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Vexing Bauble

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

588

Decks Running

318

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

129 instances

2.3%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

44.2%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 18 decks
2 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 16 decks
3 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 13 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 11 decks
5 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 10 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 9 decks
7 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 9 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 7 decks
9 Toph, the First Metalbender 7 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

588 brought · 251 players

Brought to game

588

Ever drawn

117

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=74) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=315).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=17).

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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=92

46%

11%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 2.5 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 46% (42 / 92 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 88%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.