Modern staples: Instants or Artifacts, Removal or Counterspells or Card draw or Recursion or Graveyard hate

61 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 (40)

#	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	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	18.5%	2.5
5	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	17.9%	3.3
6	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.9%	1.8
7	Vexing Bauble Artifact	Artifact	12.9%	1.4
8	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	12.7%	2.1
9	Dismember Instant	Instant	12.4%	2.0
10	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	12.3%	1.0
11	Consign to Memory Instant	Instant	11.4%	2.0
12	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
13	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	10.3%	1.0
14	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.2%	3.9
15	Counterspell Instant	Instant	8.1%	3.1
16	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
17	March of Otherworldly Light Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.2
18	Tormod's Crypt Artifact	Artifact	7.7%	3.0
19	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	6.7%	2.0
20	Faithful Mending Instant	Instant	5.9%	3.0
21	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.7%	4.0
22	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	5.6%	2.9
23	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	5.4%	3.8
24	Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge Instant // Land	Instant // Land	5.2%	1.6
25	Sheoldred's Edict Instant	Instant	4.7%	1.6
26	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
27	Agatha's Soul Cauldron Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	3.9%	2.0
28	Erode Instant	Instant	3.7%	3.3
29	Manamorphose Instant	Instant	3.6%	4.0
30	Stubborn Denial Instant	Instant	3.1%	3.0
31	Relic of Progenitus Artifact	Artifact	2.9%	2.6
32	Cling to Dust Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.2
33	Path to Exile Instant	Instant	2.6%	3.7
34	Mind Stone Artifact	Artifact	2.6%	3.9
35	Chalice of the Void Artifact	Artifact	2.5%	2.2
36	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
37	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	2.4%	1.0
38	Hollow One Artifact Creature — Golem	Artifact Creature — Golem	2.3%	4.0
39	Pact of Negation Instant	Instant	2.1%	3.1
40	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 (37)

#	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	Surgical Extraction Instant	Instant	22.9%	1.5
5	Grafdigger's Cage Artifact	Artifact	22.7%	1.5
6	Wear // Tear Instant // Instant	Instant // Instant	15.8%	1.9
7	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	15.4%	1.6
8	Nature's Claim Instant	Instant	13.9%	2.1
9	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	13.0%	1.5
10	Dismember Instant	Instant	13.0%	1.5
11	Force of Vigor Instant	Instant	11.2%	1.9
12	Tormod's Crypt Artifact	Artifact	10.4%	1.3
13	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
14	Fatal Push Instant	Instant	8.7%	1.7
15	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	7.1%	1.6
16	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
17	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	6.6%	1.8
18	Celestial Purge Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.3
19	Chalice of the Void Artifact	Artifact	6.1%	2.0
20	Soulless Jailer Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem	Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem	5.4%	1.2
21	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	4.9%	1.7
22	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
23	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.1%	1.1
24	Veil of Summer Instant	Instant	4.1%	2.3
25	Extinguisher Battleship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.8%	1.0
26	Cityscape Leveler Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	3.5%	1.0
27	Soul-Guide Lantern Artifact	Artifact	3.1%	1.3
28	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
29	Abrupt Decay Instant	Instant	3.0%	2.0
30	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.3
31	The Filigree Sylex Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	2.9%	1.0
32	Swan Song Instant	Instant	2.7%	1.4
33	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	2.7%	2.0
34	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	2.3%	1.0
35	Stern Scolding Instant	Instant	2.2%	1.4
36	Strix Serenade Instant	Instant	2.1%	1.2
37	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