Premodern staples: Creatures or Instants or Artifacts, Counterspells or Recursion or Lifegain

27 cards played in at least 2% of the 3488 Premodern decks of the last 120 days, in the main deck or in the sideboard. The most played in the main deck: Swords to Plowshares (38% of decks).

Main deck (19)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Swords to Plowshares Instant	Instant	38.1%	3.7
2	Counterspell Instant	Instant	26.0%	3.9
3	Foil Instant	Instant	19.1%	3.6
4	Daze Instant	Instant	16.6%	2.2
5	Stifle Instant	Instant	14.0%	3.9
6	Thwart Instant	Instant	13.9%	1.3
7	Squee, Goblin Nabob Legendary Creature — Goblin	Legendary Creature — Goblin	9.4%	1.1
8	Mana Leak Instant	Instant	8.1%	2.6
9	Exalted Angel Creature — Angel	Creature — Angel	6.7%	2.2
10	Krosan Reclamation Instant	Instant	4.8%	1.0
11	Ravenous Baloth Creature — Beast	Creature — Beast	4.3%	2.3
12	Volrath's Shapeshifter Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter	Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter	4.3%	2.0
13	Karmic Guide Creature — Angel Spirit	Creature — Angel Spirit	4.1%	1.0
14	Battlefield Scrounger Creature — Centaur	Creature — Centaur	3.9%	1.0
15	Annul Instant	Instant	3.8%	1.5
16	Prohibit Instant	Instant	3.7%	1.3
17	Shallow Grave Instant	Instant	2.8%	2.2
18	Genesis Creature — Incarnation	Creature — Incarnation	2.6%	1.2
19	Eternal Dragon Creature — Dragon Spirit	Creature — Dragon Spirit	2.1%	2.5

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it

Sideboard (12)

#	Card	Type	% of decks	Avg. copies
1	Hydroblast Instant	Instant	25.3%	2.3
2	Annul Instant	Instant	24.3%	2.6
3	Blue Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	21.7%	2.3
4	Red Elemental Blast Instant	Instant	20.1%	2.3
5	Pyroblast Instant	Instant	18.6%	2.4
6	Swords to Plowshares Instant	Instant	9.7%	1.3
7	Exalted Angel Creature — Angel	Creature — Angel	7.8%	2.3
8	Zuran Orb Artifact	Artifact	7.0%	1.3
9	Ravenous Baloth Creature — Beast	Creature — Beast	4.0%	1.7
10	Teferi's Response Instant	Instant	3.8%	1.8
11	Crumble Instant	Instant	3.1%	1.6
12	Spinning Darkness Instant	Instant	2.7%	1.4

% of decks

decks of the format that play it in this part

Avg. copies

among the decks that play it