Unstable Experiment
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Through the Omenpaths #45 (common)
Target player draws a card, then up to one target creature you control connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Unstable Experiment has 3 printings, first in Marvel's Spider-Man (2025). EDHREC ranks it #7,791 among Commander cards. It appears most in Norman Osborn // Green Goblin decks (5,500 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Unstable Experiment most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Norman Osborn // Green Goblin: 5,500 decks
- Doctor Doom, King of Latveria: 1,883 decks
- Doctor Octopus, Master Planner: 818 decks
- Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor: 494 decks
- Prowler, Clawed Thief: 266 decks
- The Astonishing Ant-Man: 258 decks
- Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan: 238 decks
- Symbiote Spider-Man: 221 decks
Often played with Unstable Experiment
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter.
- : If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter.
- : If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger "when [that creature] connives" will trigger.