Empty the Laboratory

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Empty the Laboratory: Sorcery, Midnight Hunt Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{X}{U}{U}
Mana value
2
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC)
Released
2021-09-24
Collector number
14
Artist
Tuan Duong Chu
Commander rank
6,437 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Empty the Laboratory

Empty the Laboratory is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue sorcery from Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC), a Commander product released in September 2021. It is collector number 14 in that set, with art by Tuan Duong Chu. It costs {X}{U}{U} (X and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.37 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Sacrifice X Zombies, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a number of Zombie creature cards equal to the number of Zombies sacrificed this way. Put those cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.37 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Empty the Laboratory by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Empty the Laboratory

Empty the Laboratory has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #93942Rare2022
Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC) #52Rare2021

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Empty the Laboratory.

  • The Zombies will enter the battlefield simultaneously. They will see each other enter for the purposes of triggered abilities.

Similar cards

Other sorcery cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Empty the Laboratory is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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