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Wizards has held steady around 0.4% of the Modern metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 0.4% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Typical Modern Wizards maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 35 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Flame of Anor | 3.9 | 100% |
| Steam Vents | 3.1 | 100% |
| Thundering Falls | 1.8 | 100% |
| Snapcaster Mage | 3.3 | 97% |
| Scalding Tarn | 3.8 | 94% |
| Island | 3.4 | 91% |
| Lightning Bolt | 2.8 | 91% |
| Counterspell | 3.9 | 89% |
| Polluted Delta | 2.7 | 86% |
| Spell Snare | 2.6 | 80% |
| Force of Negation | 2.7 | 74% |
| Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student | 4.0 | 71% |
| Flooded Strand | 2.2 | 66% |
| Otawara, Soaring City | 1.0 | 63% |
| Subtlety | 3.0 | 63% |
| Galvanic Discharge | 4.0 | 60% |
| Sink into Stupor | 1.5 | 60% |
| Mountain | 1.0 | 54% |
| Traumatic Critique | 3.1 | 54% |
| Thundertrap Trainer | 3.8 | 49% |
| Flare of Denial | 2.6 | 34% |
| Misty Rainforest | 2.1 | 34% |
| Spell Pierce | 1.2 | 29% |
| Lórien Revealed | 3.4 | 26% |
| Logic Knot | 1.0 | 20% |
| Mistrise Village | 1.0 | 20% |
| Prismari Charm | 2.0 | 20% |
| Riverpyre Verge | 1.4 | 20% |
| Undercity Sewers | 1.1 | 20% |
| Unholy Heat | 3.9 | 20% |
| Watery Grave | 2.0 | 20% |
| Consult the Star Charts | 1.5 | 17% |
| Fable of the Mirror-Breaker | 2.0 | 17% |
| Invert Polarity | 1.7 | 17% |
| Mishra's Bauble | 4.0 | 17% |
| Tishana's Tidebinder | 2.0 | 17% |
| Blood Crypt | 1.0 | 14% |
| Fatal Push | 3.0 | 14% |
| Flow State | 2.0 | 14% |
| Kolaghan's Command | 2.8 | 14% |
Typical Modern Wizards sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 35 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 35 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Consign to Memory | 3.6 | 100% |
| Meltdown | 2.0 | 66% |
| Mystical Dispute | 2.5 | 57% |
| Fire Magic | 1.5 | 54% |
| Blood Moon | 1.8 | 37% |
| Brotherhood's End | 1.5 | 31% |
| Obsidian Charmaw | 2.3 | 29% |
| Surgical Extraction | 1.7 | 29% |
| Spell Snare | 1.1 | 26% |
| Soul-Guide Lantern | 2.1 | 23% |
| Dress Down | 1.9 | 20% |
| Engineered Explosives | 1.0 | 20% |
| Flusterstorm | 1.3 | 17% |
| Test of Talents | 1.8 | 14% |
| Fatal Push | 2.0 | 11% |
| Ghost Vacuum | 2.0 | 11% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 2.0 | 11% |
| Vexing Bauble | 2.3 | 11% |
| Bonecrusher Giant | 1.3 | 9% |
| Lightning Bolt | 1.0 | 9% |
| Pyroclasm | 2.0 | 9% |
| Damping Sphere | 2.0 | 6% |
| Emrakul, the Aeons Torn | 1.0 | 6% |
| Force of Despair | 2.0 | 6% |
| Force of Negation | 1.0 | 6% |
| Harbinger of the Seas | 2.0 | 6% |
| Hidetsugu Consumes All | 3.0 | 6% |
| High Noon | 2.0 | 6% |
| Invert Polarity | 1.0 | 6% |
| Izzet Staticaster | 2.0 | 6% |
| Minor Misstep | 2.0 | 6% |
| Sheoldred, the Apocalypse | 2.0 | 6% |
| Sheoldred's Edict | 2.0 | 6% |
| Spell Pierce | 1.5 | 6% |
| Stern Scolding | 1.0 | 6% |
| Sudden Edict | 2.0 | 6% |
| Thoughtseize | 2.0 | 6% |
| Veil of Summer | 2.0 | 6% |
| Boseiju, Who Endures | 1.0 | 3% |
| Chalice of the Void | 1.0 | 3% |
Wizards Modern FAQ
Is Wizards good in Modern right now?
Wizards is 0.4% of Modern decklists in the last two weeks. Best recent finish: 10th (4-2) at Modern Challenge 64 on Jul 26, 2026.
What are the key cards in Modern Wizards?
The most-played cards are Flame of Anor (100% of lists), Snapcaster Mage (97% of lists), and Lightning Bolt (91% of lists) over the last 90 days. Builds split 22 Izzet vs 7 Grixis lists.
What's a typical Modern Wizards sideboard?
The most common Modern Wizards sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Consign to Memory (100% of lists), Meltdown (66% of lists), Mystical Dispute (57% of lists), and Fire Magic (54% of lists).
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 Wizards decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 169 Modern Wizards decklists all-time (6 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Wizards result Jul 26, 2026.