Modern staples: Blue or Black or Red, Creature removal or Recursion or Graveyard hate

37 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 (28)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Lightning Bolt Instant	Instant	21.1%	3.4
2	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	17.9%	3.3
3	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.9%	1.8
4	Dismember Instant	Instant	12.4%	2.0
5	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
6	Orcish Bowmasters Creature — Orc Archer	Creature — Orc Archer	8.6%	2.9
7	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.2%	3.9
8	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
9	Emperor of Bones Creature — Skeleton Noble	Creature — Skeleton Noble	7.2%	2.8
10	Goblin Bombardment Enchantment	Enchantment	7.2%	3.2
11	Emry, Lurker of the Loch Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard	Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard	6.1%	2.9
12	Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog Creature — Goblin // Land	Creature — Goblin // Land	6.1%	1.7
13	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.7%	4.0
14	Overlord of the Balemurk Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror	Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror	5.4%	3.9
15	Detective's Phoenix Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	5.0%	3.9
16	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
17	Weapons Manufacturing Enchantment	Enchantment	4.5%	3.9
18	Nethergoyf Creature — Lhurgoyf	Creature — Lhurgoyf	4.3%	3.9
19	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	3.0
20	Day's Undoing Sorcery	Sorcery	2.9%	2.2
21	Cling to Dust Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.2
22	Living End Sorcery	Sorcery	2.8%	3.0
23	Boomerang Basics Sorcery — Lesson	Sorcery — Lesson	2.7%	3.2
24	Stormchaser's Talent Enchantment — Class	Enchantment — Class	2.5%	2.6
25	Archon of Cruelty Creature — Archon	Creature — Archon	2.5%	3.7
26	Avengers Disassembled Sorcery	Sorcery	2.3%	2.9
27	Persist Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	4.0
28	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 (14)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Surgical Extraction Instant	Instant	22.9%	1.5
2	Dismember Instant	Instant	13.0%	1.5
3	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
4	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	8.7%	1.7
5	Brotherhood's End Sorcery	Sorcery	6.8%	1.7
6	Whipflare Sorcery	Sorcery	4.8%	1.5
7	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
8	Toxic Deluge Sorcery	Sorcery	3.8%	1.4
9	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
10	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
11	Pyroclasm Sorcery	Sorcery	3.3%	1.7
12	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
13	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.3
14	Glistening Deluge Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	1.9

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it