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Laboratory Maniac

{2} {U} · Creature — Human Wizard · Innistrad Remastered (INR)
2%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
654
Decks Running
294
In Decks
2272
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Laboratory Maniac card

Laboratory Maniac

{2} {U}
Creature — Human Wizard
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
2 / 2
Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Felix

Final zone distribution

232 instances
3.4%
Library
23.7%
Battlefield
24.6%
Graveyard
4.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

655 brought · 263 players
Brought to game
655
Ever drawn
214
Reached battlefield
88
Still on board at game end
55

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.

≥ +18.7pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=83) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=379).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=117) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +29.5pp; 95% confidence interval +18.7pp to +40.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=88
0%
T1
8%
T2
6%
T3
8%
T4
6%
T5
52%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 14% (5 / 88 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%
88 of 100 times cast 88%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.