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Dr. Madison Li

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist MV 3

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What it does

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you get E (an energy counter).

T, Pay E: Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample and haste until end of turn.

T, Pay EEE: Draw a card.

T, Pay EEEEE: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Combos with Dr. Madison Li

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Intruder Alarm Robobrain War Mind Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite energy counters
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Decoction Module Intruder Alarm Myr Battlesphere Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite untap of creatures
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Decoction Module Intruder Alarm Myr Battlesphere Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite untap of creatures
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Decoction Module Intruder Alarm Myr Battlesphere Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite untap of creatures
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Decoction Module Intruder Alarm Myr Battlesphere Goblin Bombardment Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite untap of creatures
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Decoction Module Intruder Alarm Myr Battlesphere Altar of Dementia Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite mill
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite self-mill
    • Infinite untap of creatures
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Decoction Module Thornbite Staff Myr Battlesphere Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Guide of Souls Thornbite Staff Myr Battlesphere Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-03-08

    Some spells and abilities that give you E may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won’t resolve. You won’t get any E.

  • 2024-03-08

    Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing them down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)

  • 2024-03-08

    Some triggered abilities that state that you “may pay” a certain amount of E describe an effect that happens “If you do.” In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability’s effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase “When you do,” then you’ll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.

  • 2024-03-08

    Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They’re not associated with any specific permanents.

  • 2024-03-08

    If an effect says you get one or more E, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more E, you lose that many energy counters. You can’t pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.

  • 2024-03-08

    If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you “may pay” some amount of E, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won’t resolve. You can’t pay any E even if you want to.

  • 2024-03-08

    E is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

  • 2024-03-08

    Some triggered abilities state that you “may pay” a certain amount of E. You can’t pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of E as the ability resolves.

  • 2024-03-08

    Dr. Madison Li’s first ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger.

  • 2024-03-08

    Energy counters aren’t mana. They don’t go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana “of any type” can’t give you energy counters.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

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As a commander

Decks built with Dr. Madison Li in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

Every version of Dr. Madison Li

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

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Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.