Laboratory Maniac
The Zeta Set 21 • uncommon
- Set
- The Zeta Set
- Collector number
- 21
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- MSCHF
What it does
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Laboratory Maniac was originally released in the Innistrad set in 2011, designed as a rare creature that introduced a unique alternative win condition to Magic: The Gathering. The card represents a departure from traditional gameplay goals by rewarding the player for exhausting their own library, a concept that emphasizes the chaotic and intellectual instability often associated with blue-aligned characters in the game's lore.
The card was illustrated by Jason Felix, who utilized a stark, frantic aesthetic to capture the manic energy of a scholar pushed to the brink of insanity by forbidden knowledge. It was well-received by the player base for its high-risk, high-reward mechanics, eventually becoming a cornerstone card in various combo-oriented strategies across multiple formats, particularly in the Commander variant.
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