Lightning Bolt (Pauper)
Lightning Bolt appears in 25.2% of Pauper decks in the last 30 days (481 decks), averaging 3.8 copies in the main deck. It is played above all in Grixis Madness.
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Share of decks
25.2%
▲ 0.1
vs previous 30 days
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
481
479 main, 3 sideboard
Avg. copies
3.8
in the main deck
Win rate
55%
67 top 8 (challenges only)
Weekly data
| Week from | Share of decks |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | 20.0% |
| 2026-08-13 | 22.3% |
| 2026-08-20 | 20.0% |
| 2026-08-27 | 22.5% |
| 2026-09-03 | 27.1% |
| 2026-09-10 | 25.8% |
| 2026-09-17 | 27.8% |
| 2026-09-24 | 21.0% |
| 2026-10-01 | 25.1% |
| 2026-10-08 | 24.7% |
| 2026-10-15 | 24.2% |
| 2026-10-22 | 27.6% |
Played together with
| Card | Together | Lift |
|---|---|---|
| Sneaky Snacker | 72% | 3.7 |
| Voldaren Epicure | 66% | 4.0 |
| Faithless Looting | 60% | 3.9 |
| Fiery Temper | 59% | 4.0 |
| Grab the Prize | 59% | 4.0 |
| Fireblast | 58% | 4.0 |
| Highway Robbery | 57% | 4.0 |
| Guttersnipe | 53% | 4.0 |
| Lava Dart | 53% | 4.0 |
| Kessig Flamebreather | 43% | 4.0 |
| Great Furnace | 30% | 2.5 |
| Galvanic Blast | 30% | 2.6 |
| Clockwork Percussionist | 21% | 4.0 |
| Melded Moxite | 19% | 3.8 |
| Goblin Tomb Raider | 19% | 4.0 |
| Goblin Bushwhacker | 19% | 4.0 |
| Rally at the Hornburg | 17% | 4.0 |
| Burning-Tree Emissary | 17% | 4.0 |
| Experimental Synthesizer | 16% | 3.7 |
| Chain Lightning | 14% | 4.0 |
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grixis Madness | 14.3% | 100% |
| Mono-Blue Terror | 6.6% | 2% |
| Tron | 5.5% | 3% |
| Gruul Rally | 4.2% | 100% |
| White Weenie | 2.8% | 2% |
| Jund Wildfire | 2.3% | 2% |
| Jeskai Glint Hawk | 2.1% | 100% |
| Jeskai Ephemerate | 1.8% | 23% |