The Fugitive Doctor
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}{G}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- Doctor Who #417 (rare)
- Price
- $0.32 USD
When The Fugitive Doctor enters, investigate.
Whenever The Fugitive Doctor attacks, you may sacrifice a Clue. When you do, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback {2}{R}{G} until end of turn. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
The Fugitive Doctor has 6 printings, first in Doctor Who (2023). EDHREC ranks it #15,257 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Thirteenth Doctor // Yasmin Khan decks (338 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 11 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run The Fugitive Doctor
- Paradox Power - Doctor Who, led by Yasmin Khan
Commanders that run The Fugitive Doctor most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Thirteenth Doctor // Yasmin Khan: 338 decks
- The Fourteenth Doctor: 192 decks
Often played with The Fugitive Doctor
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- : Neither "Time" nor "Lord" are creature types. Some older cards were printed with the subtype "Lord," but all of those cards have updated Oracle card text that removed that type.
- : If a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.
- : If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
- : If you cast an instant or sorcery with {X} in its mana cost this way, you must choose 0 as the value of X. (You still have to pay {2}{R}{G}.)
- : If a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.
- : Unlike other creature types in Magic that are each only one word, the two words "Time Lord" represent a single creature subtype. Time Lord is the only two-word creature type.
- : "Investigate" means "Create a Clue token." A Clue token is a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- : A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- : "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."