The Third Doctor
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Trample
The Third Doctor gets +1/+1 for each noncreature token you control.
When The Third Doctor enters, create your choice of a Clue token, a Food token, or a Treasure token.
Combos with The Third Doctor
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Deadeye Navigator Panharmonicon Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Emiel the Blessed Training Grounds Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Deadeye Navigator Adrix and Nev, Twincasters Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Emiel the Blessed Preston, the Vanisher Delney, Streetwise Lookout Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite Food tokens
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 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
If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
- 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.
- 2024-11-08
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- 2024-11-08
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
- 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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Third Doctor, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Jane Smith | 1 | 0 | — |
| The Fourth Doctor | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of The Third Doctor
7 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 publishes none for some of them.

Extended Art
- Foil
- $1.12

Showcase
- Foil
- $12.09

- Normal
- $0.31
- Foil
- $0.30

Extended Art
- Normal
- $0.48
- Foil
- $0.42

Showcase
- Normal
- $0.47
- Foil
- $0.53

Showcase
- Foil
- $325.00

- Foil
- $0.57
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 Third Doctor. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.