First printed in Aetherdrift (2025)

Grim Bauble

Artifact

When this artifact enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
2 generic Black , tap , Sacrifice this artifact: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Illustrated by: Wero Gallo

Legality

Legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in: Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Pauper In 1 of 216 decks (0.5%), most in Esper Affinity

Pauper metagame

Share of decks

0.4%

▼ 1.8 vs previous 7 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

0 main, 1 sideboard

Avg. copies

–

in the main deck

Win rate

57%

1 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	2.1%
17 Aug	0.6%
24 Aug	0.9%
31 Aug	0.9%
7 Sep	1.3%
14 Sep	0.9%
21 Sep	3.1%
28 Sep	4.8%
5 Oct	1.9%
12 Oct	1.3%
19 Oct	2.2%
26 Oct	0.4%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Esper Affinity	2.3%	20%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Esper Affinity NickNorman in Pauper Challenge 32	4-3 57%

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Esper Affinity NickNorman, 29 Oct	2 side	#4 (top 8) of 51 4-3

Standard No decks in this period

Standard metagame

No decks with this card in this period.

Pioneer No decks in this period

Pioneer metagame

Staple: sideboard, 3% of decks (#75) (last 120 days)

No decks with this card in this period.

Commander No decks in this period

Commander metagame

No decks with this card in this period.

Duel Commander No decks in this period

Duel Commander metagame

No decks with this card in this period.

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Grim Bauble in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Aetherdrift (DFT), Premier Draft	57.5%	+2.6	+3.4	103931
Aetherdrift (DFT), Sealed	59.0%	+1.9	+3.0	4472

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen