The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour card image

The Eleventh Hour: Enchantment - Saga, Doctor Who. I - Search your library for a Doctor card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. On Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}{U}
Mana value
4
Type
Enchantment - Saga
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Doctor Who (WHO)
Released
2023-10-13
Collector number
41
Artist
Matt Stewart
Commander rank
12,679 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Food

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About The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue enchantment from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 41 in that set, with art by Matt Stewart. It costs {3}{U} (three generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Doctor Who is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.30 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I - Search your library for a Doctor card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

II - Create a Food token and a 1/1 white Human creature token with "Doctor spells you cast cost {1} less to cast."

III - Create a token that's a copy of target creature, except it's a legendary Alien named Prisoner Zero.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.30 (as of 2026-11-12).

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

Format legality

Legality of The Eleventh Hour by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of The Eleventh Hour

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

PrintingRarityYear
Doctor Who (WHO) #646Rare2023

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for The Eleventh Hour, 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.
  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
  • The Eleventh Hour's first ability can find any card with the Doctor creature type, not cards with the word "Doctor" in the name.
  • The same is true for reducing the cost of Doctor spells.
  • Except for its name and types, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that permanent is copying something else or it is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, and so on.
  • The token will still have any card types it normally has, such as creature or artifact, but it will lose any non-Alien subtypes it has, such as Human or Vehicle.

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