Lightning Bolt (Modern)
Lightning Bolt appears in 31.3% of Modern decks in the last 30 days (700 decks), averaging 3.5 copies in the main deck. It is played above all in Moonshadow.
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Share of decks
31.3%
▲ 12.5
vs previous 30 days
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
700
695 main, 6 sideboard
Avg. copies
3.5
in the main deck
Win rate
59%
106 top 8 (challenges only)
Weekly data
| Week from | Share of decks |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | 14.7% |
| 2026-08-13 | 17.3% |
| 2026-08-20 | 16.8% |
| 2026-08-27 | 18.8% |
| 2026-09-03 | 16.8% |
| 2026-09-10 | 20.2% |
| 2026-09-17 | 17.1% |
| 2026-09-24 | 24.9% |
| 2026-10-01 | 28.7% |
| 2026-10-08 | 33.4% |
| 2026-10-15 | 33.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 30.6% |
Played together with
| Card | Together | Lift |
|---|---|---|
| Arid Mesa | 75% | 2.0 |
| Bloodstained Mire | 64% | 2.2 |
| Mishra's Bauble | 62% | 2.3 |
| Blood Crypt | 52% | 2.7 |
| Steam Vents | 44% | 1.6 |
| Wooded Foothills | 43% | 1.8 |
| Marsh Flats | 43% | 1.7 |
| Raucous Theater | 41% | 2.7 |
| Scalding Tarn | 38% | 1.6 |
| Thoughtseize | 37% | 1.6 |
| Thundering Falls | 36% | 1.6 |
| Detective's Phoenix | 35% | 3.1 |
| Street Wraith | 34% | 2.7 |
| Nethergoyf | 34% | 2.9 |
| Dark Matter Manipulator | 33% | 2.9 |
| Moonshadow | 33% | 3.0 |
| Unholy Heat | 33% | 3.0 |
| Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer | 33% | 2.4 |
| Fear of Missing Out | 31% | 3.2 |
| Fatal Push | 30% | 1.6 |
- Together
- decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
- Lift
- how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose
Archetypes by metagame share
| Archetype | Meta | Play it |
|---|---|---|
| Moonshadow | 10.7% | 96% |
| Prowess | 7.3% | 100% |
| Boros Energy | 6.5% | 59% |
| Domain Zoo | 4.6% | 100% |
| Ruby Storm | 4.1% | 1% |
| WUBRG (unclassified) | 2.5% | 16% |
| WBRG (unclassified) | 1.8% | 46% |
| UR (unclassified) | 1.6% | 86% |