Pauper staples: Blue or Red, Counterspells or Recursion or Artifact removal

22 cards played in at least 2% of the 8898 Pauper decks of the last 120 days, in the main deck or in the sideboard. The most played in the main deck: Counterspell (25% of decks).

Main deck (8)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Counterspell Instant	Instant	24.5%	4.0
2	Dispel Instant	Instant	16.1%	1.9
3	Spellstutter Sprite Creature — Faerie Wizard	Creature — Faerie Wizard	7.8%	3.9
4	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	6.9%	2.1
5	Deem Inferior Sorcery	Sorcery	6.5%	2.7
6	Archaeomancer Creature — Human Wizard	Creature — Human Wizard	5.2%	2.6
7	Force Spike Instant	Instant	3.4%	2.8
8	Structural Distortion Sorcery	Sorcery	2.0%	1.9

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (15)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Hydroblast Instant	Instant	34.2%	3.3
2	Pyroblast Instant	Instant	33.4%	3.3
3	Blue Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	29.0%	2.7
4	Red Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	25.4%	2.6
5	Annul Instant	Instant	19.1%	3.1
6	Cast into the Fire Instant	Instant	17.1%	2.6
7	Envelop Instant	Instant	11.8%	1.6
8	Smash to Smithereens Instant	Instant	9.8%	2.6
9	Steel Sabotage Instant	Instant	9.7%	2.6
10	Dispel Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.6
11	Vandalblast Sorcery	Sorcery	5.2%	2.0
12	Suplex Sorcery	Sorcery	5.2%	2.3
13	Ancient Grudge Instant	Instant	4.6%	1.7
14	Gorilla Shaman Creature — Ape Shaman	Creature — Ape Shaman	3.8%	1.4
15	Negate Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.9

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it