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Modern Card Adoption Weekly Trends

1 requestsStarted 10/17/2025, 6:27:52 PM
can you share the average number of vexing bauble maindeck and in sideboard per deck on a weekly bases for the last 4 weeks ? Same with wrath of the skies.

I'll analyze the weekly adoption of Vexing Bauble and Wrath of the Skies in Modern over the last 4 weeks.

Now I'll query the database to get weekly adoption data for both cards over the last 4 weeks:

🛠️QueryCard Presence and Copies in Tournaments

Now let me get sources for this time period:

Weekly Card Adoption Analysis (Last 4 Weeks)

Vexing Bauble

Maindeck:

  • Week of Sep 22: 1.14 copies per deck (8.3% presence)
  • Week of Sep 29: 1.29 copies per deck (10.3% presence)
  • Week of Oct 6: 1.26 copies per deck (13.5% presence)
  • Week of Oct 13: 1.17 copies per deck (18.8% presence)

Sideboard:

  • Week of Sep 22: 1.39 copies per deck (18.0% presence)
  • Week of Sep 29: 1.28 copies per deck (17.4% presence)
  • Week of Oct 6: 1.37 copies per deck (20.4% presence)
  • Week of Oct 13: 1.25 copies per deck (25.0% presence)

Trend: Vexing Bauble is growing steadily, especially in maindecks where presence nearly doubled from 8.3% to 18.8%. Copies per deck remain consistent at ~1.2-1.3, suggesting it's typically played as a 1-of when included.

Wrath of the Skies

Maindeck:

  • Week of Sep 22: 2.55 copies per deck (3.7% presence)
  • Week of Sep 29: 2.29 copies per deck (3.2% presence)
  • Week of Oct 6: 1.91 copies per deck (3.7% presence)
  • Week of Oct 13: 2.0 copies per deck (6.3% presence)

Sideboard:

  • Week of Sep 22: 1.90 copies per deck (36.8% presence)
  • Week of Sep 29: 2.14 copies per deck (35.5% presence)
  • Week of Oct 6: 2.05 copies per deck (36.7% presence)
  • Week of Oct 13: 1.9 copies per deck (31.3% presence)

Trend: Wrath of the Skies is primarily a sideboard card with stable ~35% presence and 2+ copies per deck. Maindeck adoption remains very low (~3-6%) but decks that maindeck it typically run 2+ copies.

Sources: Data from 53 tournaments (77% MTGO, 23% Melee) between Sep 18 - Oct 16. Recent events: Modern Challenge Oct 13, Modern Challenge Oct 12, Modern Challenge Oct 12