Deranged Assistant
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
InnistradISD · #52
- Card type
- Creature — Human Wizard
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · ★ 0.36 € · 0.19 $ · ★ 0.92 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
, Mill a card: Add . (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nils Hamm
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2011-09-30
Flavour text
"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."
Rulings
Once Deranged Assistant’s ability has been activated, it can’t be reversed for any reason. If you activate it while casting a spell and discover you can’t produce enough mana to pay that spell’s costs, the spell is reversed. The spell returns to whatever zone you were casting it from. You may reverse other mana abilities you activated while casting the spell, but Deranged Assistant’s ability can’t be reversed. You’ll still have any mana the ability produced, and the milled card will still be in your graveyard.
