Live Play Data

Vexing Puzzlebox

· Artifact · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

364

Decks Running

186

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=61

26%

15%

26%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 33% (16 / 61 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

364 brought · 159 players

Brought to game

364

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=58) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=232).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=20).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +16.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

2.2%

Library

51.1%

Battlefield

23.3%

Graveyard

1.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 109 decks
2 Wyll, Blade of Frontiers 17 decks
3 The Most Dangerous Gamer 7 decks
4 Farideh, Devil's Chosen 2 decks
5 Sin, Unending Cataclysm 2 decks
6 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 2 decks
7 Zo-Zu the Punisher 2 decks
8 Astarion, the Decadent 1 decks
9 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 1 decks
10 Baral, Chief of Compliance 1 decks

Card text

Vexing Puzzlebox

Artifact

Whenever you roll one or more dice, put a number of charge counters on this artifact equal to the result. {T}

: Add one mana of any color. Roll a d20. {T}

, Remove 100 charge counters from this artifact: Search your library for an artifact card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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.