The Fourteenth Doctor
Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor
When you cast this spell, reveal the top fourteen cards of your library. Put all Doctor cards revealed this way into your graveyard and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
You may have The Fourteenth Doctor enter as a copy of a Doctor card in your graveyard that was put there from your library this turn. If you do, it gains haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $112.74
- EDHREC rank
- #14323
The Fourteenth Doctor turns every spell you cast into a card, stapling a repeatable draw engine onto a two-mana body with no hoops to jump through. That rate — unconditional card advantage for WU at instant speed relevance — is the whole argument.
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 where The Fourteenth Doctor actually lives — a 100-card singleton format that rewards consistent card advantage, and a two-mana draw-on-cast engine is exactly the kind of card that pulls ahead over a long game. In Vintage and Legacy it's technically legal, but neither format has patience for a two-mana 2/2 that draws cards slowly when fast mana and one-mana threats set the pace. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if you're building around a spellslinger planeswalker, since the triggers stack quickly in a lower-card-count format. Everywhere it's illegal is no real loss — Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper all play at a pace or power ceiling where the Doctor's value accrues too slowly to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Niv-Mizzet, Parun fills a similar role in UR shells — drawing a card on every instant and sorcery — though it costs six mana and restricts your color identity. Jori En, Ruin Diver draws on your second spell each turn for only two mana in UR, which is a narrower trigger but an honest budget replacement at under a dollar when The Fourteenth Doctor's price is out of range.
Price Context
Current price
$112.74 premium tier
At $112.74, The Fourteenth Doctor sits firmly in the premium tier — a price driven by its status as a serialized or low-print-run crossover card rather than raw competitive demand. Whether it holds that value depends entirely on reprint availability; Doctor Who crossover cards have a narrow reprint window, which keeps prices elevated but also means the floor could drop sharply if a Commander precon reprint happens.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.