Start the TARDIS
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Doctor Who #56 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.30 USD
Surveil 2, then draw a card. You may planeswalk. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)
Start the TARDIS has 2 printings, first in Doctor Who (2023). EDHREC ranks it #13,767 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (937 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 7 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 Start the TARDIS
- Paradox Power - Doctor Who, led by Yasmin Khan
Commanders that run Start the TARDIS most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 937 decks
- The Thirteenth Doctor // Yasmin Khan: 726 decks
- Neerdiv, Devious Diver: 692 decks
- Octavia, Living Thesis: 336 decks
- Matoya, Archon Elder: 198 decks
- The Fourteenth Doctor: 34 decks
- Osgood, Operation Double: 14 decks
- The Twelfth Doctor: 10 decks
Often played with Start the TARDIS
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : When casting a spell with jump-start, 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 jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- : If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
- : If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
- : You may planeswalk only in games using the Planechase variant. If you are instructed to planeswalk in any other game, nothing happens.
- : A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
- : You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.
- : When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.