Card

The Fugitive Doctor

Mana cost {3}{R}{G}

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor 4/4

When The Fugitive Doctor enters, investigate. Whenever The Fugitive Doctor attacks, you may sacrifice a Clue. When you do, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback {2}{R}{G} until end of turn. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 11 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · WHO · #130
Cheapest printing
€0.02
EDHREC salt
0.50
Color identity
Green, Red
Keywords
Investigate

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

No known combos for this card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you cast an instant or sorcery with {X} in its mana cost this way, you must choose 0 as the value of X. (You still have to pay {2}{R}{G}.)
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    "Investigate" means "Create a Clue token." A Clue token is a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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