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plural sideboards
(furniture) A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food. examples
A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something. quotations examples
Fleming watched the sideboarded truck diminish down the rolling hillside, the stackers atop the hay clutching the sideboards and swaying and bouncing toward the barn.
2000, William Gay, Provinces of Night, page 196
(collectible card games) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck. quotations examples
Cards can only be exchanged between the playing deck and the sideboard on a one-to-one basis between duels or matches, and any number of cards, up to fifteen, can be exchanged at once.
1995, Larry W. Smith, Learn Magic Cards, page 80
Many of your best chances to overcome opposing decks lie in the development of a strong sideboard.
1995, George Baxter, Larry W. Smith, Mastering magic cards
If you plan on playing in tournaments, you'll want to construct a sideboard for your deck.
2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, page 61
They can have a 15-card sideboard or no sideboard. The sideboard can be used to replace cards in the deck after each game.
2010, Kelly Nicole Czarnecki, Gaming in Libraries, page 54
(fishing) A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery. quotations examples
Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboards, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboarded sectors.
2012, Federal Register - Volume 77, Issue 50, page 15226
third-person singular simple present sideboards, present participle sideboarding, simple past and past participle sideboarded
(collectible card games) To include (a card) in one's sideboard. quotations examples
Hopefully you now have a strong grasp on how to sideboard effectively.
1995, Charles Wolfe, Deep Magic
This will cause an opponent to suffer from a number of his newly sideboarded cards, now useless to him.
1996, George Baxter, Tables of Magic, page 43
Frantic Purification can be sideboarded to destroy an enchantment, but it shouldn't be drafted unless you have no choice.
2002, Steve Frohnhoefer, Michael Searle, Magic: The Gathering Online : Prima's Official Strategy Guide
To add sideboards to. quotations examples
Wood used at the Natioual Guard camps will include flooring for tents. Tents will also be sideboarded for a distance of about three feet up from the ground.
1917, The Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer - Volume 60, page 50
The additional load capacity made available by sideboarding is gained by making the scraper bowl taller without increasing the bowl width.
1970, Jagman Singh, On and with the earth, page 273
The Missouri, that grand, sprawling, unpredictable serpent has been sideboarded and tamed, its occasional venom squeezed for the foreseeable future from its muddy fangs.
2004, The North Dakota Quarterly - Volume 71, Issues 1-2, page 67