Pauper staples: Creatures or Instants or Artifacts, Counterspells or Card draw

50 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 (41)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Counterspell Instant	Instant	24.5%	4.0
2	Brainstorm Instant	Instant	18.0%	3.7
3	Voldaren Epicure Creature — Vampire	Creature — Vampire	17.4%	4.0
4	Dispel Instant	Instant	16.1%	1.9
5	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	15.7%	2.6
6	Refurbished Familiar Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	14.2%	4.0
7	Ichor Wellspring Artifact	Artifact	12.7%	3.6
8	Blood Fountain Artifact	Artifact	10.5%	1.8
9	Lembas Artifact — Food	Artifact — Food	10.4%	2.9
10	Eviscerator's Insight Instant	Instant	10.1%	2.6
11	Thought Scour Instant	Instant	9.5%	4.0
12	Mental Note Instant	Instant	9.4%	3.9
13	Bonder's Ornament Artifact	Artifact	9.0%	2.1
14	Fanatical Offering Instant	Instant	8.6%	3.6
15	Suffocating Fumes Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.1
16	Reckoner's Bargain Instant	Instant	7.8%	3.6
17	Spellstutter Sprite Creature — Faerie Wizard	Creature — Faerie Wizard	7.8%	3.9
18	Ninja of the Deep Hours Creature — Human Ninja	Creature — Human Ninja	7.6%	2.9
19	Thorn of the Black Rose Creature — Human Assassin	Creature — Human Assassin	7.3%	2.1
20	Moon-Circuit Hacker Enchantment Creature — Human Ninja	Enchantment Creature — Human Ninja	7.0%	2.8
21	Sewer-veillance Cam Artifact	Artifact	7.0%	1.7
22	Toxin Analysis Instant	Instant	6.9%	1.9
23	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	6.9%	2.1
24	Baleful Strix Artifact Creature — Bird	Artifact Creature — Bird	6.2%	3.8
25	Mulldrifter Creature — Elemental	Creature — Elemental	6.1%	3.5
26	Melded Moxite Artifact	Artifact	6.0%	3.1
27	Thraben Inspector Creature — Human Soldier	Creature — Human Soldier	5.9%	3.9
28	Novice Inspector Creature — Human Detective	Creature — Human Detective	5.0%	3.6
29	Plunder the Trollshaws Instant	Instant	4.9%	2.7
30	Cryogen Relic Artifact	Artifact	4.6%	3.4
31	Candy Trail Artifact — Food Clue	Artifact — Food Clue	4.3%	3.4
32	Unfathomable Truths Instant	Instant	3.8%	2.9
33	Force Spike Instant	Instant	3.4%	2.8
34	Prophetic Prism Artifact	Artifact	3.3%	2.9
35	Faerie Miscreant Creature — Faerie Rogue	Creature — Faerie Rogue	3.2%	4.0
36	Outlaw Medic Creature — Human Rogue	Creature — Human Rogue	3.1%	3.7
37	Union of the Third Path Instant	Instant	2.8%	1.4
38	Raffine's Informant Creature — Human Wizard	Creature — Human Wizard	2.6%	4.0
39	Harrier Strix Creature — Bird	Creature — Bird	2.6%	2.1
40	Abandon Attachments Instant — Lesson	Instant — Lesson	2.5%	2.5
41	Manamorphose Instant	Instant	2.3%	4.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (11)

#	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	Dispel Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.6
11	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