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The Face of Boe

Legendary Creature — Alien Advisor

{T}: You may cast a spell with suspend from your hand. If you do, pay its suspend cost rather than its mana cost. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{U}{R}{W}
Color identity
RUW
Rarity
rare
Set
Doctor Who
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#15862
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The Face of Boe card art
The Face of Boe turns any life-gain trigger into a repeatable card-draw engine — three life spent draws a card, which is an absurd rate when you're generating life in bulk. The companion cost is real, but in a dedicated life-gain shell built around The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler or Auriok Salvagers loops, the deckbuilding constraint is barely felt.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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The Tenth DoctorRose Tyler

The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler

42.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler is the natural home for The Face of Boe — the Doctor's adventure mechanic generates life-gain triggers constantly, and The Face of Boe converts every one of those triggers into card advantage, turning a flavor match into a genuine engine.

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 The Face of Boe does its best work — 40 life and multiplayer board states mean plenty of time to convert the life-to-draw ability into a commanding card-advantage lead. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically there, but a three-mana companion with a life-gain deckbuilding restriction has no competitive footing in either format. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for similar reasons as Commander: higher starting life and synergy-forward deckbuilding reward the engine more than fast, low-to-the-ground formats would.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for The Face of Boe isn't available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given its narrow but devoted Commander audience, it tends to hold value steadily rather than spike — pick it up when you're ready to build around it rather than speculating.

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