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◇ Catalog #1097

Laboratory Maniac

sld·#1097·rare·borderless

Illus. Omar Rayyan

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Nov '22

3 yr ago

Value

$13.72+$1 (+4.2%)

30 days high $13 · low $12

NM$12.7

LP—

MP—

HP—

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$12–$13modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $14low $10range 34.9%n 82

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #573 · Common include

Variants

Borderless$13

Gameplay

Creature — Human Wizard

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

"They claim that dog is man's best friend. But according to my calculations, it's actually this guy!"

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Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 2

2021-03-19wotc

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.

2021-03-19wotc

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.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $12.72. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $10.29 and $13.88 across 82 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SLD — the lineup includes Borderless alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #1097 of *Secret Lair Drop*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2022 Secret Lair Drop release.

Card type: Creature — Human Wizard, color identity blue, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2}{U} (3 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #573 in Commander, putting it in the common-include tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Omar Rayyan. Rarix catalogs 134 other cards credited to this artist.