Madame Vastra

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Madame Vastra: Legendary Creature - Lizard Detective, Doctor Who. Partner with Jenny Flint. Madame Vastra must be blocked if able. On Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{G}{U}
Mana value
4
Type
Legendary Creature - Lizard Detective
Colour identity
Blue and green (UG)
Power / toughness
3/3
Rarity
Rare
Set
Doctor Who (WHO)
Released
2023-10-13
Collector number
142
Artist
Syd Mills
Commander rank
20,411 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Food, Partner, Partner with
Commander
Can be your commander

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About Madame Vastra

Madame Vastra is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and green legendary creature from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 142 in that set, with art by Syd Mills. It costs {2}{G}{U} (two generic, one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Doctor Who is its only printing so far. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.25 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Partner with Jenny Flint (When this creature enters, target player may put Jenny Flint into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)

Madame Vastra must be blocked if able.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Madame Vastra this turn dies, create a Clue token and a Food token.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.25 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Madame Vastra by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Madame Vastra

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Doctor Who (WHO) #1016Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #425Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #747Rare2023

Official rulings

Seven official rulings apply to Madame Vastra, newest first.

  • Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
  • Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
  • 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.
  • "Partner with [name]" represents two abilities. The first is a triggered ability: "When this permanent enters the battlefield, target player may search their library for a card named [name], reveal it, put it into their hand, then shuffle."
  • The second ability represented by the "partner with [name]" keyword modifies the rules for deck construction in the Commander variant and has no function outside of that variant. If a legendary creature card with "partner with [name]" is designated as your commander, the named legendary creature card can also be designated as your commander.
  • If Madame Vastra is blocking or being blocked by another creature and both of those creatures are dealt lethal combat damage at the same time, they each die at the same time and the last ability will trigger.
  • Note that the target player searches their library (which may be affected by effects such as that of Stranglehold) and that the card they find is revealed, even though these words aren't included in the ability's reminder text.

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