Modern Lantern Control
Lantern Control is a Modern control strategy that usually features Codex Shredder, Ensnaring Bridge, and Grafdigger's Cage. Recent lists are split between Dimir and Rakdos builds.
Meta
0.1%
Colors
Shift
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Variability
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13 decks in Dimir
| Date | View Decklist | Player | Event | Place | Record | Uniqueness | Colors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26 | View | Awalps | Modern League | — | 5-0 | — | |
| Jul 25 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 | 24th | 3-3 | — | |
| Jul 12 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 | 7th | 5-2 | — | |
| Jun 20 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 | 24th | 3-3 | — | |
| Jun 13 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 | 13th | 4-2 | Familiar · band 3 of 10 · 3 | |
| Jun 7 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 | 17th | 3-3 | Familiar · band 3 of 10 · 3 | |
| Jun 7 | View | Elkhorn | Modern League | — | 5-0 | Typical · band 2 of 10 · 2 | |
| May 31 | View | Fateseal_MTG | Modern League | — | 5-0 | Distinct · band 7 of 10 · 7 | |
| May 16 | View | Elkhorn | Modern Challenge 32 2026-05-16 | 14th | — | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| May 16 | View | Elkhorn | Modern Challenge 32 | 14th | 4-2 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| May 11 | View | Elkhorn | Modern Challenge 32 | 19th | 4-2 | Distinct · band 7 of 10 · 7 | |
| Mar 7 | View | Elkhorn | Modern Challenge 32 | 31st | 2-4 | — | |
| Mar 7 | View | Elkhorn | Modern Challenge 32 2026-03-07 | 31st | — | — |
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Lantern Control 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 Lantern Control maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 18 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Codex Shredder | 3.9 | 100% |
| Ensnaring Bridge | 3.9 | 100% |
| Grafdigger's Cage | 1.0 | 100% |
| Inquisition of Kozilek | 3.9 | 100% |
| Lantern of Insight | 3.7 | 100% |
| Mox Opal | 2.8 | 100% |
| Pithing Needle | 2.4 | 100% |
| Pyxis of Pandemonium | 2.1 | 100% |
| The Underworld Cookbook | 1.0 | 100% |
| Thoughtseize | 4.0 | 100% |
| Torpor Orb | 1.3 | 100% |
| Urza's Saga | 4.0 | 100% |
| Darkslick Shores | 4.0 | 61% |
| Island | 3.0 | 61% |
| River of Tears | 3.7 | 61% |
| Whir of Invention | 4.0 | 61% |
| Academy Ruins | 1.0 | 56% |
| Narset, Parter of Veils | 3.0 | 56% |
| Scalding Tarn | 1.0 | 56% |
| Watery Grave | 1.8 | 56% |
| Disruptor Flute | 1.0 | 44% |
| Blackcleave Cliffs | 4.0 | 39% |
| Blood Crypt | 1.0 | 39% |
| Blood Moon | 3.9 | 39% |
| Bloodstained Mire | 4.0 | 39% |
| Molten Collapse | 1.0 | 39% |
| Mountain | 1.0 | 39% |
| Profane Tutor | 4.0 | 39% |
| Swamp | 4.0 | 39% |
| The Mycosynth Gardens | 2.0 | 39% |
| Blazemire Verge | 1.0 | 33% |
| Cursed Totem | 1.0 | 33% |
| Flooded Strand | 1.0 | 33% |
| Misty Rainforest | 1.0 | 33% |
| Mishra's Bauble | 3.0 | 28% |
| Vexing Bauble | 1.0 | 17% |
| Drown in the Loch | 2.0 | 11% |
| Erode | 1.0 | 6% |
| Ghoulcaller's Bell | 1.0 | 6% |
| Glimmervoid | 1.0 | 6% |
Typical Modern Lantern Control sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 18 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 18 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Soulless Jailer | 2.4 | 100% |
| Void Mirror | 1.1 | 100% |
| Ashiok, Dream Render | 2.2 | 94% |
| Cursed Totem | 1.0 | 89% |
| Emrakul, the Aeons Torn | 1.0 | 72% |
| Torpor Orb | 1.0 | 67% |
| Vexing Bauble | 1.0 | 61% |
| Damping Sphere | 1.0 | 56% |
| Welding Jar | 1.4 | 50% |
| Fatal Push | 2.0 | 39% |
| Pyroclasm | 3.0 | 39% |
| Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos | 1.0 | 39% |
| Duress | 2.0 | 33% |
| Harbinger of the Seas | 2.0 | 28% |
| Pithing Needle | 1.0 | 28% |
| Surgical Extraction | 1.0 | 28% |
| Grafdigger's Cage | 1.0 | 22% |
| Amulet of Safekeeping | 1.0 | 11% |
| Bloodchief's Thirst | 2.0 | 6% |
| Bontu's Last Reckoning | 1.0 | 6% |
| Consign to Memory | 3.0 | 6% |
| Drown in the Loch | 1.0 | 6% |
| Erode | 1.0 | 6% |
| Feed the Cycle | 2.0 | 6% |
| Magus of the Moon | 1.0 | 6% |
| Tear Asunder | 2.0 | 6% |