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The Fourth Doctor

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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.)

Combos with The Fourth Doctor

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.

  • Displacer Kitten Sensei's Divining Top Etherium Sculptor Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite Food tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Displacer Kitten Sensei's Divining Top Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Near-infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite lifegain
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite colorless mana
    • Near-infinite Food tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

Rulings

8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-10-13

    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

    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

    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

    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

    If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.

  • 2024-11-08

    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

    Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.

  • 2024-11-08

    Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.

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

As a commander

Decks built with The Fourth Doctor 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.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes The Fourth Doctor, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 3
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Kellan, the Kid 1 3 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Bant 1 deck

Every version of The Fourth Doctor

8 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Fourth Doctor — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

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.