Modern staples: Instants or Artifacts, Creature removal or Recursion

26 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 (17)

#	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	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	17.9%	3.3
4	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.8%	1.8
5	Dismember Instant	Instant	12.4%	2.0
6	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
7	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.3%	3.9
8	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
9	March of Otherworldly Light Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.2
10	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	6.7%	2.0
11	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.8%	4.0
12	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	5.4%	3.8
13	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
14	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
15	Erode Instant	Instant	3.7%	3.3
16	Path to Exile Instant	Instant	2.6%	3.7
17	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 (14)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Dismember Instant	Instant	13.0%	1.5
2	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
3	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	8.7%	1.7
4	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
5	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	6.6%	1.8
6	Celestial Purge Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.3
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	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
12	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	3.0%	1.2
13	Abrupt Decay Instant	Instant	2.9%	2.0
14	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