The Pandorica
Legendary Artifact
You may choose not to untap The Pandorica during your untap step.
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: Untap another target nonland permanent, then it phases out. It can't phase in for as long as The Pandorica remains tapped. When The Pandorica becomes untapped or leaves the battlefield, that permanent phases in. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #13091
The Pandorica puts every opponent to a brutal ultimatum — sacrifice their entire board, hand, and graveyard, or let it resolve and lock one player in an inescapable prison — but the catch is steep: you have to pull off something in the spirit of Kaervek's Spite and pay life, sacrifice creatures, and discard your hand just to cast it. It's a one-of-a-kind bomb in The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler decks that can cheat it into play, and a near-unplayable pipe dream in anything that has to hard-cast it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler's "Companionship" ability lets you adventure into The Pandorica for free off the top of your library, completely bypassing the ruinous sacrifice-and-discard cost — which transforms it from a trap rare into a legitimate threat that can lock an opponent out of the game the turn it's discovered.
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 Pandorica is a Commander card through and through — the chaos of a four-player table is exactly where forcing opponents to choose between mass self-destruction and permanent imprisonment creates the most disruption. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the casting cost is so prohibitive that no competitive shell would ever register it. Oathbreaker gives it a smaller stage, but the same cheat-it-in logic applies: without a commander or spell that bypasses the cost, it sits in hand doing nothing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, The Pandorica is bulk, which makes it an easy pickup for any Doctor Who deck that wants the singleton. Don't expect the price to move — its appeal is almost entirely locked to one commander pairing, which keeps demand narrow.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kaervek's Spite
- The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
- Barren Glory
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.