Time Beetle
Time Beetle: Creature - Alien Insect, Doctor Who. Skulk. Parallel Universe - Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, time travel. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Creature - Alien Insect
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO)
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Collector number
- 58
- Artist
- John Tedrick
- Commander rank
- 8,103 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Skulk, Parallel Universe, Time Travel
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About Time Beetle
Time Beetle is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue creature from Doctor Who (WHO), a Commander product released in October 2023. It is collector number 58 in that set, with art by John Tedrick. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue. 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 $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Parallel Universe - Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, time travel. (For each suspended card you own and each permanent you control with a time counter on it, you may add or remove a time counter.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (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 Time Beetle 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 Time Beetle
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who (WHO) #663 | Uncommon | 2023 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Time Beetle, newest first.
- Time counters are usually found on cards with suspend and vanishing, but may be found on other cards as well. Notably, Sagas use lore counters to track their progress, not time counters. You can't move a Saga's chapters forward and backward this way.
- To time travel, look at each permanent you control with a time counter on it and each suspended card you own in exile with a time counter on it. For each of them, you choose whether you want to put a time counter on that card or permanent, remove a time counter from it, or do neither. Then those changes all happen simultaneously.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Time Beetle is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
- Timey-Wimey (WHO), led by The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler