Premodern BG Survival
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BG Survival has held steady around 0.6% of the Premodern metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 0.6% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Typical Premodern BG Survival maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 20 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Birds of Paradise | 4.0 | 100% |
| Forest | 8.8 | 100% |
| Genesis | 1.0 | 100% |
| Squee, Goblin Nabob | 1.1 | 100% |
| Survival of the Fittest | 4.0 | 100% |
| Nantuko Vigilante | 1.2 | 95% |
| Wall of Blossoms | 3.4 | 95% |
| Cabal Therapy | 3.2 | 85% |
| Deranged Hermit | 1.7 | 85% |
| Llanowar Wastes | 4.0 | 85% |
| Swamp | 4.5 | 85% |
| Wall of Roots | 3.7 | 85% |
| Bone Shredder | 1.0 | 80% |
| Duress | 3.2 | 75% |
| Masticore | 1.0 | 75% |
| Ravenous Baloth | 1.0 | 70% |
| Withered Wretch | 1.1 | 70% |
| Mesmeric Fiend | 1.0 | 65% |
| Gaea's Cradle | 1.5 | 60% |
| Graveborn Muse | 1.0 | 60% |
| Recurring Nightmare | 1.8 | 55% |
| Tempting Wurm | 1.0 | 40% |
| Uktabi Orangutan | 1.0 | 35% |
| City of Brass | 1.7 | 30% |
| Living Death | 1.0 | 30% |
| Naturalize | 2.0 | 30% |
| Yavimaya Elder | 1.2 | 30% |
| Llanowar Elves | 2.2 | 25% |
| Plague Spitter | 1.0 | 25% |
| Spike Feeder | 1.0 | 25% |
| Yavimaya Granger | 1.0 | 25% |
| Basking Rootwalla | 2.3 | 20% |
| Dust Bowl | 1.0 | 20% |
| Fyndhorn Elves | 1.3 | 20% |
| Quirion Ranger | 1.5 | 20% |
| Thornscape Battlemage | 1.0 | 20% |
| Windswept Heath | 3.8 | 20% |
| Anger | 1.0 | 15% |
| Caves of Koilos | 1.0 | 15% |
| Darigaaz's Caldera | 1.0 | 15% |
Typical Premodern BG Survival sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 20 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 20 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Naturalize | 2.4 | 95% |
| Engineered Plague | 2.9 | 80% |
| Smother | 2.9 | 50% |
| Spike Feeder | 1.1 | 45% |
| Uktabi Orangutan | 1.0 | 45% |
| Tormod's Crypt | 2.5 | 40% |
| Tsabo's Web | 1.7 | 35% |
| Withered Wretch | 1.0 | 35% |
| Phantom Centaur | 1.0 | 30% |
| Sadistic Hypnotist | 1.0 | 30% |
| Tempting Wurm | 1.2 | 30% |
| Cabal Therapy | 1.0 | 25% |
| Faceless Butcher | 1.0 | 25% |
| Bone Shredder | 1.0 | 20% |
| Duress | 1.0 | 20% |
| Plaguebearer | 1.0 | 20% |
| Caller of the Claw | 1.0 | 15% |
| Nantuko Vigilante | 1.0 | 15% |
| Radiant's Dragoons | 1.0 | 15% |
| Ray of Revelation | 2.0 | 15% |
| Swords to Plowshares | 2.0 | 15% |
| Blastoderm | 1.0 | 10% |
| Diabolic Edict | 2.0 | 10% |
| Dust Bowl | 1.0 | 10% |
| Flametongue Kavu | 1.0 | 10% |
| Krosan Cloudscraper | 1.0 | 10% |
| Krosan Reclamation | 2.0 | 10% |
| Mesmeric Fiend | 1.0 | 10% |
| Plague Spitter | 1.0 | 10% |
| Spike Weaver | 1.0 | 10% |
| Ticking Gnomes | 2.0 | 10% |
| Tranquil Domain | 1.5 | 10% |
| Xantid Swarm | 1.0 | 10% |
| Avalanche Riders | 1.0 | 5% |
| Call of the Herd | 1.0 | 5% |
| Calming Verse | 1.0 | 5% |
| Firestorm | 1.0 | 5% |
| Gaea's Blessing | 1.0 | 5% |
| Gigapede | 1.0 | 5% |
| Goblin Bombardment | 1.0 | 5% |
BG Survival Premodern FAQ
Is BG Survival good in Premodern right now?
BG Survival is 0.6% of Premodern decklists in the last two weeks. Best recent finish: 9th (4-2) at Premodern Challenge 32 on Jul 25, 2026.
What are the key cards in Premodern BG Survival?
Nearly every list runs Birds of Paradise, Genesis, Squee, Goblin Nabob, and Survival of the Fittest (99%+ of Premodern BG Survival decklists in the last 90 days).
What's a typical Premodern BG Survival sideboard?
The most common Premodern BG Survival sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Naturalize (95% of lists), Engineered Plague (80% of lists), Smother (50% of lists), and Spike Feeder (45% 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 Premodern BG Survival decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 59 Premodern BG Survival decklists all-time (2 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest BG Survival result Jul 25, 2026.