You should use Trickbind with Flubs or Track of Creation to make it very troublesome in your opponent to cease you from profitable with Laboratory Maniac.
As soon as Laboratory Maniac resolves, any card draw instruction lets you win the sport. If in case you have Flubs, the Idiot or Track of Creation and also you forged Trickbind or one other spell with Cut up Second, the cardboard draw triggered potential will set off from casting that spell, and go on prime of the stack over the Trickbind. Meaning that it’ll resolve whereas Trickbind continues to be on the stack, so it will likely be protected against the entire kinds of interplay that Trickbind prevents.
Relying on what precisely you forged the Trickbind in response to, the opponent might have the possibility to forged a spell earlier than you forged the Trickbind. However that does not assist your opponent, as a result of you’ll be able to simply forged the Trickbind in response to their spell and win whereas their spell continues to be on the stack. If they’ve their very own Cut up Second
elimination spell and an opportunity to forged it, you’d have an issue.
I mentioned this makes it “troublesome” in your opponent to cease you, not “unattainable”, as a result of Cut up Second does permit for some interplay. Cut up Second doesn’t forestall gamers from activating mana skills or taking particular actions, and doing that may in flip set off skills that might be able to intervene with the combo. For instance, your opponent might sacrifice Perilous Myr to activate Ashnod’s Altar‘s abiltiy, and have Perilous Myr’s triggered potential deal 2 harm to Laboratory Maniac.
I additionally need to handle a typical false impression with utilizing Cut up Second to guard combos like this: you can not use Cut up Second to guard spells and skills which might be already on the stack. Spells and skills on the stack resolve separately. After the highest spell or potential on the stack resolves, every participant has a chance to play spells or activate skills earlier than the following object on the stack resolves. Which means that if you happen to attempt to use Trickbind to cease an opponent from interacting with a spell or potential that will win the sport that’s already on the stack, the opponent can merely anticipate Trickbind to resolve earlier than utilizing their interplay.
