Hello everyone, and welcome to my Skred sideboard guide! If you haven’t read my previous piece on the deck, I urge you to give it a go before diving into this guide to familiarise yourself with my approach to UR.

General sideboarding remarks
As per usual, I view sideboarding more as an art than a science, and the exact configurations presented in this article are more of a suggestion rather than hard rules. You should always adapt to what you see on the other side of the table, especially in open decklists environments, which sadly aren't commonplace in Pauper, although I hope this changes one day. Here are some general guidelines that I tend to use when sideboarding with Skred:

I never cut any of the “glue” cards, i.e. Lórien Revealed, Brainstorm and Ponder, as they're a vital part of the deck and enable the shaky, two colour manabase to function properly. Dreams of Laguna is a borderline case, and I find myself trimming some copies rarely in the matchups that are all about speed an...