storm and going through some example chains?
Professor, you rock so much! If I may make a suggestion, maybe a deck tech on Pauper Zuberas? I started playing MTG during Kamigawa and Five color zuberas was the first deck i really built on my own. It was awesome and hopefully we can see how it's done in pauper?
A very important thing that wasn't covered is what to take out of your deck to put in the sideboard cards, many times you add too many side board cards in detriment of the consistency of your deck and that ends up killing you. What to take out is one of the most difficult decisions to make when using a sideboard correctly
Good job for the 300K
This video didn't show up in my notification box despite having rung the bell. I hope we'll soon find out how to sideboard against UA-cam stupidity.
I would love to see an episode about proper match etiquette
I'm guessing this also goes over the new keyword going to be seen on cards. That keyword being "thisparticular" which allows players to be very nit picky in order to further annoy the opponent.
I think one on brewing decks for constructed formats would be interesting
Am i allowed to bring food in this class?
Nice subject Professor.
What I’m really bad at (not always, but often), is figuring out what to take out of the deck for cards I’m boarding in
thank you prof
It’s not about getting better, it’s about having fun. Getting better is secondary
the question that one should always ask when sideboarding, in my opinion is, of the things i am going to encounter in my particular meta, what can my baseline deck NOT deal with. for example, my elf deck is essentially solitaire. it has very little opponent interaction, it's raw, unfiltered power. the sideboard of this deck is designed around sacrificing some potential power to handle things like removal, enchantments, poison counters, bounce spells, etc. these are things my baseline deck has no answers to.
Hey prof, I have a few questions that I am asking all of the MTG players I follow online and really value your opinion. What does it mean for a deck to be competitive? Does the meaning of the term differ between formats? What is the cheapest “competitive” deck in the modern format in your opinion?
As a casual player that's been playing on and off since the 8th expansion, I'm finally going to make my first sideboard. It's so new to me that I'm actually excited... Is that sad?
I'm excited to make a *sideboard*... Lol
Can you do an episode on analyzing the metagame?
Yeeeeehaaa 300k!!!!
Awesome vid Prof!
Can you make a video briefly describing each common modern sideboard card and what it's used for. I learn here and there when seth does an instant deck deck, but I bet there are a ton of cards I am not aware of still.
The part where Prof was talking about Sideboarding against Sideboard:
"Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Omfg I dont miss my 8am class professor!
I really want to learn more about what to take out
A little out of focus on the camera, but the content was awesome as always!