The War Doctor
Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor
Whenever one or more other permanents phase out and whenever one or more other cards are put into exile from anywhere, put a time counter on The War Doctor.
Whenever The War Doctor attacks, it deals damage equal to the number of time counters on it to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
3 / 5
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO #1139)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Artist
- Steve Morris
- EDHREC rank
- #7,911
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- Served from
- Local database
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 1
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- The Day of the Doctor
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- Into the Time Vortex
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Gallifrey Falls // No More
- Grasp of Fate
- Rest in Peace
- Ensnared by the Mara
- Ryan Sinclair
- Ephemerate
- The Pandorica
- Wild-Magic Sorcerer
- Plargg and Nassari
- Ecstatic Beauty
- Farewell
- TARDIS
- The Ozolith
- Cloudshift
- Guardian of Faith
- Throes of Chaos
- The Flux
- Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
- Passionate Archaeologist
- Lightning Greaves
- The Wedding of River Song
- River Song's Diary
- Norin the Wary
- Quintorius Kand
- Felidar Guardian
- The Moment
- Yasmin Khan
- Clara Oswald
- Outpost Siege
- Divine Smite
- The Parting of the Ways
- Flicker of Fate
- Tibalt's Trickery
- Return to Dust
- Valakut Exploration
- Calamity's Wake
- Spinerock Knoll
- Rogue's Passage
- Conjurer's Closet
- Eerie Interlude
- Fiend Hunter
- Everybody Lives!
- Delayed Blast Fireball
- Teleportation Circle
- Avatar's Wrath
- Teferi's Protection
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Mountain
- Plains
- Arcane Signet
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Swords to Plowshares
- Path to Exile
- Clifftop Retreat
- Lightning Greaves
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- Battlefield Forge
- The Day of the Doctor
- Rogue's Passage
- Talisman of Conviction
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Furycalm Snarl
- Into the Time Vortex
- Grasp of Fate
- Spectator Seating
- Gallifrey Falls // No More
- Farewell
- Ephemerate
- Sundown Pass
- Rest in Peace
- Exotic Orchard
- Ensnared by the Mara
- Ryan Sinclair
- Wild-Magic Sorcerer
- Rugged Prairie
- Sacred Foundry
- The Pandorica
- Boros Signet
- Plargg and Nassari
- The Ozolith
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Ecstatic Beauty
- Cloudshift
- Boros Garrison
- Blasphemous Act
- TARDIS
- Teferi's Protection
- Boros Charm
- Mind Stone
- Professional Face-Breaker
- Guardian of Faith
- Jeska's Will
- Temple of Triumph
- Chaos Warp
- Throes of Chaos
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-10-13
If The War Doctor phases out at the same time as any other permanents, its first ability won't trigger.
- 2023-10-13
If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
- 2023-10-13
Neither "Time" nor "Lord" are creature types. Some older cards were printed with the subtype "Lord," but all of those cards have updated Oracle card text that removed that type.
- 2023-10-13
Unlike other creature types in Magic that are each only one word, the two words "Time Lord" represent a single creature subtype. Time Lord is the only two-word creature type.
- 2023-10-13
You choose the target of the second ability as it attacks. The number of time counters is checked at the time the ability resolves. If The War Doctor has left the battlefield by that time, use the number of time counters it had on it the last time it was on the battlefield to determine how much damage it deals to that target.