Pauper staples: Instants or Artifacts, Counterspells or Cantrips or Burn or Recursion

45 cards played in at least 2% of the 8834 Pauper decks of the last 120 days, in the main deck or in the sideboard. The most played in the main deck: Lightning Bolt (25% of decks).

Main deck (30)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Lightning Bolt Instant	Instant	24.6%	3.8
2	Counterspell Instant	Instant	24.6%	4.0
3	Brainstorm Instant	Instant	18.0%	3.7
4	Dispel Instant	Instant	16.1%	1.9
5	Fireblast Instant	Instant	14.4%	3.1
6	Refurbished Familiar Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	14.1%	4.0
7	Fiery Temper Instant	Instant	14.1%	4.0
8	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	13.1%	3.9
9	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	12.9%	4.0
10	Ichor Wellspring Artifact	Artifact	12.6%	3.6
11	Blood Fountain Artifact	Artifact	10.4%	1.8
12	Lembas Artifact — Food	Artifact — Food	10.3%	2.9
13	Thought Scour Instant	Instant	9.5%	4.0
14	Mental Note Instant	Instant	9.4%	3.9
15	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	8.6%	2.6
16	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	6.9%	2.1
17	Baleful Strix Artifact Creature — Bird	Artifact Creature — Bird	6.3%	3.8
18	Campfire Artifact	Artifact	5.6%	2.0
19	Barrels of Blasting Jelly Artifact	Artifact	5.1%	3.2
20	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	5.1%	1.2
21	Plunder the Trollshaws Instant	Instant	4.9%	2.7
22	Skred Instant	Instant	4.6%	3.8
23	Cryogen Relic Artifact	Artifact	4.6%	3.4
24	Breath Weapon Instant	Instant	3.6%	1.7
25	Black Mage's Rod Artifact — Equipment	Artifact — Equipment	3.4%	2.4
26	Force Spike Instant	Instant	3.4%	2.8
27	Prophetic Prism Artifact	Artifact	3.3%	2.9
28	Pinnacle Kill-Ship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.1%	3.9
29	Union of the Third Path Instant	Instant	2.8%	1.4
30	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 (20)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Hydroblast Instant	Instant	34.2%	3.3
2	Pyroblast Instant	Instant	33.3%	3.3
3	Blue Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	29.0%	2.8
4	Red Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	25.3%	2.6
5	Breath Weapon Instant	Instant	20.4%	2.3
6	Annul Instant	Instant	19.1%	3.1
7	Cast into the Fire Instant	Instant	17.1%	2.6
8	Envelop Instant	Instant	11.8%	1.6
9	Smash to Smithereens Instant	Instant	9.8%	2.6
10	Steel Sabotage Instant	Instant	9.7%	2.6
11	Searing Blaze Instant	Instant	9.2%	2.1
12	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	8.8%	1.9
13	Gut Shot Instant	Instant	7.7%	2.8
14	Campfire Artifact	Artifact	6.9%	1.6
15	Dispel Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.6
16	Electrickery Instant	Instant	3.6%	2.1
17	Negate Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.8
18	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
19	Fiery Cannonade Instant	Instant	2.3%	2.0
20	Ram Through Instant	Instant	2.1%	2.0

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it