The Valeyard

The Valeyard card image

The Valeyard: Legendary Creature - Time Lord Noble, Doctor Who. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{U}{B}{R}
Mana value
5
Type
Legendary Creature - Time Lord Noble
Colour identity
Blue, black and red (UBR)
Power / toughness
4/5
Rarity
Rare
Set
Doctor Who (WHO)
Released
2023-10-13
Collector number
165
Artist
Tyukina Tatiana
Commander rank
8,311 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Commander
Can be your commander

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About The Valeyard

The Valeyard is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue, black and red legendary creature from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 165 in that set, with art by Tyukina Tatiana. It costs {2}{U}{B}{R} (two generic, one blue, one black and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It is a 4/5 creature. Its colour identity is blue, black 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 $0.43 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

If an opponent would face a villainous choice, they face that choice an additional time. (They can make the same or different choices.)

While voting, you may vote an additional time.

"The most damning is still to come. And when I have finished, this court will demand your life!"

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.43 (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 Valeyard by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of The Valeyard

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

PrintingRarityYear
Doctor Who (WHO) #1041Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #450Rare2023
Doctor Who (WHO) #770Rare2023

Official rulings

Three official rulings apply to The Valeyard, newest first.

  • 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.
  • 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.

Similar cards

Other creature cards with a blue, black and red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

The Valeyard is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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