Card

The Fourth Doctor

Mana cost {2}{G}{U}

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor 4/4

You may look at the top card of your library any time. Would You Like A...? — Once each turn, you may play a historic land or cast a historic spell from the top of your library. When you do, create a Food token. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 38 known combos. 8 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · WHO · #2
Cheapest printing
€1.03
EDHREC salt
0.67
Color identity
Green, Blue
Keywords
Food

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

38 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
  • 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
  • 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the top card of your library changes during the process of casting a spell or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until the process of casting the spell or activating the ability ends (all targets are chosen, all costs are paid, and so on).
  • 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
    Essentially, The Fourth Doctor lets you play with the top card of your library revealed only to you. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand. You may look at the top card of your library whenever you want, even if you don't have priority. This action doesn't use the stack.
  • 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
    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 an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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