List of Modern Staples and Power Cards

Modern* Five Color

DukeNicky

Instant (70)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ancient Grudge
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Annul
• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Bituminous Blast
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Combust
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Dimir Charm
• 1x Disfigure
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Electrolyze
• 1x Esper Charm
• 1x Extirpate
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Gifts Ungiven
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Goryo's Vengeance
• 1x Grixis Charm
• 1x Groundswell
• 1x Gruul Charm
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Jund Charm
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Manamorphose
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Naya Charm
• 1x Negate
• 1x Orzhov Charm
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Raise the Alarm
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Remand
• 1x Searing Blaze
• 1x Searing Spear
• 1x Selesnya Charm
• 1x Silence
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Skullcrack
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Smash to Smithereens
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Surgical Extraction
• 2x Telling Time
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Unified Will
• 1x Volcanic Fallout
• 1x Zealous Persecution

Sorcery (45)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Ancient Stirrings
• 1x Arc Trail
• 1x Blightning
• 1x Bonfire of the Damned
• 1x Bump in the Night
• 1x Creeping Corrosion
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Duress
• 1x Explore
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Lava Spike
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living End
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Molten Rain
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Pillar of Flame
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Rift Bolt
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Slaughter Games
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Sowing Salt
• 1x Spectral Procession
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Timely Reinforcements
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Favorable Winds
• 1x Honor of the Pure
• 2x Leyline of the Void
• 1x March of the Machines
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Pyromancer Ascension
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Splinter Twin
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Tempered Steel
• 1x Threads of Disloyalty

Artifact (34)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Elsewhere Flask
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Vedalken Shackles
• 1x Welding Jar

Planeswalker (19)

• 1x Ajani Goldmane
• 1x Ajani Vengeant
• 1x Domri Rade
• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Gideon Jura
• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought
• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Koth of the Hammer
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Sarkhan Vol
• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (81)

• 1x Arcbound Ravager
• 1x Auriok Champion
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Baneslayer Angel
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cloudgoat Ranger
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Delver of Secrets  ^Flip
• 1x Doran, the Siege Tower
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
• 1x Etched Champion
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 1x Figure of Destiny
• 1x Frogmite
• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Geist of Saint Traft
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Goblin Guide
• 1x Grim Lavamancer
• 1x Griselbrand
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Hellspark Elemental
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Kor Firewalker
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Master of Etherium
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Mirran Crusader
• 1x Murderous Redcap
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Obstinate Baloth
• 1x Olivia Voldaren
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Orzhov Pontiff
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Crusader
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Plated Geopede
• 1x Puresteel Paladin
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Signal Pest
• 1x Silverblade Paladin
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Squadron Hawk
• 1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
• 1x Steel Overseer
• 1x Stormblood Berserker
• 1x Tarmogoyf
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Vault Skirge
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Voice of Resurgence
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (106)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Copperline Gorge
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Duskmantle, House of Shadow
• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forbidding Watchtower
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Ghitu Encampment
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 2x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
• 1x Novijen, Heart of Progress
• 1x Orzhova, the Church of Deals
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Prahv, Spires of Order
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Spawning Pool
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stensia Bloodhall
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Treetop Village
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windbrisk Heights
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

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Similar to Epochalyptik's list of EDH power and staple cards. I have concocted a list of all the staples and power cards for the Modern format. Why, because I love this format quite a bit and wanted to have this down for all to see and add onto. I chose the deck list for the same reasons as Epoc did his EDH one. It is easy for all to find and see, comment, deckcycle, and to find. I just threw this together in the wee hours of the am so some things may be missing, but that's why this is a communal deck list.

If a card has not been included that you think deserves consideration, please state why you think that card should be on the list.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	59 - 0 Mythic Rares 158 - 0 Rares 104 - 0 Uncommons 50 - 0 Commons
Cards	371
Avg. CMC	2.82
Tokens	*/* W Creature Avatar, Angel 4/4 W, Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Dragon 4/4 R, Elemental */* GW, Emblem Domri Rade, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Emblem Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Kithkin Soldier 1/1 W, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Vampire 1/1 B w/ Lifelink, Wolf 2/2 G, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Wurm 6/6 G
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