Grim Bauble
Artifact
When this artifact enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
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, 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.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #16766
Grim Bauble enters the battlefield, puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature, and replaces itself with a card draw when that creature dies — all for one mana. That's a clean three-for-one spread across a single colorless mana, and any deck that runs sacrifice synergies or aristocrats effects should slot it without hesitation.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Grim Bauble does exactly what the format rewards: it staples a counter to something your sacrifice engine wants to kill anyway, then pays you a card when the loop closes. In Modern and Legacy, it fits neatly into Lurrus of the Dream-Den shells and any black-based sacrifice list that wants cheap, recurring value with near-zero mana commitment. Pioneer and Standard give it a live home in aristocrats builds where one-mana cantrips with upside are genuinely competitive. Pauper is where it quietly overperforms — at common, a zero-opportunity-cost counter plus a death-trigger draw is above the format's baseline for one mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Grim Bauble is pure bulk — you're picking it up for less than a draft common and sleeving it the same day. The effect is strong enough that demand from sacrifice and aristocrats players across multiple formats should keep it from sinking further, but don't expect it to climb either.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.