Modern staples: Instants or Artifacts, Creature removal or Counterspells or Recursion

41 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 (27)

#	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	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	18.5%	2.5
4	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	17.9%	3.3
5	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.8%	1.8
6	Vexing Bauble Artifact	Artifact	12.9%	1.4
7	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	12.7%	2.1
8	Dismember Instant	Instant	12.4%	2.0
9	Consign to Memory Instant	Instant	11.4%	2.0
10	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
11	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.3%	3.9
12	Counterspell Instant	Instant	8.0%	3.1
13	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
14	March of Otherworldly Light Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.2
15	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	6.7%	2.0
16	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.8%	4.0
17	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	5.6%	2.9
18	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	5.4%	3.8
19	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
20	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
21	Erode Instant	Instant	3.7%	3.3
22	Stubborn Denial Instant	Instant	3.1%	3.0
23	Path to Exile Instant	Instant	2.6%	3.7
24	Chalice of the Void Artifact	Artifact	2.5%	2.2
25	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
26	Pact of Negation Instant	Instant	2.1%	3.1
27	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 (26)

#	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	Vexing Bauble Artifact	Artifact	31.4%	1.5
4	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	15.4%	1.6
5	Dismember Instant	Instant	13.0%	1.5
6	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
7	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	8.7%	1.7
8	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	7.1%	1.6
9	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
10	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	6.6%	1.8
11	Celestial Purge Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.3
12	Chalice of the Void Artifact	Artifact	6.1%	2.0
13	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	4.9%	1.7
14	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
15	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.1%	1.1
16	Extinguisher Battleship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.8%	1.0
17	Cityscape Leveler Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	3.5%	1.0
18	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
19	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	3.0%	1.2
20	Abrupt Decay Instant	Instant	2.9%	2.0
21	The Filigree Sylex Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	2.9%	1.0
22	Swan Song Instant	Instant	2.7%	1.4
23	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	2.7%	2.0
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

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it