Ocelot Pride Midrange is a fast white-based creature deck. It pressures with Guide of Souls, Ocelot Pride, Ajani, Amped Raptor and Voice of Victory. Its interaction is Swords to Plowshares, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben making our noncreature spells cost {1} more, Static Prison, and Wasteland. It does not main-deck discard such as Thoughtseize or Cabal Therapy, and it has no Orcish Bowmasters. Leyline of Sanctity only gives us hexproof, and none of their main-deck cards target us as a player. Swords to Plowshares targets creatures, so hexproof for the player would not stop it. Leyline therefore does nothing here and stays in the sideboard. Post-board they bring in Containment Priest, Null Rod, Deafening Silence and Surgical Extraction, none of which Leyline stops either. We make no swaps and keep the full combo suite. The matchup is a race against their wide board, so we should aim to assemble the combo quickly, play around Thalia's tax and Swords on our creatures, and be mindful of Wasteland on our nonbasic lands.

Dimir Tempo wins by protecting a threat with Force of Will and Daze while grinding with Thoughtseize and Wasteland; our best plan is to proactively strip their hand before they can set up disruption. Thoughtseize lets us see their hand and remove a key counterspell or Thoughtseize of their own ahead of our combo turn. Destroy the Evidence is too slow and narrow here, and Memory's Journey/Dread Return are redundant graveyard tools we don't always need against a deck without heavy graveyard hate (only Nihil Spellbomb in their sideboard). Keep the core combo engine fully intact since Force of Will and Daze are the real threats to play around with careful sequencing, not removal.

Sultai Aluren is a glass-cannon combo deck itself, reliant on Show and Tell, Aluren, or Omniscience plus Force of Will backup; Thoughtseize proactively strips away their enabler or their Force of Will before they can protect their combo. This is a race, so Destroy the Evidence (too slow, land-focused) and Bridge from Below (a payoff for creature deaths, less relevant when we want to go under them quickly) can be trimmed. Dread Return is replaceable since it costs 4 and competes with our proactive plan of just winning first. Keep Pact of Negation and the rest of the fast mana intact to protect our own combo turn against their Force of Will.