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Laboratory Maniac

· Creature — Human Wizard · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

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Times Brought

647

Decks Running

337

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

220 instances

2.7%

Library

32.3%

Battlefield

17.3%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 20 decks
2 Flubs, the Fool 9 decks
3 Grolnok, the Omnivore 9 decks
4 Queza, Augur of Agonies 8 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 8 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
7 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler 7 decks
8 The Astonishing Ant-Man 6 decks
9 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 5 decks
10 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

647 brought · 303 players

Brought to game

647

Ever drawn

186

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=81) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=317).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=73).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=91

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 11% (7 / 91 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

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.