Ian Chesterton
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist
Science Teacher — Each Saga spell you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you cast that Saga, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. Copies of Saga spells become tokens.)
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
2 / 3
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO #22)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Artist
- Kim Sokol
- EDHREC rank
- #13,042
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, 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.
- The Birth of Meletis
- Three Blind Mice
- Michiko's Reign of Truth
- Love Song of Night and Day
- The Restoration of Eiganjo
- Mesa Enchantress
- Summon: Ixion
- Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
- Starfield Mystic
- Archon of Sun's Grace
- Barbara Wright
- Historian's Boon
- The Fall of Lord Konda
- Summon: Good King Mog XII
- Fall of the First Civilization
- History of Benalia
- Elspeth Conquers Death
- Summon: Yojimbo
- The War Games
- Triumph of Gerrard
- Ghostly Dancers
- The Princess Takes Flight
- The Night of the Doctor
- Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- Auramancer
- Summon: Knights of Round
- Vault 75: Middle School
- Summon: Primal Garuda
- Nesting Grounds
- Trial of a Time Lord
- Ondu Spiritdancer
- Summon: Bahamut
- Vault 13: Dweller's Journey
- Ajani Fells the Godsire
- Search for Glory
- Starnheim Courser
- Scholar of New Horizons
- Era of Enlightenment
- Slumbering Keepguard
- Origin of Spider-Man
- Summon: Choco/Mog
- Elena, Turk Recruit
- Monk Idealist
- Tale of Tinúviel
- Adagia, Windswept Bastion
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Power Conduit
- Boon of the Spirit Realm
- Resurgent Belief
- Brilliant Restoration
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- The Birth of Meletis
- Three Blind Mice
- Michiko's Reign of Truth
- The Restoration of Eiganjo
- Mesa Enchantress
- Love Song of Night and Day
- Archon of Sun's Grace
- Starfield Mystic
- Summon: Ixion
- Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
- Sol Ring
- Plains
- Historian's Boon
- Elspeth Conquers Death
- Pearl Medallion
- Barbara Wright
- The Fall of Lord Konda
- Fall of the First Civilization
- History of Benalia
- Summon: Good King Mog XII
- Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- Summon: Yojimbo
- The War Games
- Triumph of Gerrard
- Ghostly Dancers
- The Princess Takes Flight
- Auramancer
- The Night of the Doctor
- Summon: Knights of Round
- Vault 75: Middle School
- Nesting Grounds
- Summon: Primal Garuda
- Search for Glory
- Path to Exile
- Trial of a Time Lord
- Ondu Spiritdancer
- Starnheim Courser
- Summon: Bahamut
- Ajani Fells the Godsire
- Vault 13: Dweller's Journey
- Adagia, Windswept Bastion
- Scholar of New Horizons
- Swords to Plowshares
- Arcane Signet
- Era of Enlightenment
- Slumbering Keepguard
- Elena, Turk Recruit
- Origin of Spider-Man
- Summon: Choco/Mog
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
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
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
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.