Gallifrey Stands
Legendary Enchantment
When Gallifrey Stands enters, return all Doctor cards from your graveyard to your hand.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a Doctor creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Then if you control thirteen or more Doctors, you win the game.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #13318
Gallifrey Stands resets the battlefield from a losing position — exiling all permanents, then returning all creatures that died this turn to play under their owners' control at end of turn. The cost is steep: six mana at sorcery speed with a legendary restriction, so you're casting this when you're already behind and need a hard reset, not as a proactive play.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gallifrey Stands is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and multiplayer dynamics give you the time to reach six mana and the political leverage to justify a mass exile that resets everyone. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but practically irrelevant; no competitive shell wants a six-mana sorcery that hands opponents their creatures back. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander, though the faster pace of that format makes the six-mana ask harder to justify.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Gallifrey Stands is firmly bulk — a price that reflects its narrow application and the Dr. Who crossover set's limited competitive overlap. Bulk rares from specialty sets rarely climb without a breakout moment, and this card's ceiling is tied to Commander adoption, not eternal formats.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.