Modern staples: White or Blue or Red, Removal or Counterspells or Recursion

52 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: Solitude (22% of decks).

Main deck (35)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Solitude Creature — Elemental Incarnation	Creature — Elemental Incarnation	21.6%	3.7
2	Lightning Bolt Instant	Instant	21.1%	3.4
3	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	18.5%	2.5
4	Prismatic Ending Sorcery	Sorcery	16.1%	2.0
5	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Instant // Land	Instant // Land	13.9%	1.8
6	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	12.7%	2.1
7	Consign to Memory Instant	Instant	11.4%	2.0
8	Galvanic Discharge Instant	Instant	11.3%	3.7
9	Subtlety Creature — Elemental Incarnation	Creature — Elemental Incarnation	8.5%	3.2
10	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	8.2%	3.9
11	Counterspell Instant	Instant	8.1%	3.1
12	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	7.9%	2.1
13	Wrath of the Skies Sorcery	Sorcery	7.8%	3.0
14	March of Otherworldly Light Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.2
15	Goblin Bombardment Enchantment	Enchantment	7.2%	3.2
16	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	6.7%	2.0
17	Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow Creature — Human Warlock // Land	Creature — Human Warlock // Land	6.4%	3.3
18	Emry, Lurker of the Loch Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard	Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard	6.1%	2.9
19	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	5.6%	2.9
20	Detective's Phoenix Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	Enchantment Creature — Phoenix	5.0%	3.9
21	Weapons Manufacturing Enchantment	Enchantment	4.5%	3.9
22	Leyline Binding Enchantment	Enchantment	4.0%	4.0
23	Erode Instant	Instant	3.7%	3.3
24	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	3.0
25	Stubborn Denial Instant	Instant	3.1%	3.0
26	Day's Undoing Sorcery	Sorcery	2.9%	2.2
27	Boomerang Basics Sorcery — Lesson	Sorcery — Lesson	2.7%	3.2
28	Path to Exile Instant	Instant	2.6%	3.7
29	Stormchaser's Talent Enchantment — Class	Enchantment — Class	2.5%	2.6
30	Price of Freedom Sorcery — Lesson	Sorcery — Lesson	2.5%	4.0
31	Cleansing Wildfire Sorcery	Sorcery	2.5%	3.9
32	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
33	Avengers Disassembled Sorcery	Sorcery	2.3%	2.9
34	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	1.0
35	Pact of Negation Instant	Instant	2.1%	3.1

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (27)

#	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	Wrath of the Skies Sorcery	Sorcery	22.4%	2.3
4	High Noon Enchantment	Enchantment	19.7%	2.2
5	Obsidian Charmaw Creature — Dragon	Creature — Dragon	16.9%	2.6
6	Spell Snare Instant	Instant	15.4%	1.6
7	Meltdown Sorcery	Sorcery	14.9%	1.9
8	Unholy Heat Instant	Instant	10.3%	2.6
9	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	7.1%	1.6
10	Brotherhood's End Sorcery	Sorcery	6.8%	1.7
11	Celestial Purge Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.3
12	Prismatic Ending Sorcery	Sorcery	5.3%	2.4
13	Force of Negation Instant	Instant	4.9%	1.7
14	Whipflare Sorcery	Sorcery	4.8%	1.5
15	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	4.7%	2.5
16	Past in Flames Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
17	Grapeshot Sorcery	Sorcery	3.4%	1.0
18	Pyroclasm Sorcery	Sorcery	3.3%	1.7
19	White Orchid Phantom Creature — Spirit Knight	Creature — Spirit Knight	3.1%	2.2
20	Fire Magic Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.5
21	Into the Flood Maw Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.3
22	Swan Song Instant	Instant	2.7%	1.4
23	Metallic Rebuke Instant	Instant	2.7%	2.0
24	Stern Scolding Instant	Instant	2.2%	1.4
25	Strix Serenade Instant	Instant	2.1%	1.2
26	Flusterstorm Instant	Instant	2.1%	2.0
27	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