Premodern staples: Counterspells or Discard or Recursion

31 cards played in at least 2% of the 3521 Premodern decks of the last 120 days, in the main deck or in the sideboard. The most played in the main deck: Counterspell (26% of decks).

Main deck (24)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Counterspell Instant	Instant	26.2%	3.9
2	Foil Instant	Instant	19.1%	3.6
3	Duress Sorcery	Sorcery	17.1%	3.7
4	Cabal Therapy Sorcery	Sorcery	16.7%	3.7
5	Daze Instant	Instant	16.5%	2.2
6	Replenish Sorcery	Sorcery	15.6%	2.6
7	Stifle Instant	Instant	14.0%	3.9
8	Thwart Instant	Instant	13.9%	1.3
9	Squee, Goblin Nabob Legendary Creature — Goblin	Legendary Creature — Goblin	9.4%	1.1
10	Mana Leak Instant	Instant	8.1%	2.7
11	Ravenous Rats Creature — Rat	Creature — Rat	6.6%	3.6
12	Hypnotic Specter Creature — Specter	Creature — Specter	6.1%	3.9
13	Krosan Reclamation Instant	Instant	4.8%	1.0
14	Unearth Sorcery	Sorcery	4.7%	3.3
15	Decree of Silence Enchantment	Enchantment	4.7%	2.8
16	Volrath's Shapeshifter Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter	Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter	4.3%	2.0
17	Animate Dead Enchantment — Aura	Enchantment — Aura	4.2%	1.0
18	Karmic Guide Creature — Angel Spirit	Creature — Angel Spirit	4.1%	1.0
19	Battlefield Scrounger Creature — Centaur	Creature — Centaur	3.9%	1.0
20	Annul Instant	Instant	3.7%	1.5
21	Prohibit Instant	Instant	3.7%	1.3
22	Shallow Grave Instant	Instant	2.8%	2.2
23	Genesis Creature — Incarnation	Creature — Incarnation	2.6%	1.2
24	Reanimate Sorcery	Sorcery	2.2%	3.2

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (10)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Hydroblast Instant	Instant	25.4%	2.3
2	Annul Instant	Instant	24.4%	2.6
3	Blue Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	21.7%	2.3
4	Red Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	20.2%	2.3
5	Pyroblast Instant	Instant	18.6%	2.4
6	Gaea's Blessing Sorcery	Sorcery	13.1%	1.6
7	Sacred Ground Enchantment	Enchantment	10.1%	1.5
8	Duress Sorcery	Sorcery	7.8%	2.0
9	Replenish Sorcery	Sorcery	4.2%	1.0
10	Teferi's Response Instant	Instant	3.8%	1.8

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it