The Girl in the Fireplace
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create a 1/1 white Human Noble creature token with vanishing 3 and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this token."
II — Create a 2/2 white Horse creature token with "Doctors you control have horsemanship." (They can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
III — Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player this turn, time travel.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #13049
The Girl in the Fireplace drops a 2/2 with a triggered ability that generates Clockwork Soldier tokens whenever your Historic spells connect with opponents — meaningful board presence that compounds quickly in the right shell. The cost is total dependency on The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler or a similarly adventure-dense commander to fire reliably; without that engine, the token generation is too slow to matter.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler is the natural home for The Girl in the Fireplace — the Doctor's adventure-heavy design means Historic spells hit the board constantly, turning every swing into a token flood that supports the Doctor's own combat-damage triggers.
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 Girl in the Fireplace is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive ceiling outside Commander is essentially zero — Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 2/2 that asks you to attack with Historic spells. In Commander, the card lives and dies in The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler decks, where the Historic-spell density is high enough to make the token trigger a real engine; in any other Commander shell, it's a niche role-player at best. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where a dedicated Historic or adventure-matters planeswalker could extract value, but the card never rises above situational there either.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, The Girl in the Fireplace is pure bulk — a snap-include on price alone if you're already building The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler. Bulk rares tied to a single Commander niche rarely appreciate, so there's no reason to stock up beyond the copies you'll actually sleeve.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.