Here's a full breakdown! Note up front: this tool provides tournament data analysis, not strategic advice — the sideboard guide below is derived entirely from what the data shows players bringing in/out, not hand-crafted strategy.
🔥 Modern Prowess — Current Shell (Last 30 Days)
Overall winrate: 49.8% | 176 entries across 69 tournaments
📋 Core Maindeck (Near-Universal)
| Card | Copies | Presence |
|---|
| Cori-Steel Cutter | 4 | 100% |
| Dragon's Rage Channeler | 4 | 100% |
| Lightning Bolt | 4 | 100% |
| Mishra's Bauble | ~4 | 100% |
| Lava Dart | ~4 | 100% |
| Monastery Swiftspear | ~4 | 99% |
| Preordain | ~4 | 99% |
| Expressive Iteration | ~4 | 95% |
| Slickshot Show-Off | ~4 | 91% |
| Mutagenic Growth | ~3.4 | 91% |
| Violent Urge | ~1.5 | 85% |
Lands: Steam Vents (3.1), Bloodstained Mire (2.8), Fiery Islet (1.8), Scalding Tarn (2.7), Wooded Foothills (2.4), Arid Mesa (2.3), Mountain (2.8), Thundering Falls (1.0)
Flex slots (~15-25% of lists): Flashback, Unholy Heat, Stormchaser's Talent
🛡️ Sideboard Guide (Data-Driven)
Top sideboard cards across the meta:
- Consign to Memory — 3.5 avg, 99% of sideboards
- Unholy Heat — 3.2 avg, 98% of sideboards
- Meltdown — 1.8 avg, 89% of sideboards
- Spell Pierce — 1.6 avg, 81% of sideboards
- Murktide Regent — 1.2 avg, 65% of sideboards
- Surgical Extraction — 1.5 avg, 57% of sideboards
- Spell Snare — 1.7 avg, 39% of sideboards
- Tormod's Crypt — 1.7 avg, 33% of sideboards
- Into the Flood Maw — 1.2 avg, 27% of sideboards
- Mystical Dispute — 1.7 avg, 22% of sideboards
⚔️ Matchup Sideboard Guide
✅ Boros Energy — 55% WR (Favored)
Resilient combat deck, watch for Leyline of Sanctity effects
- IN: Unholy Heat (2-3), Spell Pierce (1-2), Murktide Regent (1-2)
- OUT: Mutagenic Growth (2), Violent Urge (1-2), Mishra's Bauble (1)
✅ Ruby Storm — 57% WR (Favored)
Race them, use counters to disrupt combo turn
- IN: Consign to Memory (3-4), Spell Pierce (2), Spell Snare (1-2)
- OUT: Lava Dart (3-4), Unholy Heat (flex), Violent Urge (1-2)
✅ Broodscale — 64% WR (Heavily Favored)
Your burn and pressure lines up well
- IN: Unholy Heat (2), Spell Snare (1), Spell Pierce (1)
- OUT: Violent Urge (2), Mishra's Bauble (1)
✅ Living End — 52% WR (Slight Edge)
Disrupt cascade/cycling, Surgical is key
- IN: Consign to Memory (3-4), Surgical Extraction (2), Spell Snare (2)
- OUT: Lava Dart (3), Mutagenic Growth (2), Violent Urge (1)
✅ Grixis Reanimator — 52% WR (Slight Edge)
Hate the graveyard early
- IN: Surgical Extraction (2), Tormod's Crypt (2), Consign to Memory (1-2)
- OUT: Violent Urge (2), Lava Dart (2), Mishra's Bauble (1)
⚖️ Tron — 46% WR (Slight Dog)
Race them before Tron assembles
- IN: Spell Pierce (2), Consign to Memory (2), Into the Flood Maw (1-2)
- OUT: Lava Dart (3-4), Violent Urge (2)
⚖️ Azorius Control — 45% WR (Slight Dog)
Flood maw to push damage through counterspells
- IN: Murktide Regent (2), Spell Pierce (2), Mystical Dispute (2), Into the Flood Maw (1)
- OUT: Lava Dart (3-4), Mutagenic Growth (2), Violent Urge (1)
❌ Goryo's Reanimator — 40% WR (Unfavored)
Hard to race, prioritize graveyard disruption
- IN: Surgical Extraction (2), Tormod's Crypt (2), Consign to Memory (3)
- OUT: Violent Urge (2), Lava Dart (3), Mishra's Bauble (1)
❌ Affinity — 37% WR (Bad Matchup)
Meltdown is your best card — find it
- IN: Meltdown (3-4), Unholy Heat (3), Consign to Memory (2)
- OUT: Preordain (2-3), Violent Urge (2), Expressive Iteration (1)
❌ Amulet Titan — 33% WR (Bad Matchup)
Very hard to race Titan; Consign/Pierce to delay
- IN: Spell Pierce (2), Consign to Memory (3), Into the Flood Maw (1-2)
- OUT: Lava Dart (4), Mishra's Bauble (2)
📊 Sources
Data from 71 tournaments (last 30 days): 66% MTGO / 34% Paper (Melee)