Modern staples: Black or Red or Colorless, Removal or Recursion

48 cards played in at least 2% of the 12618 Modern decks of the last 120 days, in the main deck or in the sideboard. The most played in the main deck: Lightning Bolt (21% of decks).

Main deck (32)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Lightning Bolt Instant	Instant	21.1%	3.4
2	Kozilek's Command Kindred Instant — Eldrazi	Kindred Instant — Eldrazi	19.5%	4.0
3	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	17.9%	3.3
4	Sowing Mycospawn Creature — Eldrazi Fungus	Creature — Eldrazi Fungus	14.9%	3.9
5	Devourer of Destiny Creature — Eldrazi	Creature — Eldrazi	13.5%	3.0
6	Dismember Instant	Instant	12.4%	2.0
7	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	12.3%	1.0
8	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
9	Orcish Bowmasters Creature — Orc Archer	Creature — Orc Archer	8.6%	2.9
10	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.2%	3.9
11	Ugin, Eye of the Storms Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin	Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin	8.2%	2.9
12	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
13	Emperor of Bones Creature — Skeleton Noble	Creature — Skeleton Noble	7.2%	2.8
14	Goblin Bombardment Enchantment	Enchantment	7.2%	3.2
15	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.7%	4.0
16	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	5.4%	3.8
17	Overlord of the Balemurk Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror	Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror	5.4%	3.9
18	Detective's Phoenix Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	5.0%	3.9
19	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
20	Weapons Manufacturing Enchantment	Enchantment	4.5%	3.9
21	Nethergoyf Creature — Lhurgoyf	Creature — Lhurgoyf	4.3%	3.9
22	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
23	Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger Legendary Creature — Eldrazi	Legendary Creature — Eldrazi	3.9%	1.8
24	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	3.0
25	Living End Sorcery	Sorcery	2.8%	3.0
26	Price of Freedom Sorcery — Lesson	Sorcery — Lesson	2.5%	4.0
27	Archon of Cruelty Creature — Archon	Creature — Archon	2.5%	3.7
28	Cleansing Wildfire Sorcery	Sorcery	2.5%	3.9
29	Avengers Disassembled Sorcery	Sorcery	2.3%	2.9
30	All Is Dust Kindred Sorcery — Eldrazi	Kindred Sorcery — Eldrazi	2.2%	1.0
31	Persist Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	4.0
32	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	1.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (24)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Obsidian Charmaw Creature — Dragon	Creature — Dragon	16.9%	2.6
2	Meltdown Sorcery	Sorcery	14.9%	1.9
3	Dismember Instant	Instant	13.0%	1.5
4	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
5	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	8.7%	1.7
6	Thief of Existence Creature — Eldrazi	Creature — Eldrazi	7.8%	1.5
7	Brotherhood's End Sorcery	Sorcery	6.8%	1.7
8	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
9	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	6.6%	1.8
10	Whipflare Sorcery	Sorcery	4.8%	1.5
11	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
12	Break the Ice Sorcery	Sorcery	4.4%	2.5
13	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.1%	1.1
14	Extinguisher Battleship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.8%	1.0
15	Toxic Deluge Sorcery	Sorcery	3.8%	1.4
16	Cityscape Leveler Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	3.5%	1.0
17	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
18	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
19	Pyroclasm Sorcery	Sorcery	3.3%	1.7
20	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
21	The Filigree Sylex Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	2.9%	1.0
22	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	2.3%	1.0
23	Glistening Deluge Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	1.9
24	Ingot Chewer Creature — Elemental	Creature — Elemental	2.0%	1.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it