Brainstorm (Pauper)
Brainstorm appears in 17.0% of Pauper decks in the last 30 days (325 decks), averaging 3.6 copies in the main deck. It is played above all in Dimir Control.
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Share of decks
17.0%
▼ 0.1
vs previous 30 days
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
325
325 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
3.6
in the main deck
Win rate
60%
70 top 8 (challenges only)
Weekly data
| Week from | Share of decks |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | 8.9% |
| 2026-08-13 | 15.5% |
| 2026-08-20 | 22.3% |
| 2026-08-27 | 17.1% |
| 2026-09-03 | 15.4% |
| 2026-09-10 | 17.2% |
| 2026-09-17 | 17.5% |
| 2026-09-24 | 19.1% |
| 2026-10-01 | 12.9% |
| 2026-10-08 | 19.7% |
| 2026-10-15 | 23.1% |
| 2026-10-22 | 17.6% |
Played together with
| Card | Together | Lift |
|---|---|---|
| Counterspell | 98% | 3.8 |
| Lórien Revealed | 98% | 3.6 |
| Dispel | 65% | 4.4 |
| Snuff Out | 50% | 2.9 |
| Cast Down | 50% | 2.2 |
| Bojuka Bog | 50% | 2.1 |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 49% | 3.7 |
| Baleful Strix | 49% | 2.5 |
| Contaminated Aquifer | 47% | 3.4 |
| Ponder | 46% | 5.6 |
| Murmuring Mystic | 46% | 3.1 |
| Tolarian Terror | 43% | 5.7 |
| Extract a Confession | 43% | 3.7 |
| Augur of Bolas | 42% | 4.8 |
| Thought Scour | 40% | 5.9 |
| Mental Note | 39% | 5.8 |
| Spellstutter Sprite | 39% | 4.6 |
| Faerie Seer | 39% | 4.6 |
| Ninja of the Deep Hours | 39% | 4.4 |
| Sleep of the Dead | 38% | 5.9 |
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dimir Control | 13.1% | 64% |
| Mono-Blue Terror | 6.6% | 99% |
| Tron | 5.5% | 2% |
| Jeskai Ephemerate | 1.8% | 40% |
| UB (unclassified) | 0.7% | 15% |
| UG (unclassified) | 0.4% | 14% |
| UBR (unclassified) | 0.3% | 33% |
| Izzet Pirates | 0.3% | 100% |