The Girl in the Fireplace

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The Girl in the Fireplace: Enchantment - Saga, Doctor Who. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{W}
Mana value
3
Type
Enchantment - Saga
Colour identity
White (W)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Doctor Who (WHO)
Released
2023-10-13
Collector number
21
Artist
Torgeir Fjereide
Commander rank
13,556 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Time Travel

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About The Girl in the Fireplace

The Girl in the Fireplace is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white enchantment from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 21 in that set, with art by Torgeir Fjereide. It costs {2}{W} (two generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is white. 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 - Create a 1/1 white Human Noble creature token with vanishing 3 and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this token."

II - Create a 2/2 white Horse creature token with "Doctors you control have horsemanship." (They can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)

III - Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player this turn, time travel.

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 Girl in the Fireplace by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of The Girl in the Fireplace

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

PrintingRarityYear
Doctor Who (WHO) #626Rare2023

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to The Girl in the Fireplace, newest first.

  • To time travel, look at each permanent you control with a time counter on it and each suspended card you own in exile with a time counter on it. For each of them, you choose whether you want to put a time counter on that card or permanent, remove a time counter from it, or do neither. Then those changes all happen simultaneously.
  • Time counters are usually found on cards with suspend and vanishing, but may be found on other cards as well. Notably, Sagas use lore counters to track their progress, not time counters. You can't move a Saga's chapters forward and backward this way.

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