Live Play Data

Laboratory Maniac

· Creature — Human Wizard · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1286

Decks Running

571

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=182

58%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 11% (10 / 182 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1288 brought · 483 players

Brought to game

1288

Ever drawn

426

Reached battlefield

182

Still on board at game end

119

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +23.7pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=169) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=732).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=223).

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 +31.4pp; 95% confidence interval +23.7pp to +39.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

464 instances

4.3%

Library

25.6%

Battlefield

22.6%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 33 decks
2 Flubs, the Fool 23 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 23 decks
4 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler 18 decks
5 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 17 decks
6 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher 14 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
8 Baral, Chief of Compliance 10 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 10 decks
10 Queza, Augur of Agonies 10 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.