The Master, Gallifrey's End
Legendary Creature — Time Lord Rogue
Make Them Pay — Whenever a nontoken artifact creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, choose an opponent with the most life among your opponents. That player faces a villainous choice — They lose 4 life, or you create a token that's a copy of that card.
"A perfect army, right? Right? Oh, come in, my pretties!"
4 / 3
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO #1018)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Artist
- Alexander Mokhov
- EDHREC rank
- #12,141
- 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
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Foundry Inspector
- Dalek Drone
- Psychomancer
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Pia's Revolution
- Cyberman Patrol
- Cybermen Squadron
- Ornithopter of Paradise
- Combustible Gearhulk
- Delete
- Dalek Squadron
- Wurmcoil Engine
- Circuit Mender
- Imotekh the Stormlord
- Chronomancer
- Jhoira's Familiar
- The Dalek Emperor
- Canoptek Spyder
- Scrap Trawler
- Burnished Hart
- Cybermat
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
- Skorpekh Lord
- Iron Myr
- Illuminor Szeras
- Shimmer Myr
- Buried Ruin
- This Is How It Ends
- Leaden Myr
- Biotransference
- Oni-Cult Anvil
- Meteor Golem
- Trash for Treasure
- Genesis of the Daleks
- Cryptothrall
- Marionette Master
- Exterminate!
- Palladium Myr
- Chaos Defiler
- Their Name Is Death
- Ultron the Annihilator
- Barbed Servitor
- Doomsday Confluence
- Demand Answers
- Liquimetal Torque
- Triplicate Titan
- Darksteel Citadel
- Ultron's Auxiliary
- Castle Doom
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Command Tower
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Sol Ring
- Foundry Inspector
- Arcane Signet
- Dalek Drone
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Psychomancer
- Pia's Revolution
- Dragonskull Summit
- Combustible Gearhulk
- Cyberman Patrol
- Ornithopter of Paradise
- Smoldering Marsh
- Cybermen Squadron
- Delete
- Dalek Squadron
- Wurmcoil Engine
- Deadly Dispute
- Circuit Mender
- Imotekh the Stormlord
- Chronomancer
- Jhoira's Familiar
- The Dalek Emperor
- Canoptek Spyder
- Burnished Hart
- Scrap Trawler
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Rakdos Signet
- Demand Answers
- Temple of Malice
- Foreboding Ruins
- Blasphemous Act
- Feed the Swarm
- Terminate
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
- Buried Ruin
- Iron Myr
- Lightning Greaves
- Cybermat
- Skorpekh Lord
- Marionette Master
- Illuminor Szeras
- Leaden Myr
- Village Rites
- Bedevil
- Oni-Cult Anvil
- Shimmer Myr
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-10-13
A player facing a villainous choice can always choose either option, even if one or both of the options are impossible. For example, if one of the options is to sacrifice a creature, a player who controls no creatures can still choose that option.
- 2023-10-13
If a spell or ability requires multiple players to face a villainous choice, the result is a little different from other effects in Magic. In that case, the first player in turn order makes their choice and the action for that choice is performed before the next player makes their choice. Then each of the remaining players repeat this process in turn order.
- 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
When a player faces a villainous choice, they first choose one of the two options, then all actions in the chosen option are performed.