The Thirteenth Doctor
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Team TARDIS — At the beginning of your end step, untap each creature you control with a counter on it.
Combos with The Thirteenth 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.
- Gogo, Master of Mimicry Infinite
- Infinite mana creatures you control with counters on them can produce
- Infinite untap of creatures you control with counters on them
- Crystalline Crawler Gravecrawler Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Crystalline Crawler Gravecrawler Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite storm count
- Crystalline Crawler Gravecrawler Carrion Feeder Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Crystalline Crawler Gravecrawler Altar of Dementia Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mill
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-mill
- Infinite storm count
- Falco Spara, Pactweaver Sensei's Divining Top Savvy Trader Infinite
- Near-infinite artifact ETB
- Near-infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite storm count
- Squee, the Immortal Crystalline Crawler Ashnod's Altar Hardened Scales Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Squee, the Immortal Crystalline Crawler Ashnod's Altar Branching Evolution Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
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
8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 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
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 a spell or ability allows you to copy a spell on the stack but doesn't specify that the spell is cast, that spell wasn't cast and won't be counted by paradox abilities. However, if a spell or ability allows you to cast a copy of a spell, that spell will be counted for paradox abilities.
- 2023-10-13
An instant or sorcery that counts how many spells you've cast from anywhere other than your hand, such as Surge of Brilliance, counts itself if it was cast from a zone other than your hand.
- 2023-10-13
A triggered ability that triggers when a spell is cast from anywhere other than your hand, such as that of The Thirteenth Doctor, functions only on the battlefield, so it doesn't trigger when you cast that spell from a zone other than your hand.
- 2023-10-13
Paradox abilities count any spells cast from zones other than your hand. These are usually spells cast from exile, the graveyard, or the command zone. They also count spells cast from outside the game, such as spells cast with Wish or Garth One-Eye's ability.
- 2023-10-13
If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
- 2023-10-13
The Thirteenth Doctor's last ability untaps creatures you control with any kind of counter on them, not just creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with The Thirteenth Doctor in the command zone.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Thirteenth Doctor, whatever its commander.
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 Thirteenth 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.
Extended Art
- Foil
- $2.82
Showcase
- Foil
- $22.72
Etched
- Etched
- $0.22
- Foil
- $0.39
Extended Art
- Normal
- $2.40
- Foil
- $1.93
Showcase
- Normal
- $3.09
- Foil
- $2.74
Showcase
- Foil
- —
- Foil
- $1.36
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 Thirteenth 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.