Modern staples: Instants or Sorceries, Counterspells or Recursion

22 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: Force of Negation (19% of decks).

Main deck (16)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	18.5%	2.5
2	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.9%	1.8
3	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	12.7%	2.1
4	Consign to Memory Instant	Instant	11.4%	2.0
5	Green Sun's Zenith Sorcery	Sorcery	10.0%	3.7
6	Counterspell Instant	Instant	8.1%	3.1
7	Goryo's Vengeance Instant — Arcane	Instant — Arcane	5.7%	4.0
8	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	5.6%	2.9
9	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	3.0
10	Stubborn Denial Instant	Instant	3.1%	3.0
11	Day's Undoing Sorcery	Sorcery	2.9%	2.2
12	Living End Sorcery	Sorcery	2.8%	3.0
13	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
14	Persist Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	4.0
15	Pact of Negation Instant	Instant	2.1%	3.1
16	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 (12)

#	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	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	15.4%	1.6
4	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	7.1%	1.6
5	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
6	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	4.9%	1.7
7	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
8	Swan Song Instant	Instant	2.7%	1.4
9	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	2.7%	2.0
10	Stern Scolding Instant	Instant	2.2%	1.4
11	Strix Serenade Instant	Instant	2.1%	1.2
12	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