Modern staples: Instants or Artifacts, Creature removal or Card draw or Recursion

38 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	Kozilek's Command Kindred Instant — Eldrazi	Kindred Instant — Eldrazi	19.5%	4.0
3	Mishra's Bauble Artifact	Artifact	19.4%	4.0
4	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	17.9%	3.3
5	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.9%	1.8
6	Vexing Bauble Artifact	Artifact	12.9%	1.4
7	Dismember Instant	Instant	12.4%	2.0
8	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
9	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	10.3%	1.0
10	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.2%	3.9
11	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
12	March of Otherworldly Light Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.2
13	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	6.7%	2.0
14	Faithful Mending Instant	Instant	5.9%	3.0
15	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.7%	4.0
16	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	5.4%	3.8
17	Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge Instant // Land	Instant // Land	5.2%	1.6
18	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
19	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
20	Erode Instant	Instant	3.7%	3.3
21	Manamorphose Instant	Instant	3.6%	4.0
22	Relic of Progenitus Artifact	Artifact	2.9%	2.6
23	Cling to Dust Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.2
24	Path to Exile Instant	Instant	2.6%	3.7
25	Mind Stone Artifact	Artifact	2.6%	3.9
26	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	2.4%	1.0
27	Hollow One Artifact Creature — Golem	Artifact Creature — Golem	2.3%	4.0
28	Drown in the Loch Instant	Instant	2.1%	1.5

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (18)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Vexing Bauble Artifact	Artifact	31.4%	1.5
2	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	13.0%	1.5
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	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
7	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	6.6%	1.8
8	Celestial Purge Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.3
9	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
10	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.1%	1.1
11	Veil of Summer Instant	Instant	4.1%	2.3
12	Extinguisher Battleship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.8%	1.0
13	Cityscape Leveler Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	3.5%	1.0
14	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	3.1%	1.3
15	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
16	Abrupt Decay Instant	Instant	3.0%	2.0
17	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.3
18	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