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The First Doctor
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USD foil $0.71
EUR €2.42

The First Doctor

{1}{W}{U}

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor

When The First Doctor enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a card named TARDIS, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature.

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Set
Doctor Who (WHO #552)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
3
Released
2023-10-13
Artist
Steve Morris
EDHREC rank
#12,659
Colour identity
{U}{W}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.25
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander
Tutor

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. TARDIS 88 %+87.4 %
  2. Ethersworn Sphinx 56 %+54.7 %
  3. Stormcaller's Boon 50 %+49.9 %
  4. Mystic Gate 69 %+44.0 %
  5. Ardent Plea 44 %+43.7 %
  6. Oswald Fiddlebender 44 %+42.2 %
  7. Stenn, Paranoid Partisan 44 %+41.2 %
  8. Cloud Key 44 %+38.9 %
  9. Reckoner Bankbuster 38 %+34.5 %
  10. Tezzeret the Seeker 38 %+33.5 %
  11. A.I.M. Bot 33 %+33.2 %
  12. Gallifrey Stands 31 %+31.2 %
  13. Mind Stone 56 %+31.0 %
  14. Trenzalore Clocktower 31 %+30.9 %
  15. Foundry Inspector 44 %+30.7 %
  16. Avengers Hangar 33 %+30.6 %
  17. Anchor to Reality 31 %+29.2 %
  18. Deserted Beach 69 %+28.2 %
  19. Sai, Master Thopterist 38 %+27.2 %
  20. Emry, Lurker of the Loch 38 %+26.7 %
  21. Prodigy's Prototype 31 %+25.9 %
  22. Mobilizer Mech 31 %+25.5 %
  23. Salvation Engine 31 %+25.0 %
  24. Forceful Denial 25 %+24.8 %
  25. Fractured Powerstone 25 %+24.5 %
  26. Castle Doom 25 %+24.4 %
  27. Arc Reactor 25 %+23.9 %
  28. Captain America's Shield 25 %+23.5 %
  29. The Ten Rings 25 %+23.4 %
  30. Etherium Sculptor 38 %+23.2 %
  31. Prismatic Lens 25 %+22.9 %
  32. Port Town 69 %+22.2 %
  33. Fierce Guardianship 38 %+22.1 %
  34. Fellwar Stone 50 %+21.4 %
  35. Mikokoro, Center of the Sea 25 %+21.1 %
  36. Displacer Kitten 31 %+20.6 %
  37. Azorius Signet 75 %+19.6 %
  38. Wrath of God 25 %+18.8 %
  39. Dispatch 31 %+18.8 %
  40. Sakashima's Protege 19 %+18.6 %
  41. Karn, Living Legacy 19 %+18.2 %
  42. Gran-Gran 18 %+17.6 %
  43. Glacial Fortress 81 %+17.2 %
  44. Gold Myr 25 %+16.7 %
  45. Brush Off 17 %+16.2 %
  46. Padeem, Consul of Innovation 25 %+15.6 %
  47. Unwinding Clock 25 %+15.2 %
  48. Nimbus Maze 38 %+15.1 %
  49. Path to Exile 69 %+15.1 %
  50. Esper Sentinel 38 %+14.7 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Plains 94 %-1.6 %
  2. Island 94 %-1.9 %
  3. Arcane Signet 88 %+4.9 %
  4. TARDIS 88 %+87.4 %
  5. Glacial Fortress 81 %+17.2 %
  6. Command Tower 81 %-4.0 %
  7. Sol Ring 75 %-10.8 %
  8. Azorius Signet 75 %+19.6 %
  9. Prairie Stream 69 %+3.3 %
  10. Deserted Beach 69 %+28.2 %
  11. Mystic Gate 69 %+44.0 %
  12. Port Town 69 %+22.2 %
  13. Path to Exile 69 %+15.1 %
  14. Swords to Plowshares 56 %-12.3 %
  15. Ethersworn Sphinx 56 %+54.7 %
  16. Mind Stone 56 %+31.0 %
  17. Stormcaller's Boon 50 %+49.9 %
  18. Fellwar Stone 50 %+21.4 %
  19. Talisman of Progress 50 %-1.0 %
  20. Thought Vessel 44 %+1.3 %
  21. Ardent Plea 44 %+43.7 %
  22. Cloud Key 44 %+38.9 %
  23. Oswald Fiddlebender 44 %+42.2 %
  24. Reliquary Tower 44 %-4.8 %
  25. Counterspell 44 %-10.2 %
  26. Stenn, Paranoid Partisan 44 %+41.2 %
  27. Adarkar Wastes 44 %-2.5 %
  28. Dovin's Veto 44 %+4.4 %
  29. Foundry Inspector 44 %+30.7 %
  30. Nimbus Maze 38 %+15.1 %
  31. Fierce Guardianship 38 %+22.1 %
  32. Tezzeret the Seeker 38 %+33.5 %
  33. Sai, Master Thopterist 38 %+27.2 %
  34. Etherium Sculptor 38 %+23.2 %
  35. Skycloud Expanse 38 %+2.3 %
  36. Emry, Lurker of the Loch 38 %+26.7 %
  37. Reckoner Bankbuster 38 %+34.5 %
  38. Exotic Orchard 38 %+9.7 %
  39. Esper Sentinel 38 %+14.7 %
  40. Azorius Chancery 38 %+2.6 %
  41. Avengers Hangar 33 %+30.6 %
  42. A.I.M. Bot 33 %+33.2 %
  43. Enlightened Tutor 31 %+14.2 %
  44. Gallifrey Stands 31 %+31.2 %
  45. Swan Song 31 %+12.3 %
  46. Ghostly Prison 31 %+6.1 %
  47. An Offer You Can't Refuse 31 %+3.1 %
  48. Negate 31 %+3.4 %
  49. Anchor to Reality 31 %+29.2 %
  50. Salvation Engine 31 %+25.0 %

Format legality

Standard Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Not legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Brawl Not legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Historic Not legal
Timeless Not legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Not legal
Premodern Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Pauper EDH Not legal
Old School Not legal
Future Not legal
Gladiator Not legal
All printingsScryfall ↗Gatherer ↗Edhrec ↗

Rulings

  • 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 for The First Doctor's last ability before revealing any cards for cascade.

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