Modern Death's Shadow
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Death's Shadow has held steady around 0.1% of the Modern metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 0.1% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Typical Modern Death's Shadow maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 23 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Death's Shadow | 4.0 | 100% |
| Mishra's Bauble | 4.0 | 100% |
| Moonshadow | 3.9 | 100% |
| Street Wraith | 3.9 | 100% |
| Swamp | 1.0 | 100% |
| Thoughtseize | 4.0 | 100% |
| Bloodstained Mire | 4.0 | 96% |
| Blood Crypt | 2.7 | 91% |
| Fatal Push | 3.4 | 74% |
| Polluted Delta | 4.0 | 70% |
| Scalding Tarn | 3.5 | 65% |
| Stubborn Denial | 3.1 | 65% |
| Watery Grave | 2.1 | 65% |
| Psychic Frog | 4.0 | 61% |
| Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer | 3.8 | 57% |
| Steam Vents | 1.0 | 57% |
| Unholy Heat | 3.0 | 48% |
| Nethergoyf | 4.0 | 39% |
| Undercity Sewers | 1.0 | 39% |
| Drown in the Loch | 2.1 | 35% |
| Quantum Riddler | 3.6 | 35% |
| Raucous Theater | 1.4 | 30% |
| Verdant Catacombs | 3.1 | 30% |
| Detective's Phoenix | 2.7 | 26% |
| Dragon's Rage Channeler | 4.0 | 26% |
| Mountain | 1.0 | 26% |
| Abigale, Eloquent First-Year | 1.8 | 22% |
| Expressive Iteration | 3.2 | 22% |
| Fear of Missing Out | 3.8 | 22% |
| Lightning Bolt | 4.0 | 22% |
| Marsh Flats | 4.0 | 17% |
| Dismember | 1.0 | 13% |
| Academic Dispute | 4.0 | 9% |
| Arena of Glory | 1.5 | 9% |
| Arid Mesa | 3.0 | 9% |
| Counterspell | 2.5 | 9% |
| Faithless Looting | 1.0 | 9% |
| Flow State | 4.0 | 9% |
| Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger | 2.0 | 9% |
| Murktide Regent | 2.0 | 9% |
Typical Modern Death's Shadow sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 23 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 23 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Meltdown | 1.8 | 83% |
| Vexing Bauble | 2.0 | 78% |
| Consign to Memory | 3.7 | 65% |
| Pyroclasm | 2.1 | 65% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.7 | 52% |
| Mystical Dispute | 2.0 | 48% |
| Surgical Extraction | 1.6 | 43% |
| Dress Down | 1.9 | 39% |
| Brotherhood's End | 1.8 | 26% |
| Damping Sphere | 2.0 | 26% |
| Flusterstorm | 2.0 | 17% |
| Obsidian Charmaw | 2.8 | 17% |
| Sheoldred's Edict | 1.8 | 17% |
| End of the Hunt | 2.0 | 13% |
| Engineered Explosives | 1.3 | 13% |
| Harbinger of the Seas | 2.0 | 13% |
| Redirect Lightning | 1.0 | 13% |
| Dai Li Indoctrination | 1.0 | 9% |
| Decorum Dissertation | 1.0 | 9% |
| Duress | 1.5 | 9% |
| Fatal Push | 1.0 | 9% |
| Firebending Lesson | 1.0 | 9% |
| Kaito, Bane of Nightmares | 1.0 | 9% |
| Price of Freedom | 1.0 | 9% |
| Toxic Deluge | 1.5 | 9% |
| Abandon Attachments | 1.0 | 4% |
| Break the Ice | 2.0 | 4% |
| Dismember | 1.0 | 4% |
| Faerie Macabre | 2.0 | 4% |
| Force of Negation | 2.0 | 4% |
| Illness in the Ranks | 1.0 | 4% |
| Magebane Lizard | 1.0 | 4% |
| Mai, Scornful Striker | 2.0 | 4% |
| March of Otherworldly Light | 2.0 | 4% |
| Pest Control | 1.0 | 4% |
| Rakdos Charm | 2.0 | 4% |
| Ruinous Waterbending | 1.0 | 4% |
| Spell Snare | 2.0 | 4% |
| Stern Scolding | 2.0 | 4% |
| Torpor Orb | 2.0 | 4% |
Death's Shadow Modern FAQ
Is Death's Shadow good in Modern right now?
Death's Shadow is 0.1% of Modern decklists, though it's fallen sharply (−81%) over the last two weeks, with 1 Top 8. Best recent finish: 6th (6-2) at Modern Challenge 32 on Jul 15, 2026.
What are the key cards in Modern Death's Shadow?
Nearly every list runs Death's Shadow, Mishra's Bauble, Moonshadow, and Street Wraith (99%+ of Modern Death's Shadow decklists in the last 90 days). Most lists are Stock (5); variants add Abigale, Eloquent First-Year (5), Drown in the Loch (5), and Lightning Bolt (5).
What's a typical Modern Death's Shadow sideboard?
The most common Modern Death's Shadow sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Meltdown (83% of lists), Vexing Bauble (78% of lists), Consign to Memory (65% of lists), and Pyroclasm (65% of lists).
Are there different builds of Modern Death's Shadow?
Recent lists split into Abigale, Eloquent First-Year, Drown in the Loch, Lightning Bolt, and Stock approaches.
What does Uniqueness mean?
Uniqueness rates each list from band 1 (Stock) through band 10 (Unique). Higher means a list is more unusual vs recent peers of this strategy.
How many Modern Death's Shadow decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 89 Modern Death's Shadow decklists all-time (1 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Death's Shadow result Jul 15, 2026.