The Third Doctor
The Third Doctor: Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor, Doctor Who. Trample. The Third Doctor gets +1/+1 for each noncreature token you control. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}{U}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor
- Colour identity
- Blue and green (UG)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO)
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Collector number
- 162
- Artist
- Ekaterina Burmak
- Commander rank
- 9,448 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Treasure, Food, Trample
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About The Third Doctor
The Third 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 162 in that set, with art by Ekaterina Burmak. It costs {2}{G}{U} (two generic, one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 2/2 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 $0.27 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Trample
The Third Doctor gets +1/+1 for each noncreature token you control.
When The Third Doctor enters, create your choice of a Clue token, a Food token, or a Treasure token.
"It's rather a pity, in a way. Now the universe is down to 699 wonders."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.27 (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 Third 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 Third Doctor
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who (WHO) #1038 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #1145 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #447 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #554 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #554z | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #767 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to The Third Doctor, newest first.
- Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
- You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
- 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.
- 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.
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 Third Doctor is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.