Pauper staples: Instants or Artifacts, Counterspells or Card draw or Burn or Recursion

58 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: Lightning Bolt (25% of decks).

Main deck (42)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Lightning Bolt Instant	Instant	24.6%	3.8
2	Counterspell Instant	Instant	24.5%	4.0
3	Brainstorm Instant	Instant	18.0%	3.7
4	Dispel Instant	Instant	16.1%	1.9
5	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	15.7%	2.6
6	Fireblast Instant	Instant	14.3%	3.1
7	Refurbished Familiar Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	14.2%	4.0
8	Fiery Temper Instant	Instant	14.1%	4.0
9	Galvanic Blast Instant	Instant	13.1%	3.9
10	Lava Dart Instant	Instant	12.9%	4.0
11	Ichor Wellspring Artifact	Artifact	12.7%	3.6
12	Blood Fountain Artifact	Artifact	10.5%	1.8
13	Lembas Artifact — Food	Artifact — Food	10.4%	2.9
14	Eviscerator's Insight Instant	Instant	10.1%	2.6
15	Thought Scour Instant	Instant	9.5%	4.0
16	Mental Note Instant	Instant	9.4%	3.9
17	Bonder's Ornament Artifact	Artifact	9.0%	2.1
18	Fanatical Offering Instant	Instant	8.6%	3.6
19	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	8.6%	2.6
20	Suffocating Fumes Instant	Instant	7.8%	1.1
21	Reckoner's Bargain Instant	Instant	7.8%	3.6
22	Sewer-veillance Cam Artifact	Artifact	7.0%	1.7
23	Toxin Analysis Instant	Instant	6.9%	1.9
24	Spell Pierce Instant	Instant	6.9%	2.1
25	Baleful Strix Artifact Creature — Bird	Artifact Creature — Bird	6.2%	3.8
26	Melded Moxite Artifact	Artifact	6.0%	3.1
27	Campfire Artifact	Artifact	5.6%	2.0
28	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	5.1%	1.2
29	Barrels of Blasting Jelly Artifact	Artifact	5.1%	3.2
30	Plunder the Trollshaws Instant	Instant	4.9%	2.7
31	Cryogen Relic Artifact	Artifact	4.6%	3.4
32	Skred Instant	Instant	4.6%	3.8
33	Candy Trail Artifact — Food Clue	Artifact — Food Clue	4.3%	3.4
34	Unfathomable Truths Instant	Instant	3.8%	2.9
35	Breath Weapon Instant	Instant	3.6%	1.7
36	Black Mage's Rod Artifact — Equipment	Artifact — Equipment	3.4%	2.4
37	Force Spike Instant	Instant	3.4%	2.8
38	Prophetic Prism Artifact	Artifact	3.3%	2.9
39	Pinnacle Kill-Ship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.1%	3.9
40	Union of the Third Path Instant	Instant	2.8%	1.4
41	Abandon Attachments Instant — Lesson	Instant — Lesson	2.5%	2.5
42	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 (22)

#	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	Breath Weapon Instant	Instant	20.4%	2.3
7	Annul Instant	Instant	19.1%	3.1
8	Cast into the Fire Instant	Instant	17.1%	2.6
9	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	12.1%	1.8
10	Envelop Instant	Instant	11.8%	1.6
11	Smash to Smithereens Instant	Instant	9.8%	2.6
12	Steel Sabotage Instant	Instant	9.7%	2.6
13	Searing Blaze Instant	Instant	9.2%	2.1
14	Thraben Charm Instant	Instant	8.8%	1.9
15	Gut Shot Instant	Instant	7.7%	2.8
16	Campfire Artifact	Artifact	6.9%	1.6
17	Dispel Instant	Instant	6.4%	1.6
18	Electrickery Instant	Instant	3.6%	2.1
19	Negate Instant	Instant	2.9%	1.9
20	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
21	Fiery Cannonade Instant	Instant	2.3%	2.0
22	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