This list was built by scraping 477 Pauper decks from
MTG Goldfish tournament results
posted between January 1 and February 14, 2026.
A custom Python scraper (scrape_decks.py) crawled MTG Goldfish tournament pages, followed links to individual deck pages, and parsed each decklist.
Card names and quantities were extracted from the HTML deck input fields. Decks with fewer than 40 parsed cards were discarded.
Deck penetration % = percentage of all 477 decks that include at least one copy of the card.
Avg copies = average number of copies in the decks that run the card (e.g. 4.00 means it's always a 4-of).
Mainboard and sideboard cards are combined. The blast/elemental blast cycle dominates because they appear as 2-3 copy sideboard staples across many archetypes.
A second dataset from MTG Top 8 (140 decks) was also scraped and cross-validated. Pearson correlation between the two sources is 0.87, confirming these rankings are robust.
Card names link to Scryfall. Card images are loaded from the Scryfall API on demand.