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The Twelfth Doctor
Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor · {3}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander
The first spell you cast from anywhere other than your hand each turn has demonstrate. (When you cast that spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever you copy a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on The Twelfth Doctor.
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What The Twelfth Doctor actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever you copy a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on The Twelfth Doctor.
- AbilityThe first spell you cast from anywhere other than your hand each turn has demonstrate.
What a The Twelfth Doctor deck needs
Plays as spell copies. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- spells cast from outside your hand (the first each turn has demonstrate)
- copy effects (each copy grows it)
The The Twelfth Doctor deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 14× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
Best cards for The Twelfth 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.
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Vexing Radgull2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Kid Loki1 mana
- Dreamtide Whale3 mana
- Flux Channeler3 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Jilt2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Izzet Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
- Sol Talisman0 mana
- Underworld Breach2 mana
- Faithless Looting1 mana
- Snapcaster Mage2 mana
- Hidden Cataract0 mana
- Hidden Volcano0 mana
- Lotus Bloom0 mana
- Mox Tantalite0 mana
Combos with The Twelfth Doctor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that The Twelfth Doctor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- The Twelfth Doctor + Increasing Vengeance535 decks
- The Twelfth Doctor + Kess, Dissident Mage + Glorious End233 decks
- The Twelfth Doctor + Charismatic Conqueror + Serra Paragon1 decks
- The Twelfth Doctor + Charismatic Conqueror + Fortune Teller's Talent1 decks
- The Twelfth Doctor + Charismatic Conqueror + Vizier Of The Menagerie
- The Twelfth Doctor + Charismatic Conqueror + One With The Multiverse