The Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor: Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor, Doctor Who. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{G}{U}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor
- Colour identity
- Blue and green (UG)
- Power / toughness
- 3/3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO)
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Collector number
- 159
- Artist
- Matt Stewart
- Commander rank
- 6,489 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Time Lord's Prerogative
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About The Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and green legendary creature from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 159 in that set, with art by Matt Stewart. It costs {4}{G}{U} (four generic, one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is blue and green. 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 $0.35 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Time Lord's Prerogative - Whenever you cast a historic spell, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
"This is a situation that requires tact and finesse. Fortunately, I am blessed with both!"
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.35 (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 Sixth 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 Sixth Doctor
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who (WHO) #1034 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #1148 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #443 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #557 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #557z | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #764 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to The Sixth 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.
- Usually, a historic spell won't have any targets. However, if it does have one or more targets, those targets will remain the same for the copy. You won't get to choose new targets.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
The Sixth Doctor is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.