Bill Potts

Card text

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Bill Potts or activate an ability that targets only Bill Potts, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (as of 2026-11-11).

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Format legality

Legality of Bill Potts by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Bill Potts

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Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Bill Potts, newest first.

• 2023-10-13 The copy made by Bill's triggered ability is created on the stack, so it's not "cast" or "activated."
• 2023-10-13 The Doctor's companion ability allows you to have two commanders if one has the ability and the other is a legendary creature that is a Time Lord Doctor and has no other creature types. Creatures with the changeling ability, for example, can't be a second commander this way.
• 2023-10-13 If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities.
• 2023-10-13 If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
• 2023-10-13 Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined.
• 2023-10-13 If the spell or ability that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy will have the same value of X.
• 2023-10-13 Although Doctor's companion is a new variant of the partner ability, the rules for partner have not otherwise changed. Notably, Time Lord Doctors and cards with Doctor's companion do not interact with cards which have another partner ability.
• 2023-10-13 If the spell or ability that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one -" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.

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