The Fifteenth Doctor
Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor
Whenever The Fifteenth Doctor enters or attacks, mill three cards. You may put an artifact card with mana value 2 or 3 from among them into your hand.
The first nonartifact spell you cast each turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 
.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $34.67
- EDHREC rank
- #14938
The Fifteenth Doctor turns every adventure spell into a free card — cast the instant or sorcery half, exile it, then cast the creature half without paying its mana cost. Two mana for a 1/1 is a nothing body, but the engine it enables in adventure-dense shells is real enough to build around.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for The Fifteenth Doctor — 100-card singleton gives you enough adventure density across green, white, and red to make the free cast trigger fire consistently, and a 1/1 for two is easy to slot into any support role. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats but offer no competitive incentive; adventure payoffs haven't broken into those environments, and a 1/1 for two with a conditional trigger is far too slow for either. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth noting: as a signature spell shell built around adventure cards, The Fifteenth Doctor could headline a focused build, though the format's smaller card pool limits how deep the adventure package runs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Edgewall Innkeeper is the closest functional analog at under $0.50 — it draws a card for each adventure creature you cast rather than giving you the creature free, which is a real downgrade on raw mana efficiency but still generates card advantage in the same shells. The Fifteenth Doctor's free cast is categorically stronger than any pure draw replacement, so if budget forces a swap, expect to lose tempo rather than just card selection.
Price Context
Current price
$34.67 premium tier
At $34.67, The Fifteenth Doctor sits in premium territory for a card that does nothing without a critical mass of adventure spells — it's a build-around price tag for a build-around card. That price is driven by low reprint availability and cross-appeal to Doctor Who collectors, so players who want it purely for gameplay should act before any reprint compresses it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.