
Barbara Wright
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
History Teacher — Sagas you control have read ahead. (As a Saga enters, choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Skipped chapters don't trigger.)
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
"There will be no sacrifice this afternoon, Doctor. Or ever again."
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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 78
Showing the 50 most played of 78.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Elspeth Conquers Death
- Ian Chesterton
- Triumph of Gerrard
- The Night of the Doctor
- The Birth of Meletis
- Love Song of Night and Day
- Summon: Yojimbo
- Three Blind Mice
- Battle at the Helvault
- Summon: Good King Mog XII
- Summon: Ixion
- The Restoration of Eiganjo
- Starfield Mystic
- Mesa Enchantress
- Michiko's Reign of Truth
- Ondu Spiritdancer
- Summon: Primal Garuda
- Archon of Sun's Grace
- Summon: Knights of Round
- Brilliant Restoration
- Starnheim Courser
- Trial of a Time Lord
- Historian's Boon
- Ajani Fells the Godsire
- The Princess Takes Flight
- Fall of the First Civilization
- War of the Last Alliance
- The War Games
- Tale of Tinúviel
- Vault 75: Middle School
- History of Benalia
- Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
- Jhoira's Familiar
- Flicker of Fate
- The Caves of Androzani
- Triumphant Reckoning
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
- Karn's Bastion
- Monk Idealist
- The Fall of Lord Konda
- Vault 101: Birthday Party
- Open the Vaults
- Scrollshift
- Auramancer
- Elesh Norn
- Sigil of the Empty Throne
- Sphere of Safety
- Hall of Heliod's Generosity
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Plains
- Elspeth Conquers Death
- Path to Exile
- The Birth of Meletis
- Ian Chesterton
- The Night of the Doctor
- Love Song of Night and Day
- Triumph of Gerrard
- Summon: Yojimbo
- Three Blind Mice
- Battle at the Helvault
- The Restoration of Eiganjo
- Mesa Enchantress
- Starfield Mystic
- Summon: Good King Mog XII
- Summon: Ixion
- Starnheim Courser
- Michiko's Reign of Truth
- Archon of Sun's Grace
- Brilliant Restoration
- Ondu Spiritdancer
- Summon: Primal Garuda
- Summon: Knights of Round
- The Princess Takes Flight
- Ajani Fells the Godsire
- Trial of a Time Lord
- Fall of the First Civilization
- War of the Last Alliance
- Historian's Boon
- Jhoira's Familiar
- Swords to Plowshares
- Flicker of Fate
- Pearl Medallion
- History of Benalia
- Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
- Tale of Tinúviel
- The War Games
- Vault 75: Middle School
- Sol Ring
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
- Triumphant Reckoning
- Arcane Signet
- The Caves of Androzani
- Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- Karn's Bastion
- Scrollshift
- Generous Gift
- Open the Vaults
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-10-13
Although Doctor's companion is a new variant of the partner ability, the rules for partner have not otherwise changed. Notably, Time Lord Doctors and cards with Doctor's companion do not interact with cards which have another partner ability.
- 2023-10-13
An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- 2023-10-13
As a Saga with read ahead enters the battlefield, its controller chooses a number from one to that Saga's greatest chapter number. The Saga enters the battlefield with the chosen number of lore counters. Neither choosing the number nor putting the counters on the Saga use the stack, and neither can be responded to.
- 2023-10-13
Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- 2023-10-13
Having multiple instances of read ahead doesn't cause anything unusual to happen. It functions the same way as having one instance of read ahead.
- 2023-10-13
If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- 2023-10-13
If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities.
- 2023-10-13
Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined.
- 2023-10-13
The Doctor's companion ability allows you to have two commanders if one has the ability and the other is a legendary creature that is a Time Lord Doctor and has no other creature types. Creatures with the changeling ability, for example, can't be a second commander this way.