Modern staples: Blue or Black or Red, Removal or Counterspells or Recursion

54 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 (37)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Lightning Bolt Instant	Instant	21.1%	3.4
2	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	18.5%	2.5
3	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	17.9%	3.3
4	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.9%	1.8
5	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	12.7%	2.1
6	Dismember Instant	Instant	12.4%	2.0
7	Consign to Memory Instant	Instant	11.4%	2.0
8	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
9	Orcish Bowmasters Creature — Orc Archer	Creature — Orc Archer	8.6%	2.9
10	Subtlety Creature — Elemental Incarnation	Creature — Elemental Incarnation	8.5%	3.2
11	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.2%	3.9
12	Counterspell Instant	Instant	8.1%	3.1
13	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
14	Emperor of Bones Creature — Skeleton Noble	Creature — Skeleton Noble	7.2%	2.8
15	Goblin Bombardment Enchantment	Enchantment	7.2%	3.2
16	Emry, Lurker of the Loch Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard	Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard	6.1%	2.9
17	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.7%	4.0
18	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	5.6%	2.9
19	Overlord of the Balemurk Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror	Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror	5.4%	3.9
20	Detective's Phoenix Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	5.0%	3.9
21	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
22	Weapons Manufacturing Enchantment	Enchantment	4.5%	3.9
23	Nethergoyf Creature — Lhurgoyf	Creature — Lhurgoyf	4.3%	3.9
24	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	3.0
25	Stubborn Denial Instant	Instant	3.1%	3.0
26	Day's Undoing Sorcery	Sorcery	2.9%	2.2
27	Living End Sorcery	Sorcery	2.8%	3.0
28	Boomerang Basics Sorcery — Lesson	Sorcery — Lesson	2.7%	3.2
29	Stormchaser's Talent Enchantment — Class	Enchantment — Class	2.5%	2.6
30	Price of Freedom Sorcery — Lesson	Sorcery — Lesson	2.5%	4.0
31	Archon of Cruelty Creature — Archon	Creature — Archon	2.5%	3.7
32	Cleansing Wildfire Sorcery	Sorcery	2.5%	3.9
33	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
34	Avengers Disassembled Sorcery	Sorcery	2.3%	2.9
35	Persist Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	4.0
36	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	1.0
37	Pact of Negation Instant	Instant	2.1%	3.1

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (27)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Consign to Memory Instant	Instant	44.5%	3.3
2	Mystical Dispute Instant	Instant	36.1%	2.5
3	Obsidian Charmaw Creature — Dragon	Creature — Dragon	16.9%	2.6
4	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	15.4%	1.6
5	Meltdown Sorcery	Sorcery	14.9%	1.9
6	Dismember Instant	Instant	13.0%	1.5
7	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
8	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	8.7%	1.7
9	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	7.1%	1.6
10	Brotherhood's End Sorcery	Sorcery	6.8%	1.7
11	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	4.9%	1.7
12	Whipflare Sorcery	Sorcery	4.8%	1.5
13	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
14	Break the Ice Sorcery	Sorcery	4.4%	2.5
15	Toxic Deluge Sorcery	Sorcery	3.8%	1.4
16	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
17	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
18	Pyroclasm Sorcery	Sorcery	3.3%	1.7
19	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
20	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.3
21	Swan Song Instant	Instant	2.7%	1.4
22	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	2.7%	2.0
23	Glistening Deluge Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	1.9
24	Stern Scolding Instant	Instant	2.2%	1.4
25	Strix Serenade Instant	Instant	2.1%	1.2
26	Flusterstorm Instant	Instant	2.1%	2.0
27	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