Live Play Data

Laboratory Maniac

· Creature — Human Wizard · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2501

Decks Running

1030

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=377

11%

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 10% (22 / 377 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

2505 brought · 861 players

Brought to game

2505

Ever drawn

833

Reached battlefield

377

Still on board at game end

239

Once cast, 63% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +25.4pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=349) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1369).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=417).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +30.8pp; 95% confidence interval +25.4pp to +36.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

952 instances

4.7%

Library

25.1%

Battlefield

24.8%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 55 decks
2 Whtz, the Bibliophile 37 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 33 decks
4 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler 31 decks
5 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 31 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 23 decks
7 Queza, Augur of Agonies 19 decks
8 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher 19 decks
9 Grolnok, the Omnivore 17 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 17 decks

Card text

Laboratory Maniac

Creature — Human Wizard

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

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Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Felix

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.