Laboratory Maniac
Laboratory Maniac: Creature - Human Wizard, Innistrad Remastered. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Human Wizard
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered (INR)
- Released
- 2025-01-24
- Collector number
- 71
- Artist
- Jason Felix
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About Laboratory Maniac
Laboratory Maniac is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue creature from Innistrad Remastered (INR), a Masters set released in January 2025. It is collector number 71 in that set, with art by Jason Felix. It costs {2}{U} (two generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 8 sets, from Innistrad (2011) to Final Fantasy: Through the Ages (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.57 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
His mind whirled with grand plans, never thinking of what might happen if he were to succeed.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.57 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Laboratory Maniac by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Laboratory Maniac
Laboratory Maniac has been printed in 8 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #INR-71 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #142 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #21 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #263 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| Final Fantasy: Through the Ages (FCA) #30 | Uncommon | 2025 |
| Innistrad Remastered (INR) #304 | Uncommon | 2025 |
| Innistrad Remastered (INR) #359 | Uncommon | 2025 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1394 | Rare | 2023 |
| The List (PLST) #ISD-61 | Rare | 2023 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1097 | Rare | 2022 |
| Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) #309 | Special | 2021 |
| The List (PLST) #UMA-61 | Uncommon | 2019 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Laboratory Maniac, newest first.
- If for some reason you can't win the game (because your opponent has cast Angel's Grace this turn, for example), you won't lose for having tried to draw a card from a library with no cards in it. The draw was still replaced.
- If two or more players each control a Laboratory Maniac and each player is instructed to draw a number of cards, first the player whose turn it is draws that many cards. If this causes that player to win the game instead, the game is immediately over. If the game isn't over yet, repeat this process for each other player in turn order.
Similar cards
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