Live Play Data

Vexing Bauble

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

660

Decks Running

336

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=120

29%

13%

10%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 29% (35 / 120 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 76%

The "good card" funnel

660 brought · 271 players

Brought to game

660

Ever drawn

162

Reached battlefield

120

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 31% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=114) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=406).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=37).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +13.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

187 instances

6.4%

Library

19.8%

Battlefield

46.5%

Graveyard

11.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Vexing Bauble

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. {1}

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Tony Foti

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.