I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so recently I've been talking all about Innestrade and going through Cars from Inestrade.

Well, I got up to K last time, so I'm up to L actually this time.

So we're going to continue on. And we're going to start today with Laboratory Maniac. Okay, so Laboratory Maniac

costs two in a blue, three mana for a two-two human wizard. If you draw no cards, if you draw

from your library, and there's no card to draw, you win the game. So normally, so when

Richard Garfield's first made magic, he realized that what happens if nobody can do damage to the other player?

You know, you have to have some sort of backup.

What if no one's able to defeat the other player?

And Richard's backup was, well, okay, someone's going to run out of cards in a library.

When that happens, they'll lose the game. So there's a rule of Magic, which says, if you cannot draw the last card,

if you go to draw a card and are unable to draw a card, you lose the game.

Well, magic's all about twisting its own rules.

Laboratory maniac says, well, what if that wasn't so?

What if instead of losing the game, you won the game?

So this is an alt-win card, and a kind of fun one.

We actually don't do that many all-win creatures.

There's a few, but not a lot.

So this was kind of a rarity.

This card was definitely beloved by the people.

It's not for everybody, and not exactly the kind of card you draft all that often,

but it's a fun deck to build around.

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