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The Fugitive Doctor

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor MV 5

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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 until end of turn. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Rulings

11 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-10-13

    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

    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 a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.

  • 2023-10-13

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

  • 2023-10-13

    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

    If a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.

  • 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

    "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

    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

    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

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

In the 99

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

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
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
The Thirteenth Doctor 1 0 —
Yasmin Khan 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Temur 1 deck

Every version of The Fugitive Doctor

6 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 Fugitive 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.