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The Third Doctor

The Third Doctor

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor · {2}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander

Trample The Third Doctor gets +1/+1 for each noncreature token you control. When The Third Doctor enters, create your choice of a Clue token, a Food token, or a Treasure token.
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What The Third Doctor actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a The Third Doctor deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for The Third Doctor

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  2. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  3. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  4. Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
  5. Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
  6. Lilysplash Mentor4 mana
  7. Escape Protocol2 mana
  8. Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Gilded Goose1 mana
  2. Goldvein Hydra1 mana
  3. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  4. Tireless Provisioner3 mana
  5. Gala Greeters2 mana
  6. Prosperous Innkeeper2 mana
  7. The Goose Mother2 mana
  8. Peregrin Took3 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. The Thirteenth Doctor3 mana
  2. The Fourth Doctor4 mana
  3. The Third Doctor4 mana
  4. The Sixth Doctor6 mana
  5. Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist5 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  3. Simic Growth Chamber0 mana
  4. Temple of Mystery0 mana
  5. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  6. Hedge Maze0 mana
  7. Lotus Field0 mana
  8. Riveteers Overlook0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Mosswort Bridge0 mana
  2. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  3. Heroic Intervention2 mana
  4. Sylvan Safekeeper1 mana
  5. Tamiyo's Safekeeping1 mana
  6. Tyvar's Stand1 mana
  7. Veil of Summer1 mana
  8. Garruk's Uprising3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Simplify1 mana
  3. Filter Out3 mana
  4. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  5. Coercive Portal4 mana
  6. Needle Storm3 mana
  7. Whirlwind4 mana
  8. Whelming Wave4 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Reshape2 mana
  7. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  8. Mask of the Mimic1 mana

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