The Fugitive Doctor

Printings

  • Doctor Who (WHO)#130
  • Doctor Who (WHO)#1132
  • Doctor Who (WHO)#735
  • Doctor Who (WHO)#541
  • Doctor Who (WHO)#417
  • Doctor Who (WHO)#1008

The Fugitive Doctor

Card Information

Type: Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor

Mana Cost: 3Red manaGreen mana

CMC: 5

Part of the Reserved List: No

Color Identity: Mana symbol for GMana symbol for R

Set: Doctor Who (WHO)

Rarity: Rare

Collector Number: 130

Oracle Text

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.)

Keywords

Investigate

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Not Legal)
penny(Not Legal)
predh(Not Legal)
future(Not Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Not Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Not Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Not Legal)
standard(Not Legal)
timeless(Not Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Not Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Not Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Related Cards

Clue(Token Artifact — Clue)
The Fugitive Doctor(Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor)

Card Rulings

  1. October 13, 2023

    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.

    Source: wotc
  2. October 13, 2023

    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.

    Source: wotc
  3. October 13, 2023

    If a card has multiple instances of flashback, you may choose any of its flashback costs to pay.

    Source: wotc
  4. October 13, 2023

    If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.

    Source: wotc
  5. October 13, 2023

    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}.)

    Source: wotc
  6. October 13, 2023

    If a split card gains flashback, you pay only the cost of the half you're casting.

    Source: wotc
  7. October 13, 2023

    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.

    Source: wotc
  8. October 13, 2023

    "Investigate" means "Create a Clue token." A Clue token is a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."

    Source: wotc
  9. October 13, 2023

    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.

    Source: wotc
  10. October 13, 2023

    A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

    Source: wotc
  11. October 13, 2023

    "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."

    Source: wotc

Price History

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