The Moment
The Moment: Legendary Artifact, Doctor Who. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on The Moment. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO)
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Collector number
- 180
- Artist
- Patrik Hell
- Commander rank
- 13,786 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About The Moment
The Moment is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless legendary artifact from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 180 in that set, with art by Patrik Hell. It costs {2} (two generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It has no colour identity. 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 $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on The Moment.
{2}, {T}: Untap target creature you control. It phases out until The Moment leaves the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of time counters on The Moment. Then sacrifice The Moment. Activate only as a sorcery.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of The Moment by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of The Moment
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who (WHO) #1050 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #459 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #785 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for The Moment, newest first.
- Phasing out doesn't cause any "leaves the battlefield" abilities to trigger. Similarly, phasing in won't cause any "enters the battlefield" abilities to trigger.
- If The Moment leaves the battlefield before its first activated ability resolves, the target creature will be untapped, but won't phase out.
- While a permanent is phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It can't be the target of spells or abilities, its static abilities have no effect on the game, its triggered abilities can't trigger, it can't attack or block, and so on.
- A creature phased out by The Moment doesn't phase in during its controller's untap step as normal. Rather, it phases in immediately after The Moment leaves the battlefield.
- Any continuous effects with a "for as long as" duration ignore phased-out objects. Any such effects will expire if their conditions are no longer met after ignoring the phased-out objects.
- Any one-shot effects that are waiting "until [this] leaves the battlefield," won't happen when a permanent phases out.
- Each Aura and Equipment attached to a permanent that's phasing out also phases out. They will phase in with that permanent and still be attached to it. Similarly, permanents that phase out with counters phase in with those counters.
- Abilities that trigger when a creature becomes tapped won't trigger when the creature phases in tapped.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
The Moment is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
- Timey-Wimey (WHO), led by The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler