Modern staples: Instants or Artifacts, Burn or Recursion or Graveyard hate

22 cards played in at least 2% of the 12650 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 (14)

#	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	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
4	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	10.3%	1.0
5	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.3%	3.9
6	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
7	Tormod's Crypt Artifact	Artifact	7.7%	3.0
8	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	6.7%	2.0
9	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.8%	4.0
10	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
11	Agatha's Soul Cauldron Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	3.9%	2.0
12	Relic of Progenitus Artifact	Artifact	2.9%	2.6
13	Cling to Dust Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.2
14	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	2.4%	1.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (13)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Surgical Extraction Instant	Instant	22.9%	1.5
2	Grafdigger's Cage Artifact	Artifact	22.7%	1.5
3	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	13.0%	1.5
4	Tormod's Crypt Artifact	Artifact	10.4%	1.3
5	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
6	Soulless Jailer Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem	Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem	5.4%	1.2
7	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
8	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.1%	1.1
9	Extinguisher Battleship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.8%	1.0
10	Cityscape Leveler Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	3.5%	1.0
11	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	3.2%	1.3
12	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
13	The Filigree Sylex Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	2.9%	1.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it