The Five Doctors
Sorcery
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Search your library and/or graveyard for up to five Doctor cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If this spell was kicked, put those cards onto the battlefield instead of putting them into your hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #14533
The Five Doctors puts five 1/1 tokens with different abilities onto the battlefield simultaneously — that's immediate board presence across five axes for a single spell. The cost is real, but five distinct creatures at once is the kind of card that warps combat math the moment it resolves.
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 Five Doctors — singleton builds that want variety in their token packages, and multiplayer tables where five bodies with different abilities generate meaningful political and combat options. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically on the books, but neither format has any reason to touch it; the effect is too slow and scattered for those environments. Outside Commander and Oathbreaker, this card doesn't have a competitive context worth discussing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, The Five Doctors sits firmly in bulk territory — it's a casual pickup that won't stress any budget. Bulk rares with niche appeal tend to stay flat or drift lower, so treat it as a low-risk slot for the right deck rather than anything to acquire in quantity.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.