The First Doctor

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The First Doctor: Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor, Doctor Who. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{W}{U}
Mana value
3
Type
Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor
Colour identity
White and blue (WU)
Power / toughness
2/2
Rarity
Rare
Set
Doctor Who (WHO)
Released
2023-10-13
Collector number
128
Artist
Kieran Yanner
Commander rank
13,040 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Commander
Can be your commander

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About The First Doctor

The First Doctor is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white and blue legendary creature from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 128 in that set, with art by Kieran Yanner. It costs {1}{W}{U} (one generic, one white and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is white and blue. 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 $0.26 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

When The First Doctor enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a card named TARDIS, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (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 First Doctor by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of The First Doctor

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

PrintingRarityYear
Doctor Who (WHO) #1005Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #1143Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #414Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #552Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #552zRare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #733Rare2023

Official rulings

Four official rulings apply to The First Doctor, newest first.

  • If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You choose the target for The First Doctor's last ability before revealing any cards for cascade.

Similar cards

Other creature cards with a white and blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

The First Doctor is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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