“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.”
Missing sideboard cards? The full 15-card sideboard runs about $344.
Buy sideboard on ManapoolPyroblast is excellent here, countering or destroying blue spells/permanents like Force of Will, Daze, Brainstorm, Ponder, Murktide Regent, Tamiyo, and Kaito. Null Rod shuts off Mishra's Bauble and any artifact activations while not hurting our own gameplan since we have no key artifact abilities. Static Prison and Sand Scout come out as our weakest cards against a deck full of cheap, efficient interaction and a low curve where a slow exile-enchantment and a conditional 2/2 contribute less. Keep pressuring with the core engine while using Pyroblast to blow out their countermagic or kill a resolved Murktide Regent.
This is the exact mirror, so Deafening Silence is a strong sideboard card. It limits both players to one noncreature spell each turn, which constrains Swords to Plowshares, Static Prison, Goblin Bombardment (as a spell), and Surgical Extraction, since only one of those can be cast per turn. It does not stop Ajani's loyalty abilities or Goblin Bombardment's sacrifice ability, because those are activated abilities rather than spells. Our deck is mostly creatures, so we can sequence around our own restriction more easily. Surgical Extraction needs a target card in a graveyard, so use it once a copy of Ocelot Pride or Ajani, Nacatl Pariah has been put there. It then exiles every copy from their graveyard, hand, and library, denying key engine pieces. Amped Raptor is cut because it is a fragile 2/1 in a matchup full of cheap removal, and its free cast can hit a noncreature spell that Deafening Silence would limit. Static Prison is cut because it is only a temporary answer, since we have to keep paying energy to hold it, and it competes with Swords to Plowshares for our one noncreature spell each turn. Play around their Wasteland and Karakas, and race carefully since both decks have similar life gain and token generation.
Containment Priest is strong against Show and Tell, exiling any nontoken creature that enters without being cast, which shuts off an Atraxa put into play that way. It does not stop Aluren, since creatures cast for free are still cast, so don't expect Priest to blank Aluren or anything cast off Omniscience. Null Rod turns off Lotus Petal, slowing their explosive starts. Static Prison is weak here because it is a temporary answer that doesn't stop Show and Tell, and the big threats they present are better handled by racing them; Hexing Squelcher's ward does little against their mostly non-targeting plan. Its protection from Force of Will is relevant, but it is a small body that doesn't pressure a combo deck as well as our other threats. Focus on applying early pressure before they assemble Aluren or hit a big Show and Tell into Omniscience.