The Eighth Doctor

The Eighth Doctor

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor

Mana cost: {4}{W}{U}

How we read this card

When The Eighth Doctor enters, mill three cards.

triggered — mills a card

Once during each of your turns, you may play a historic land or cast a historic permanent spell from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "If this permanent would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."

static — brings a card back

static — grants a keyword

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: mill a card, play a land, a land leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a land in a graveyard.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Polymorph — Polymorph can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Mass Polymorph — Mass Polymorph can put The Eighth Doctor onto the battlefield from your library

12 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land is played — 97 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

When a land plays a land thanks to The Eighth Doctor:

  1. Flubs, the Fool — draws you 1 card
  2. Infernal Sovereign — draws you 1 card
  3. Shadow of the Goblin — deals 1 damage
  4. The Endstone — draws you 1 card
  5. Horn of Greed — makes a player draw 1 card
  6. Pangosaur — triggers
  7. City of Traitors — sacrifices itself

7 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

put a land into a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Cephalid Coliseum — Cephalid Coliseum puts cards into the graveyard that The Eighth Doctor can bring back
  2. Urza's Saga — When Urza's Saga is in the graveyard, The Eighth Doctor can bring it back
  3. Magus of the Balance — Magus of the Balance puts cards into the graveyard that The Eighth Doctor can bring back
  4. Inventors' Fair — When Inventors' Fair is in the graveyard, The Eighth Doctor can bring it back
  5. Restore Balance — Restore Balance puts cards into the graveyard that The Eighth Doctor can bring back
  6. Sequestered Stash — Sequestered Stash puts cards into the graveyard that The Eighth Doctor can bring back
  7. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale — When The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale is in the graveyard, The Eighth Doctor can bring it back
  8. Dreamscape Artist — Dreamscape Artist puts cards into the graveyard that The Eighth Doctor can bring back
  9. Soldevi Sage — Soldevi Sage puts cards into the graveyard that The Eighth Doctor can bring back
  10. Dark Depths — When Dark Depths is in the graveyard, The Eighth Doctor can bring it back

624 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

When a land leaves a graveyard thanks to The Eighth Doctor:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Thor, God of Thunder — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Thor, God of Thunder can bring back
  4. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  5. Harness the Storm — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  6. Transplant Theorist — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  7. Heart-Shaped Herb — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  8. Wayward Angel — The Eighth Doctor fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  9. Rescue from the Underworld — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  10. Victimize — The Eighth Doctor puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back

434 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to The Eighth Doctor:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

When The Eighth Doctor attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Invisible Woman — triggers
  4. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  5. Guide of Souls — triggers
  6. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food
  7. Gossip's Talent — triggers

120 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

When The Eighth Doctor attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Saw — sacrifices a creature

197 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature blocks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

  1. Tide of War — When The Eighth Doctor blocks, Tide of War sacrifices a creature

29 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (The Eighth Doctor is one).

When The Eighth Doctor enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Gimli of the Glittering Caves — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  4. Legolas Greenleaf — puts a counter on a permanent
  5. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  6. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  7. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  8. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

342 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this.

When The Eighth Doctor:

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Mirrorpool — enters because Mirrorpool copies it, its ability triggers again
  3. Endless Sands — enters thanks to Endless Sands, it mills a card
  4. Northampton Farm — enters thanks to Northampton Farm, it mills a card

56 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.