[Staples] - General

[xTrainx]

So, I was thinking the other day: Generally, what cards do you see recurring in almost every magic deck?

FoW, Top, CB, duals...Any others?

[Ectoplasm]

Brainstorm, plow, Tarmogoyf, Dark Confidant, Thoughtseize, Daze, Stifle, Counterbalance

[Wargoos]

Brainstorm, FoW, Goyf -> Tropical -> Delta,Strand
CB, SDT, Swords > Tundra -> Delta, Strand

[paK0]

Tormod's Crypt, Krosan Grip

[Julian23]

Soon it will be Lace with Moonglove. Besides that its:

1. Fetchlands
2. Duallands
3. Brainstorm
4. Force of Will

[DrJones]

Taken directly from Deckcheck, the top 50 most played cards in the format:

# 9432 Force of Will
# 9206 Brainstorm
# 8111 Island
# 7955 Wasteland
# 7383 Flooded Strand
# 7229 Mountain
# 7205 Tarmogoyf
# 6940 Polluted Delta
# 6749 Swords to Plowshares
# 4979 Daze
# 4891 Tropical Island
# 4877 Wooded Foothills
# 4551 Forest
# 3971 Swamp
# 3815 Tundra
# 3721 Plains
# 3663 Bloodstained Mire
# 3651 Windswept Heath
# 3509 Dark Confidant
# 3483 Mishra's Factory
# 3438 Stifle
# 3231 Lightning Bolt
# 3192 Aether Vial
# 3187 Underground Sea
# 2930 Ponder
# 2913 Counterspell
# 2828 Standstill
# 2730 Sensei's Divining Top
# 2609 Taiga
# 2376 Nimble Mongoose
# 2361 Mogg Fanatic
# 2266 Spell Snare
# 2180 Bayou
# 2131 Thoughtseize
# 2105 Counterbalance
# Sideboard:
# 5307 Krosan Grip
# 5242 Tormod's Crypt
# 3655 Pithing Needle
# 2660 Engineered Plague
# 2573 Extirpate
# 2546 Blue Elemental Blast
# 1942 Leyline of the Void
# 1882 Red Elemental Blast
# 1861 Hydroblast
# 1609 Pyroclasm
# 1468 Meddling Mage
# 1425 Engineered Explosives
# 1319 Chalice of the Void
# 1209 Pyroblast
# 1109 Relic of Progenitus

EDIT: No Dark Ritual in the Top 50.

[Dan Turner]

remove mogg fanatic from the list above it just became one of the top 50 least played cards in the format.

[That kid you all hate]

remove mogg fanatic from the list above it just became one of the top 50 least played cards in the game.

fixed

[Ch@os]

remove mogg fanatic from the list above it just became one of the top 50 least played cards in the battlefield.

fixed

[Barsoom]

Better if you post the most used Sideboard cards too:

# 5307 Krosan Grip
# 5242 Tormod's Crypt
# 3655 Pithing Needle
# 2660 Engineered Plague
# 2573 Extirpate
# 2546 Blue Elemental Blast
# 1942 Leyline of the Void
# 1882 Red Elemental Blast
# 1861 Hydroblast
# 1609 Pyroclasm
# 1468 Meddling Mage
# 1425 Engineered Explosives
# 1319 Chalice of the Void
# 1209 Pyroblast
# 1109 Relic of Progenitus

[Ectoplasm]

Better if you post the most used Sideboard cards too:

# 5307 Krosan Grip
# 5242 Tormod's Crypt
# 3655 Pithing Needle
# 2660 Engineered Plague
# 2573 Extirpate
# 2546 Blue Elemental Blast
# 1942 Leyline of the Void
# 1882 Red Elemental Blast
# 1861 Hydroblast
# 1609 Pyroclasm
# 1468 Meddling Mage
# 1425 Engineered Explosives
# 1319 Chalice of the Void
# 1209 Pyroblast
# 1109 Relic of Progenitus

He did

[Tacosnape]

I think it's really really telling of just how this format works that excluding Force of Will, which has an alternate cost and essentiaqlly costs 0, there isn't a single card on the maindeck list that doesn't have a CMC of 2 or less.

[quicksilver]

Soon it will be Lace with Moonglove.

How does Lace with Moonglove change with the new rules?

[mujadaddy]

How does Lace with Moonglove change with the new rules?

The snarky commentary on the new combat step changes is that Lace w/ Moonglove reads: "Go back to the old combat procedures."

[AngryTroll]

Taken directly from Deckcheck, the top 50 most played cards in the format:

# 8111 Island
# 7955 Wasteland
# 7383 Flooded Strand
# 7229 Mountain
(# 7205 Tarmogoyf)
# 6940 Polluted Delta
# 4891 Tropical Island
# 4877 Wooded Foothills
# 4551 Forest
# 3971 Swamp
# 3815 Tundra
# 3721 Plains
# 3663 Bloodstained Mire
# 3651 Windswept Heath
# 3483 Mishra's Factory
# 3187 Underground Sea
# 2609 Taiga
# 2180 Bayou

Where are all of those basic Islands coming from? Merfolk? Weird; I'd expect more Strands and Deltas than Islands.

Also, more Mountains than Tarmogoyfs, Tropical Islands, and Polluted Deltas? Weird. Goblins, Imperial Painter, and Dragon Stompy, I guess? "You forgot Burn!!" ~NC, with a joke that wasn't that funny in 2004 either.

[xTrainx]

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that if I got x4 Tendrils for three bucks, that was good?
Don't fail me now eBay.

[from Cairo]

Where are all of those basic Islands coming from? Merfolk? Weird; I'd expect more Strands and Deltas than Islands.

Also, more Mountains than Tarmogoyfs, Tropical Islands, and Polluted Deltas?

Yea I'd imagine it's the fact that the Tribal decks are running 10+ of their basics, so Tarmogoyfs and Trops are probably still out numbering them in terms of UG decks > Red decks. It's just that 1 Goblins deck with 12 Mountains is equal to 3 UG decks with 4 Goyf and 4 Trops in terms of the cards being represented.

[Skeggi]

Taken directly from Deckcheck, the top 50 most played cards in the format:

Does this list containt the 50 most occuring card in their database? Or just something like the last 3 months? Because ofcourse, if it contains information from 2004, it may be a bit out of date ;)

[DrJones]

I can't tell it because I don't know the inner workings of Deck Check. I assume it's the top 50 of the entire legacy database, which only shows Top 8 figures and it's probably skewed towards an american meta. I have tried to refine the search before pasting the results, but there doesn't seem to be any option to do it.