The Ninth Doctor
The Ninth Doctor: Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor, Doctor Who. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{R}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor
- Colour identity
- Blue and red (UR)
- Power / toughness
- 2/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO)
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Collector number
- 148
- Artist
- Colin Boyer
- Commander rank
- 7,025 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Into the TARDIS, Haste
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About The Ninth Doctor
The Ninth Doctor is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and red legendary creature from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 148 in that set, with art by Colin Boyer. It costs {1}{U}{R} (one generic, one blue and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/4 creature. Its colour identity is blue and red. 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 $0.33 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Haste
Into the TARDIS - Whenever The Ninth Doctor becomes untapped during your untap step, you get an additional upkeep step after this step.
"Fantastic!"
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.33 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of The Ninth Doctor 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 Ninth Doctor
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who (WHO) #1023 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #1151 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #432 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #560 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #560z | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #753 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to The Ninth Doctor, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.
- If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
- The Ninth Doctor's ability triggers during the untap step and goes onto the stack at the beginning of the next step (usually the upkeep). The additional upkeep is taken after that step, not after the untap step.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue and red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
The Ninth Doctor is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
- Timey-Wimey (WHO), led by The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler