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MTG Aggro vs Midrange: Matchup Guide & Best Sideboard Cards

Master the aggro vs midrange matchup in MTG. Learn how to stay ahead of midrange's value engine and the best sideboard cards for both sides.

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Matchup Overview

Aggro vs midrange is a race between aggro's speed and midrange's efficiency. Aggro wants to win before midrange's 2-for-1s take over; midrange wants to trade efficiently and stabilize with a planeswalker or value creature.

⚡ Aggro Advantages

  • Faster clock than midrange can answer in the early turns
  • Burn spells go over the top of midrange's blockers
  • Cheap threats force midrange to spend mana reactively
  • Sideboard hate disrupts midrange's discard and removal

⚖️ Midrange Advantages

  • Efficient removal answers aggro's threats profitably
  • Discard strips aggro's best threats before they're played
  • Tarmogoyf and similar creatures block efficiently
  • Planeswalkers generate value that aggro can't answer

Key Sideboard Cards

⚡ Aggro Sideboard

🃏 Skullcrack
🃏 Searing Blood
🃏 Relic of Progenitus
🃏 Smash to Smithereens

⚖️ Midrange Sideboard

🃏 Collective Brutality
🃏 Timely Reinforcements
🃏 Engineered Explosives
🃏 Plague Engineer

💡 Key Tip

Aggro should prioritize burn spells over creatures post-board. Midrange should bring in lifegain and additional removal.

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