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

39 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 (24)

#	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	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	12.3%	1.0
7	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
8	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	10.3%	1.0
9	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.3%	3.9
10	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
11	March of Otherworldly Light Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.2
12	Tormod's Crypt Artifact	Artifact	7.7%	3.0
13	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	6.7%	2.0
14	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.8%	4.0
15	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	5.4%	3.8
16	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
17	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
18	Agatha's Soul Cauldron Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	3.9%	2.0
19	Erode Instant	Instant	3.7%	3.3
20	Relic of Progenitus Artifact	Artifact	2.9%	2.6
21	Cling to Dust Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.2
22	Path to Exile Instant	Instant	2.6%	3.7
23	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	2.4%	1.0
24	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 (24)

#	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	Wear // Tear Instant // Instant	Instant // Instant	15.9%	1.9
4	Nature's Claim Instant	Instant	13.9%	2.1
5	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	13.0%	1.5
6	Dismember Instant	Instant	13.0%	1.5
7	Force of Vigor Instant	Instant	11.2%	1.9
8	Tormod's Crypt Artifact	Artifact	10.4%	1.3
9	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
10	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	8.7%	1.7
11	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
12	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	6.6%	1.8
13	Celestial Purge Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.3
14	Soulless Jailer Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem	Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem	5.4%	1.2
15	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
16	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.1%	1.1
17	Extinguisher Battleship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.8%	1.0
18	Cityscape Leveler Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	3.5%	1.0
19	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	3.2%	1.3
20	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
21	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	3.0%	1.2
22	Abrupt Decay Instant	Instant	2.9%	2.0
23	The Filigree Sylex Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	2.9%	1.0
24	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	2.3%	1.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it