Goyf is really the main reason to run Bauble here, since BUG can’t play Swiftspear. The thing about its interaction with Bob is that, to pull that off, you need to have:

1) a Bob out (you’re already winning)
2) a Bauble on top of your deck

If you reveal a land and not a Bauble, you get the same benefit. If you reveal a nonland, nonbauble card, you lose one life, or two at most. So running the Bauble really didn’t do that much. The times it will be relevant with Bob are scarce for this reason.

Also, I don’t think Bauble provides “dig.” Sure, you can scry with a fetchland, but again, that’s a dream scenario – you have to have a Bauble, not want to pop it for a card early, have a fetchland, AND have a Bob if you want to set up your top card. For what? So you don’t lose one life on your next upkeep? I’ve come to realize by playing a lot with Sleight of Hand that the “dig” you get off two cards is negligible enough to make it unplayable in most decks, even decks in which it does a ton of work on paper (iGrow). If Sleight hardly digs, Bauble really hardly digs.

Making space isn’t trivial, since we need to maintain 22 blue cards for Disrupting Shoal. If we cut “utility spells” from the BUG list, the only real options are Inquisition of Kozilek, Pack Rat, Abrupt Decay, and a land, I guess. (The other slots aren’t options; they’re Goyf, Confidant, and blue cards.) I just think the possible cuts are better in the deck than Bauble. With such an all-in bomb-two-drop plan, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice, respectively, the cheapest protection we have for the two drops, one of the two drops in question, or the most versatile spell this side of Lightning Bolt and one of the reasons we can go BUG in the first place. I’m fine with cutting a land if we play 4 Bauble, but it’s the other 3 Baubles that are hard to make room for.

I know 5/6 Goyf is the bee’s knees. I wrote about it in my Banana Phones article, which one user even sleeved up and won a PPTQ with (check the comments; link below). The card is sweet in green Delver decks, but probably not in this one.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=banana%20phone%20modernnexus

5/6 goyf eats rhinos tasigurs and anglers and survives dismember. It also shortens your clock by a turn in the abstract 20 life scenario. That extra point of P/T is not to be underestimated.

No synergy with bob? Come on – 0 dmg flips off of bob are the dream, and 2 life can be the difference between winning or losing vs aggro/burn decks. You can say its not enough, but saying a 0 mana flip that can also let you know and alter your top card before bob reveal is “notsynergy” is ridiculous.

Finding space is trivial, you cut 1 copy each of various utility spells since you’ve gained dig and will hit those spells more often anyways.

Is all of that enough to make up for not being a shoal-able card and not being able to leverage prowess or delve? I don’t know. Jund hasn’t been interested in bauble despite running bob and goyf (and even a singleton tasigur) so maybe its been tested and found wanting – but to me it looks like it has potential.

well there aren’t many writers so that makes him what.. worse than sheridan and trevor? lol.

I’m one of the poor schmucks who bought in on $20 days undoings based on Jordan’s analysis and I still don’t think his writing is bad. He needs to knock one out of the park to make up for the undoing debacle, but at least he’s trying unusual stuff like simic charm. I don’t need to read an article that tells me to cast thoughtseize into tarmogoyf.

Not sure what you mean. Stuck on red, you mean you can’t get to black mana? That hasn’t been an issue for me, but it still sounds like a problem you could remedy quickly by swapping some fetches if you run into it often.

I definitely do, but I’d advise anyone to play some games with a deck before buying into it if they have a limited budget and lack Modern staples. It’s important to enjoy what you sleeve up!

Really like the look of it but would have to invest in quite a few cards so want to make sure you think it’s competitive 😉

Angler, Tasigur, Become Immense, Scapeshift, Hive Mind, Primeval Titan, Cryptic Commands, Olivia, Huntmaster, Thrun (which we can do nothing about otherwise), that sort of thing. It’s not a huge edge, but it’s an edge.

That’s great news, care to enlighten us a bit on your testing specifics?

I’ve played +/- 10 matches with the Grixis Grow list and like it very much. I believe +1 Vapor Snag, -1 Terminate will prove beneficial. Makes me want to splash Mr. Robert into Monkey Grow!

I don’t usually think it’s worth it to play very bad cards for the purpose of making other bad cards good, unless doing so attacks a specific part of the metagame. In Modern, Burn has a sizable enough share to make these strategies even worse. The Suicide Delver lists aren’t tempo decks at all, they’re bad aggro decks. I tend to think most other linear aggro decks, like Burn, Zoo, and Bogles, are better-rounded and occupy unique spots in Modern, whereas Suicide Delver occupies the same space as some other aggro decks without properly addressing the problems those decks have. But you’re welcome to post a list if you want more comments than that.

Bauble doesn’t do enough in that deck. It hardly synergizes with Bob, since what would we cut for it? A land and three spells probably, and all our spells cost 1 or 2 already so we don’t save much life. 5/6 Goyf is also unnecessary with all the Simic Charms; we can pump him past fatties anyway. And Bauble isn’t great with Snapcaster Mage. I think all the creatures need to benefit greatly from the card for Bauble to earn its inclusion in grow decks, since getting the cantrip a turn late is a real issue.

While I can’t imagine the BUG deck ever losing to Twin, most Delver decks beat up on Twin anyway.

I think it does. But the real question is what do you want to hit with Thoughtseize that you can’t hit with IoK?

So you’ve already tested it and found it wanting – got it. In that case, would Thoughtseize merit consideration over IoK? I’m debating whether the life loss that is intrinsic to the deck makes its cost prohibitive.