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Idris, Soul of the TARDIS

Legendary Creature — Human Incarnation

Vanishing 3
Imprint — When Idris enters, exile another artifact you control until Idris leaves the battlefield.
Idris has all activated and triggered abilities of the exiled card and gets +X/+X, where X is the exiled card's mana value.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{U}{R}
Color identity
RU
Rarity
rare
Set
Doctor Who
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#19538
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Idris, Soul of the TARDIS card art
Idris, Soul of the TARDIS turns every untap trigger into a free loot, which means any artifact that untaps itself — Basalt Monolith with a little help, for instance — becomes a repeatable draw-and-discard engine on the board. The cost is real: you need artifact-heavy infrastructure before Idris does much, so it earns its slot in dedicated artifact lists and almost nowhere else.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Idris, Soul of the TARDIS lives — the format's slower clock gives you time to assemble the artifact base that makes her shine, and the 100-card singleton environment rewards engines that generate incremental value over multiple turns. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but have zero interest in a three-mana legendary that requires setup; those formats will never touch her. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case worth watching: a lower starting life total and faster games cut against her, but the right artifact-centric oathbreaker pairing could make the untap synergy relevant.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Idris, Soul of the TARDIS is firmly bulk, and that price reflects her narrow home — she's powerful inside artifact combo shells but close to unplayable outside them. Don't expect movement unless a new commander dramatically expands her synergy pool.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.