Laboratory Brute
Creature — Zombie Horror
When this creature enters, mill four cards.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #25446
Laboratory Brute enters the battlefield and mills four cards — relevant self-mill payoff stapled to a 3/4 body for four mana. The rate is too slow for competitive formats, but in Commander self-mill strategies it does real work the turn it lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Laboratory Brute is a Commander card through and through — self-mill decks helmed by commanders like Millicent, Restless Revenant or The Wise Mothman can use the enters-the-battlefield trigger to fuel graveyard synergies while adding a body to the board. In Pauper, it's legal but outclassed by cheaper mills and more efficient common creatures. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no interest — the four-mana 3/4 with a one-shot mill-four effect can't compete at those power levels.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Laboratory Brute is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box without thinking. Price stability is essentially irrelevant here; it won't rise, but it also costs almost nothing to slot into a self-mill build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.