Modern Hollow One
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Hollow One has climbed from ~0.5% to 4.5% of the Modern metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Climbed from ~0.5% to 4.5% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Rising Hollow One cards
Cards gaining share within Hollow One vs the prior 14 days, adjusted for format-wide play rate.
Maindeck
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scalding Tarn | 20% | 61% | +41.1% |
| Fatal Push | 5% | 25% | +20% |
| Hardened Academic | 35% | 58% | +23.3% |
| Thoughtseize | 5% | 19% | +14.4% |
| Vengevine | 40% | 61% | +21.1% |
| Elegant Parlor | 45% | 61% | +16.1% |
| Polluted Delta | New | 13% | +12.5% |
| Mount Doom | 5% | 14% | +8.9% |
| Sacred Foundry | 50% | 61% | +11.1% |
| Swamp | 15% | 24% | +8.6% |
| Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer | New | 6% | +5.6% |
| Practiced Offense | 45% | 58% | +13.3% |
Sideboard
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning Bolt | 10% | 56% | +45.6% |
| Fire Magic | 10% | 50% | +40% |
| Damping Sphere | 15% | 56% | +40.6% |
| Surgical Extraction | 40% | 69% | +29.4% |
| Pyroclasm | 5% | 15% | +10.3% |
| Wear/Tear | 45% | 61% | +16.1% |
| Obsidian Charmaw | 50% | 72% | +22.2% |
| Soul-Guide Lantern | New | 8% | +8.3% |
| Rough/Tumble | 15% | 25% | +10% |
| Abrade | New | 7% | +6.9% |
| Fatal Push | 5% | 10% | +4.7% |
| Meltdown | 80% | 96% | +15.8% |
Typical Modern Hollow One maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 157 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Detective's Phoenix | 3.9 | 100% |
| Faithless Looting | 4.0 | 100% |
| Hollow One | 4.0 | 100% |
| Street Wraith | 4.0 | 100% |
| Mountain | 2.6 | 99% |
| Bloodstained Mire | 3.5 | 98% |
| Burning Inquiry | 4.0 | 97% |
| Marauding Mako | 4.0 | 90% |
| Lightning Bolt | 3.1 | 85% |
| Arid Mesa | 2.7 | 80% |
| Wooded Foothills | 2.4 | 67% |
| Blood Crypt | 3.1 | 62% |
| Raucous Theater | 1.1 | 54% |
| Moonshadow | 4.0 | 52% |
| Nethergoyf | 3.6 | 49% |
| Blazing Rootwalla | 3.9 | 47% |
| Sacred Foundry | 2.9 | 47% |
| Arena of Glory | 1.7 | 46% |
| Ox of Agonas | 1.3 | 45% |
| Vengevine | 4.0 | 45% |
| Elegant Parlor | 1.0 | 45% |
| Practiced Offense | 2.0 | 43% |
| Hardened Academic | 4.0 | 43% |
| Scalding Tarn | 2.8 | 41% |
| Orcish Bowmasters | 3.5 | 39% |
| Fear of Missing Out | 2.4 | 34% |
| Swamp | 1.0 | 32% |
| Fatal Push | 2.2 | 18% |
| Tarfire | 1.9 | 17% |
| Dragon's Rage Channeler | 3.8 | 16% |
| Marsh Flats | 1.5 | 15% |
| Mishra's Bauble | 4.0 | 13% |
| Thoughtseize | 1.4 | 11% |
| Verdant Catacombs | 3.4 | 11% |
| Stomping Ground | 1.9 | 10% |
| Blackcleave Cliffs | 1.5 | 9% |
| Inti, Seneschal of the Sun | 1.2 | 8% |
| Polluted Delta | 1.2 | 8% |
| Mount Doom | 1.0 | 7% |
| Cam and Farrik, Havoc Duo | 1.6 | 6% |
Typical Modern Hollow One sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 157 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 157 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Meltdown | 2.6 | 79% |
| Obsidian Charmaw | 2.2 | 59% |
| Surgical Extraction | 2.3 | 55% |
| Damping Sphere | 2.2 | 52% |
| Wear/Tear | 1.9 | 43% |
| Thoughtseize | 2.5 | 35% |
| Lightning Bolt | 1.3 | 34% |
| Vexing Bauble | 2.3 | 34% |
| Fire Magic | 1.9 | 28% |
| Rough/Tumble | 1.8 | 27% |
| Leyline of the Void | 3.6 | 25% |
| Magebane Lizard | 3.1 | 21% |
| Blood Moon | 2.0 | 19% |
| Fatal Push | 2.1 | 19% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.6 | 15% |
| Faerie Macabre | 2.8 | 12% |
| Pyroclasm | 1.4 | 12% |
| Molten Collapse | 1.0 | 7% |
| Cool but Rude | 1.0 | 6% |
| Deafening Silence | 2.0 | 6% |
| Stony Silence | 2.7 | 6% |
| Fable of the Mirror-Breaker | 2.4 | 6% |
| Soul-Guide Lantern | 1.1 | 6% |
| Rakdos Charm | 1.1 | 5% |
| Untimely Malfunction | 1.1 | 5% |
| Corpse Explosion | 2.4 | 4% |
| Sheoldred's Edict | 1.4 | 4% |
| Force of Despair | 1.5 | 4% |
| Illness in the Ranks | 1.0 | 4% |
| Orim's Chant | 1.8 | 4% |
| Abrade | 1.0 | 3% |
| Brotherhood's End | 1.6 | 3% |
| Feed the Swarm | 1.0 | 3% |
| Mana Tithe | 1.0 | 3% |
| Wrath of the Skies | 2.0 | 3% |
| End of the Hunt | 1.0 | 3% |
| Rough / Tumble | 2.0 | 3% |
| Sheltered by Ghosts | 1.5 | 3% |
| Thraben Charm | 1.0 | 3% |
| Tormod's Crypt | 2.5 | 3% |
Hollow One Modern FAQ
Is Hollow One good in Modern right now?
Yes — and rising fast. Hollow One is 4.5% of Modern decklists in the last two weeks (up 273% vs the prior window), with 1 Challenge win and 5 Top 8s. Best recent finish: 1st (10-0) at Modern Challenge 64 on Jul 20, 2026.
What are the key cards in Modern Hollow One?
Nearly every list runs Detective's Phoenix, Faithless Looting, Hollow One, and Street Wraith (99%+ of Modern Hollow One decklists in the last 90 days). Builds split 73 Rakdos vs 39 Mardu lists.
What's a typical Modern Hollow One sideboard?
The most common Modern Hollow One sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Meltdown (79% of lists), Obsidian Charmaw (59% of lists), Surgical Extraction (55% of lists), and Damping Sphere (52% of lists). Lightning Bolt is the fastest riser, up from 10% to 56% of sideboards.
Are there different builds of Modern Hollow One?
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 Hollow One decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 338 Modern Hollow One decklists all-time (72 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Hollow One result Jul 28, 2026.