The Wedding of River Song
Sorcery
Draw two cards, then you may exile a nonland card from your hand with a number of time counters on it equal to its mana value. Then target opponent does the same. Cards exiled this way that don't have suspend gain suspend.
Time travel. (For each suspended card you own and each permanent you control with a time counter on it, you may add or remove a time counter.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.51
- EDHREC rank
- #10555
The Wedding of River Song resets the time counter on The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler, effectively giving you a second lap through the entire Doctor Who saga on a single card. Six mana is the real cost — this is a midgame investment, not an opener — but the payoff is replaying every adventure trigger from scratch.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler advances through its saga by accumulating time counters, and The Wedding of River Song resets that counter to zero — meaning every chapter trigger fires again, doubling the total adventure count a single Doctor gets through in a game.
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 Wedding of River Song is a Commander card through and through — it exists to loop with The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler, a mechanic that only matters in a singleton format where you can't just run four copies of your payoff. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has no competitive application; no one is building around Doctor Who saga resets in those formats. Commander is the only context where the six-mana reset generates enough value to justify the slot, and even there it belongs only in dedicated Doctor Who builds rather than generic good-stuff piles.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.51 bulk tier
At $0.51, The Wedding of River Song sits squarely in bulk territory — easy to pick up without a second thought if you're building the right deck. Its niche audience keeps the price from climbing, so don't expect movement unless Doctor Who commander builds spike in popularity.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.