Deranged Assistant
Innistrad 52 • common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Collector number
- 52
- 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 released in 2011 as part of the Innistrad expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set introduced a Gothic horror aesthetic, focusing on themes of psychological isolation and madness, and this creature card was designed to mechanicaly reflect the frantic, self-sacrificial nature of a scientist's desperate final experiments.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Igor Kieryluk, who depicted the assistant in a state of high-stress labor within a dim, alchemical workshop. The design choice aimed to capture the essence of the 'mad scientist' trope prevalent in the set's narrative, where characters often sacrifice their own sanity or resources—represented here by the self-mill ability—to fuel more powerful magical discoveries.
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