“Ocelot Pride Midrange is a white-based creature-token strategy that leverages Ocelot Pride to generate a wide board of life-linked Cat tokens whenever noncreature spells resolve, creating explosive value alongside Guide of Souls and Ajani, Nacatl Pariah. The deck disrupts the opponent early with Thoughtseize and Cabal Therapy while applying aggressive pressure, using Orcish Bowmasters to punish cantrip-heavy decks and maintain parity. Wasteland and Karakas provide mana disruption and recursion utility, allowing the deck to play both a proactive threat-on-board gameplan and a disruptive control role simultaneously.”
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Buy sideboard on ManapoolDimir Tempo leans on Brainstorm/Ponder to find and protect Murktide Regent, so Pyroblast is excellent both to counter a blue spell (Brainstorm, Force of Will, Flow State) or destroy a blue permanent like Murktide Regent or Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student outright. Surgical Extraction is strong preemptively against their Nethergoyf/Murktide Regent graveyard plan and can strip a key piece after Thoughtseize reveals their hand. Static Prison is less appealing here since they can simply Wasteland our lands or race the tempo, so we trim it along with Sand Scout for these more surgical, cheap answers. Keep Wasteland and Swords to Plowshares in to fight their own land disruption and answer Murktide Regent.
Eldrazi relies on Lotus Petal and Eldrazi Confluence's Scion tokens for mana acceleration, but Null Rod does not affect Scion tokens since they are creatures rather than artifacts, and Chalice of the Void has no activated abilities. Chalice of the Void set to 1 is a real concern for our one-mana spells like Ocelot Pride and Swords to Plowshares, so try to play around it by leading with two-drops when possible. Hexing Squelcher is particularly valuable here because it prevents our spells from being countered by Chalice of the Void, so we keep the mainboard intact. Keep the core engine and Wasteland in, since denying Eldrazi Temple/Cavern of Souls/Ancient Tomb is excellent against their greedy nonbasic-heavy manabase.
This is the mirror, so the key is disrupting their Ocelot Pride/Ajani/Guide of Souls engine while protecting our own. Deafening Silence severely restricts the amount of noncreature spells (Swords to Plowshares, Static Prison, Goblin Bombardment) both players can cast per turn. Containment Priest only exiles nontoken creatures that enter without being cast, so it does not shut off token-copying shenanigans or punish Lazotep Quarry tokens. We trim Hexing Squelcher and Sand Scout since they are the weakest bodies against a deck built to grind and go wide rather than be raced by small creatures. Keep the removal suite and Wasteland fully intact since denying their mana and answering Ajani/Ocelot Pride is paramount.