The Day of the Doctor
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary card. You may play that card for as long as this Saga remains on the battlefield. Put the rest of those exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
IV — Choose up to three Doctors. You may exile all other creatures. If you do, this Saga deals 13 damage to you.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14131
The Day of the Doctor lands as a legendary enchantment that creates Doctor tokens and generates time counter-based value, but a five-mana enchantment needs to do more than trickle out advantage to justify a slot. It earns its place only in dedicated Doctor Who tribal builds where the token synergies are already online.
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 |
The Day of the Doctor is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander — the singleton format's slower clock and tribal-friendly table politics give it the most room to breathe. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana for an enchantment that doesn't immediately win or protect itself is a non-starter against the raw efficiency of those formats. Commander is where The Day of the Doctor makes sense, and even then narrowly: you want a Doctor-tribal shell that can exploit the token generation before the enchantment gets answered.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for The Day of the Doctor isn't currently available in our records — check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest. Given its narrow tribal application, it's unlikely to command a premium outside dedicated Doctor Who collector demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.