Modern staples: Red or Colorless, Removal or Counterspells or Recursion

36 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 (23)

#	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	Sowing Mycospawn Creature — Eldrazi Fungus	Creature — Eldrazi Fungus	14.8%	3.9
4	Devourer of Destiny Creature — Eldrazi	Creature — Eldrazi	13.5%	3.0
5	Vexing Bauble Artifact	Artifact	12.9%	1.4
6	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	12.3%	1.0
7	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
8	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.3%	3.9
9	Ugin, Eye of the Storms Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin	Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin	8.2%	2.9
10	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
11	Goblin Bombardment Enchantment	Enchantment	7.3%	3.2
12	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	5.4%	3.8
13	Detective's Phoenix Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	5.0%	3.9
14	Weapons Manufacturing Enchantment	Enchantment	4.5%	3.9
15	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.2%	1.4
16	Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger Legendary Creature — Eldrazi	Legendary Creature — Eldrazi	3.9%	1.8
17	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	3.0
18	Chalice of the Void Artifact	Artifact	2.5%	2.2
19	Price of Freedom Sorcery — Lesson	Sorcery — Lesson	2.5%	4.0
20	Cleansing Wildfire Sorcery	Sorcery	2.5%	3.9
21	Avengers Disassembled Sorcery	Sorcery	2.3%	2.9
22	All Is Dust Kindred Sorcery — Eldrazi	Kindred Sorcery — Eldrazi	2.2%	1.0
23	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	1.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (21)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Vexing Bauble Artifact	Artifact	31.4%	1.5
2	Obsidian Charmaw Creature — Dragon	Creature — Dragon	16.9%	2.6
3	Meltdown Sorcery	Sorcery	14.9%	1.9
4	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
5	Thief of Existence Creature — Eldrazi	Creature — Eldrazi	7.8%	1.5
6	Brotherhood's End Sorcery	Sorcery	6.7%	1.7
7	Warping Wail Instant	Instant	6.7%	1.5
8	Engineered Explosives Artifact	Artifact	6.6%	1.8
9	Chalice of the Void Artifact	Artifact	6.1%	2.0
10	Whipflare Sorcery	Sorcery	4.8%	1.5
11	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
12	Walking Ballista Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	4.1%	1.1
13	Extinguisher Battleship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.8%	1.0
14	Cityscape Leveler Artifact Creature — Construct	Artifact Creature — Construct	3.5%	1.0
15	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
16	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
17	Pyroclasm Sorcery	Sorcery	3.3%	1.7
18	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
19	The Filigree Sylex Legendary Artifact	Legendary Artifact	2.9%	1.0
20	Haywire Mite Artifact Creature — Insect	Artifact Creature — Insect	2.3%	1.0
21	Ingot Chewer Creature — Elemental	Creature — Elemental	2.0%	1.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it