This Is How It Ends
This Is How It Ends: Instant, Doctor Who. MTG card details, printings, market prices, official rulings, and format legality, all in one place on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO)
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Collector number
- 70
- Artist
- Eliz Roxs
- Commander rank
- 8,418 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About This Is How It Ends
This Is How It Ends is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black instant from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 70 in that set, with art by Eliz Roxs. It costs {3}{B} (three generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is black. 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 $0.30 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Target creature's owner shuffles it into their library, then faces a villainous choice - They lose 5 life, or they shuffle another creature they own into their library.
"There's a gravestone here for someone with the same name as me."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.30 (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 This Is How It Ends 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 This Is How It Ends
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who (WHO) #373 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #675 | Rare | 2023 |
| Doctor Who (WHO) #964 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to This Is How It Ends, newest first.
- If a spell or ability requires multiple players to face a villainous choice, the result is a little different from other effects in Magic. In that case, the first player in turn order makes their choice and the action for that choice is performed before the next player makes their choice. Then each of the remaining players repeat this process in turn order.
- A player facing a villainous choice can always choose either option, even if one or both of the options are impossible. For example, if one of the options is to sacrifice a creature, a player who controls no creatures can still choose that option.
- When a player faces a villainous choice, they first choose one of the two options, then all actions in the chosen option are performed.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
This Is How It Ends is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.