Pauper staples: Counterspells or Card draw or Mana rocks or Recursion

78 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 (68)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Counterspell Instant	Instant	24.5%	4.0
2	Lórien Revealed Sorcery	Sorcery	24.3%	3.9
3	Sneaky Snacker Creature — Faerie Rogue	Creature — Faerie Rogue	20.8%	4.0
4	Brainstorm Instant	Instant	18.0%	3.7
5	Voldaren Epicure Creature — Vampire	Creature — Vampire	17.4%	4.0
6	Dispel Instant	Instant	16.1%	1.9
7	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	15.7%	2.6
8	Faithless Looting Sorcery	Sorcery	15.5%	3.3
9	Refurbished Familiar Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	14.2%	4.0
10	Highway Robbery Sorcery	Sorcery	14.2%	3.9
11	Grab the Prize Sorcery	Sorcery	14.0%	4.0
12	Ichor Wellspring Artifact	Artifact	12.7%	3.6
13	Blood Fountain Artifact	Artifact	10.5%	1.8
14	Lembas Artifact — Food	Artifact — Food	10.4%	2.9
15	Eviscerator's Insight Instant	Instant	10.1%	2.6
16	Ponder Sorcery	Sorcery	9.8%	3.2
17	Thought Scour Instant	Instant	9.5%	4.0
18	Mental Note Instant	Instant	9.4%	3.9
19	Bonder's Ornament Artifact	Artifact	9.0%	2.1
20	Fanatical Offering Instant	Instant	8.6%	3.6
21	Thoughtcast Sorcery	Sorcery	8.3%	4.0
22	Preordain Sorcery	Sorcery	8.2%	3.4
23	Suffocating Fumes Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.1
24	Reckoner's Bargain Instant	Instant	7.8%	3.6
25	Spellstutter Sprite Creature — Faerie Wizard	Creature — Faerie Wizard	7.8%	3.9
26	Ninja of the Deep Hours Creature — Human Ninja	Creature — Human Ninja	7.6%	2.9
27	Deep Analysis Sorcery	Sorcery	7.3%	1.2
28	Thorn of the Black Rose Creature — Human Assassin	Creature — Human Assassin	7.3%	2.1
29	Moon-Circuit Hacker Enchantment Creature — Human Ninja	Enchantment Creature — Human Ninja	7.0%	2.8
30	Sewer-veillance Cam Artifact	Artifact	7.0%	1.7
31	Toxin Analysis Instant	Instant	6.9%	1.9
32	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	6.9%	2.1
33	Baleful Strix Artifact Creature — Bird	Artifact Creature — Bird	6.2%	3.8
34	Mulldrifter Creature — Elemental	Creature — Elemental	6.1%	3.5
35	Melded Moxite Artifact	Artifact	6.0%	3.1
36	Thraben Inspector Creature — Human Soldier	Creature — Human Soldier	5.9%	3.9
37	Campfire Artifact	Artifact	5.6%	2.0
38	Cleansing Wildfire Sorcery	Sorcery	5.4%	4.0
39	Archaeomancer Creature — Human Wizard	Creature — Human Wizard	5.2%	2.6
40	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	5.1%	1.2
41	Novice Inspector Creature — Human Detective	Creature — Human Detective	5.0%	3.6
42	Plunder the Trollshaws Instant	Instant	4.9%	2.7
43	Cryogen Relic Artifact	Artifact	4.6%	3.4
44	Twisted Landscape Land	Land	4.5%	3.9
45	Dread Return Sorcery	Sorcery	4.4%	2.1
46	Pursue the Past Sorcery	Sorcery	4.4%	3.7
47	Candy Trail Artifact — Food Clue	Artifact — Food Clue	4.3%	3.4
48	Perilous Landscape Land	Land	4.0%	3.5
49	Seething Landscape Land	Land	3.8%	1.4
50	Unfathomable Truths Instant	Instant	3.8%	2.9
51	Force Spike Instant	Instant	3.4%	2.8
52	Prophetic Prism Artifact	Artifact	3.3%	2.9
53	Faerie Miscreant Creature — Faerie Rogue	Creature — Faerie Rogue	3.2%	4.0
54	Haunted Fengraf Land	Land	3.1%	1.0
55	Outlaw Medic Creature — Human Rogue	Creature — Human Rogue	3.1%	3.7
56	Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom Creature — Human Cleric // Creature — Spirit Cleric	Creature — Human Cleric // Creature — Spirit Cleric	3.1%	3.7
57	Bender's Waterskin Artifact	Artifact	3.0%	2.8
58	Of One Mind Sorcery	Sorcery	2.9%	3.8
59	Union of the Third Path Instant	Instant	2.8%	1.4
60	Rancor Enchantment — Aura	Enchantment — Aura	2.8%	3.7
61	Raffine's Informant Creature — Human Wizard	Creature — Human Wizard	2.6%	4.0
62	Contaminated Landscape Land	Land	2.6%	1.9
63	Harrier Strix Creature — Bird	Creature — Bird	2.6%	2.1
64	Abundant Growth Enchantment — Aura	Enchantment — Aura	2.5%	4.0
65	Abandon Attachments Instant — Lesson	Instant — Lesson	2.5%	2.5
66	Sentinel's Eyes Enchantment — Aura	Enchantment — Aura	2.3%	1.4
67	Manamorphose Instant	Instant	2.3%	4.0
68	Witch's Cottage Land — Swamp	Land — Swamp	2.1%	1.6

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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	Relic of Progenitus Artifact	Artifact	32.0%	2.7
4	Blue Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	29.0%	2.7
5	Red Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	25.4%	2.6
6	Annul Instant	Instant	19.1%	3.1
7	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	12.1%	1.8
8	Envelop Instant	Instant	11.8%	1.6
9	Steel Sabotage Instant	Instant	9.7%	2.6
10	Campfire Artifact	Artifact	6.9%	1.6
11	Dispel Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.6
12	Negate Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.9
13	Cleansing Wildfire Sorcery	Sorcery	2.7%	2.4
14	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
15	Call Damage Control Sorcery	Sorcery	2.3%	1.8

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