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Doctor Doom, Unrivaled

Legendary Creature — Human Sorcerer Villain2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The mill-yourself-into-victory clock has always been blue's project: Laboratory Maniac flips the empty-library loss into a win, Jace, Wielder of Mysteries hands that flip to a walker's static ability, and Thassa's Oracle collapses the whole plan into an enters-the-battlefield check. What separates this design is that it runs the same idea in black and folds the win condition and the engine that gets there onto a single body. The tap ability draws a card and shaves a life, then checks whether the library is empty and awards the game if it is. The parenthetical is where the work happens: it explicitly waives the two things that kill every other lab-maniac line, so you win at zero life and you win even if the draw itself was the point of no return. Ordinarily, drawing from an empty library is how you lose; here the emptying is the victory, so there is no fatal step to sequence around. The lifelink body is not decoration either, since combat life directly funds an ability that shaves a life each activation. The creature deck-thins and pays off at once: no assembling Laboratory Maniac plus a way to draw on an empty deck, no holding your breath on the last card. The loss condition is rewritten inside the card's own text, so the plan cannot backfire on the pilot who built around it.

Doctor Doom, Unrivaled (msc)
MSC · #654mythic
Pricing
Normal: $65.43
Foil: $107.80
Oracle Text

Rules text

Lifelink Tap: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game. (You win even if you have 0 life or didn't draw a card.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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