Premodern Rock
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Rock has slipped from ~1.5% to 0.6% of the Premodern metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Slipped from ~1.5% to 0.6% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Typical Premodern Rock maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 43 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Duress | 3.6 | 100% |
| Forest | 7.3 | 100% |
| Llanowar Wastes | 4.0 | 100% |
| Pernicious Deed | 3.9 | 100% |
| Swamp | 7.4 | 100% |
| Cabal Therapy | 3.9 | 98% |
| Treetop Village | 3.8 | 98% |
| Smother | 2.8 | 95% |
| Wall of Blossoms | 3.4 | 86% |
| Wall of Roots | 3.6 | 86% |
| Dust Bowl | 2.4 | 77% |
| Genesis | 1.6 | 77% |
| Krosan Tusker | 2.7 | 77% |
| Ravenous Baloth | 3.3 | 53% |
| Phyrexian Furnace | 2.1 | 47% |
| Nantuko Vigilante | 2.4 | 37% |
| Yavimaya Elder | 3.0 | 37% |
| Diabolic Edict | 1.8 | 28% |
| Ravenous Rats | 2.9 | 28% |
| Blastoderm | 2.5 | 26% |
| Graveborn Muse | 2.1 | 23% |
| Call of the Herd | 3.0 | 21% |
| Spiritmonger | 1.8 | 21% |
| Birds of Paradise | 2.9 | 16% |
| Gigapede | 1.0 | 12% |
| Natural Order | 3.0 | 12% |
| Recurring Nightmare | 1.8 | 12% |
| Verdant Force | 1.4 | 12% |
| Pine Barrens | 1.5 | 9% |
| Reflecting Pool | 1.0 | 9% |
| Snuff Out | 1.0 | 9% |
| Sylvan Library | 1.8 | 9% |
| Volrath's Stronghold | 1.0 | 9% |
| Withered Wretch | 2.3 | 9% |
| Chainer's Edict | 1.7 | 7% |
| Deranged Hermit | 1.7 | 7% |
| Haunting Echoes | 1.0 | 7% |
| Uktabi Orangutan | 1.0 | 7% |
| Undead Gladiator | 2.0 | 7% |
| Bane of the Living | 2.0 | 5% |
Typical Premodern Rock sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 43 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 43 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Naturalize | 2.6 | 98% |
| Engineered Plague | 3.6 | 77% |
| Tranquil Domain | 1.9 | 67% |
| Ravenous Baloth | 2.1 | 65% |
| Haunting Echoes | 1.6 | 53% |
| Gaea's Blessing | 1.7 | 49% |
| Tormod's Crypt | 2.3 | 47% |
| Vendetta | 1.6 | 33% |
| Blastoderm | 1.8 | 28% |
| Snuff Out | 1.0 | 26% |
| Compost | 1.6 | 23% |
| Phyrexian Furnace | 1.5 | 19% |
| Duress | 1.0 | 12% |
| Gloom | 2.2 | 12% |
| Uktabi Orangutan | 1.8 | 12% |
| Bone Shredder | 1.8 | 9% |
| Dust Bowl | 1.0 | 9% |
| Smother | 1.0 | 9% |
| Bottle Gnomes | 1.3 | 7% |
| Cabal Therapy | 1.0 | 7% |
| Gigapede | 1.0 | 7% |
| Plaguebearer | 1.0 | 7% |
| Skeletal Scrying | 1.0 | 7% |
| Genesis | 1.0 | 5% |
| Infest | 1.5 | 5% |
| Nantuko Vigilante | 1.5 | 5% |
| Natural Order | 3.0 | 5% |
| Sylvan Library | 1.5 | 5% |
| Verdant Force | 2.0 | 5% |
| Absolute Law | 2.0 | 2% |
| Aura of Silence | 2.0 | 2% |
| Braids, Cabal Minion | 1.0 | 2% |
| Diabolic Edict | 1.0 | 2% |
| Hidden Gibbons | 2.0 | 2% |
| Pernicious Deed | 2.0 | 2% |
| Ray of Revelation | 1.0 | 2% |
| Reverent Silence | 1.0 | 2% |
| Sphere of Law | 2.0 | 2% |
| Spike Feeder | 2.0 | 2% |
| Tsabo's Web | 2.0 | 2% |
Rock Premodern FAQ
Is Rock good in Premodern right now?
Rock is 0.6% of Premodern decklists in the last two weeks, with 1 Top 8. Best recent finish: 5th (6-1) at Premodern Challenge 32 on Jul 23, 2026.
What are the key cards in Premodern Rock?
Nearly every list runs Duress and Pernicious Deed (99%+ of Premodern Rock decklists in the last 90 days). Approaches split Nantuko Vigilante (11 lists) vs Call of the Herd (9).
What's a typical Premodern Rock sideboard?
The most common Premodern Rock sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Naturalize (98% of lists), Engineered Plague (77% of lists), Tranquil Domain (67% of lists), and Ravenous Baloth (65% of lists).
Are there different builds of Premodern Rock?
Recent lists split into Nantuko Vigilante, Call of the Herd, Blastoderm, and Natural Order approaches.
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 Rock decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 153 Premodern Rock decklists all-time (2 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Rock result Jul 25, 2026.