Modern Lantern Control
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| Date | View Decklist | Player | Event | Place | Record | Uniqueness | Colors |
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| Mar 22 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 | 25th | 3-3 | — | |
| Mar 9 | View | Fateseal_MTG | Modern Challenge 32 2026-03-09 | 25th | 4-3 | — | |
| Mar 7 | View | Elkhorn | Modern Challenge 32 2026-03-07 | 31st | — | — | |
| Mar 7 | View | Elkhorn | Modern Challenge 32 | 31st | 2-4 | — | |
| Feb 8 | View | Zyxia | Modern League 2026-02-08 | — | 5-0 | — | |
| Jan 26 | View | LJ_LAWDOG | Modern Challenge 32 | 27th | 3-3 | — | |
| Nov 29, 2025 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 2025-11-29 | 17th | — | — | |
| Nov 23, 2025 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 2025-11-23 | 5th | — | — | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | View | hawk26 | Modern Challenge 32 2025-09-06 | 22nd | — | — | |
| Aug 26, 2025 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern League 2025-08-26 | — | 5-0 | — | |
| Aug 23, 2025 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 32 2025-08-23 | 31st | — | — | |
| Aug 18, 2025 | View | Fateseal_MTG | Modern Challenge 64 2025-08-18 | 25th | — | — | |
| Aug 2, 2025 | View | Taddy_99 | Modern Challenge 64 2025-08-02 | 22nd | — | — | |
| Jul 30, 2025 | View | sfitz | Modern League 2025-07-30 | — | 5-0 | — | |
| Jul 30, 2025 | View | AngledLuffa | Modern League 2025-07-30 | — | 5-0 | — | |
| Jul 29, 2025 | View | l2eesik1 | Modern League 2025-07-29 | — | 5-0 | — |
Showing 26–41 of 41 all-time decklists
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% |
Lantern Control Modern FAQ
Is Lantern Control good in Modern right now?
Lantern Control is 0.1% of Modern decklists in the last two weeks. Best recent finish: 24th (3-3) at Modern Challenge 32 on Jul 25, 2026.
What are the key cards in Modern Lantern Control?
Nearly every list runs Codex Shredder, Ensnaring Bridge, Grafdigger's Cage, and Inquisition of Kozilek (99%+ of Modern Lantern Control decklists in the last 90 days). Builds split 8 Dimir vs 5 Rakdos lists.
What's a typical Modern Lantern Control sideboard?
The most common Modern Lantern Control sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Soulless Jailer (100% of lists), Void Mirror (100% of lists), Ashiok, Dream Render (94% of lists), and Cursed Totem (89% of lists).
Are there different builds of Modern Lantern Control?
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 Lantern Control decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 41 Modern Lantern Control decklists all-time (2 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Lantern Control result Jul 26, 2026.