Pauper staples: Instants or Artifacts, Removal or Card draw or Recursion

65 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 (47)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Lightning Bolt Instant	Instant	24.6%	3.8
2	Cast Down Instant	Instant	18.9%	3.0
3	Brainstorm Instant	Instant	18.0%	3.7
4	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	15.7%	2.6
5	Fireblast Instant	Instant	14.3%	3.1
6	Refurbished Familiar Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	Artifact Creature — Zombie Rat	14.2%	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	12.7%	3.6
11	Snuff Out Instant	Instant	12.4%	3.1
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	Giant's Boulder Artifact	Artifact	6.3%	3.8
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	Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher Artifact // Artifact	Artifact // Artifact	5.1%	2.1
29	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	5.1%	1.2
30	Barrels of Blasting Jelly Artifact	Artifact	5.1%	3.2
31	Plunder the Trollshaws Instant	Instant	4.9%	2.7
32	Cryogen Relic Artifact	Artifact	4.6%	3.4
33	Skred Instant	Instant	4.6%	3.8
34	Candy Trail Artifact — Food Clue	Artifact — Food Clue	4.3%	3.4
35	Unfathomable Truths Instant	Instant	3.8%	2.9
36	Breath Weapon Instant	Instant	3.6%	1.7
37	Prophetic Prism Artifact	Artifact	3.3%	2.9
38	Snap Instant	Instant	3.3%	3.3
39	Cut Down Instant	Instant	3.2%	2.0
40	Dispatch Instant	Instant	3.2%	3.9
41	Pinnacle Kill-Ship Artifact — Spacecraft	Artifact — Spacecraft	3.1%	3.9
42	Union of the Third Path Instant	Instant	2.8%	1.4
43	Ride's End Instant	Instant	2.8%	1.6
44	Abandon Attachments Instant — Lesson	Instant — Lesson	2.5%	2.5
45	Agony Warp Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.1
46	Manamorphose Instant	Instant	2.3%	4.0
47	Defile Instant	Instant	2.2%	3.3

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (24)

#	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	Cast into the Fire Instant	Instant	17.1%	2.6
8	Nihil Spellbomb Artifact	Artifact	12.1%	1.8
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	Ancient Grudge Instant	Instant	4.6%	1.7
16	Deglamer Instant	Instant	4.3%	2.8
17	Electrickery Instant	Instant	3.6%	2.1
18	Pulse of Murasa Instant	Instant	2.4%	1.4
19	Fiery Cannonade Instant	Instant	2.3%	2.0
20	Destroy Evil Instant	Instant	2.2%	1.6
21	Terminate Instant	Instant	2.2%	1.1
22	Holy Light Instant	Instant	2.2%	1.9
23	Ram Through Instant	Instant	2.1%	2.0
24	Cast Down Instant	Instant	2.0%	1.9

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it