Deranged Assistant
Commander Masters 87 • common
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Collector number
- 87
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Nils Hamm
- Market price
- $0.20
What it does
tap, Mill a card: Add colorless mana. (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Deranged Assistant was originally introduced in the Innistrad expansion in 2011, a set deeply rooted in Gothic horror tropes and the Cthulhu Mythos. Designed as a common blue creature, the card captures the archetype of the unstable lab assistant serving a necromantic master. Its mechanical function—milling cards to provide mana—reflects the thematic cost of trading one's sanity or memories for temporary arcane power within the game's graveyard-centric strategy.
The art for this Commander Masters reprint, rendered by artist Jason Felix, emphasizes the chaotic and grim aesthetic of the card's source material. By focusing on the frantic energy of the subject, the illustration reinforces the card's identity as a utilitarian tool that exacts a toll on the user. When included in the Commander Masters set, the card was updated with the modern card frame, allowing players to integrate this classic utility creature into diverse deck archetypes that rely on graveyard synergy.
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