Premodern staples: Blue or Black, Removal or Discard or Recursion

25 cards played in at least 2% of the 3465 Premodern decks of the last 120 days, in the main deck or in the sideboard. The most played in the main deck: Duress (17% of decks).

Main deck (16)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Duress Sorcery	Sorcery	17.4%	3.7
2	Cabal Therapy Sorcery	Sorcery	16.9%	3.6
3	Chain of Vapor Instant	Instant	16.2%	1.5
4	Vision Charm Instant	Instant	13.7%	4.0
5	Smother Instant	Instant	12.7%	2.3
6	Diabolic Edict Instant	Instant	8.1%	1.9
7	Ravenous Rats Creature — Rat	Creature — Rat	6.8%	3.6
8	Hypnotic Specter Creature — Specter	Creature — Specter	6.2%	3.9
9	Unearth Sorcery	Sorcery	4.6%	3.3
10	Volrath's Shapeshifter Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter	Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter	4.3%	2.0
11	Animate Dead Enchantment — Aura	Enchantment — Aura	4.1%	1.0
12	Snuff Out Instant	Instant	4.1%	1.2
13	Sickening Dreams Sorcery	Sorcery	3.8%	1.9
14	Shallow Grave Instant	Instant	2.8%	2.2
15	Reanimate Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	3.1
16	Plaguebearer Creature — Zombie	Creature — Zombie	2.2%	1.1

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (13)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Hydroblast Instant	Instant	25.4%	2.3
2	Blue Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	21.7%	2.3
3	Engineered Plague Enchantment	Enchantment	17.3%	3.0
4	Essence Flare Enchantment — Aura	Enchantment — Aura	12.8%	2.9
5	Chain of Vapor Instant	Instant	11.3%	1.2
6	Duress Sorcery	Sorcery	7.8%	2.0
7	Dystopia Enchantment	Enchantment	6.5%	2.8
8	Smother Instant	Instant	4.1%	1.6
9	Diabolic Edict Instant	Instant	3.8%	1.5
10	Teferi's Response Instant	Instant	3.8%	1.8
11	Drain Life Sorcery	Sorcery	3.0%	1.3
12	Spinning Darkness Instant	Instant	2.7%	1.4
13	Vendetta Instant	Instant	2.1%	1.3

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it