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The Fourth Doctor
Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor
The Fourth Doctor wants a deck that casts extra spells for free off the top of its deck. It leads the ready-made Blast from the Past deck (2023).
- Mana cost
- Blue, Green ()
- Power / toughness4 / 4
- RarityMythic
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Would You Like A...? — Once each turn, you may play a historic land or cast a historic spell from the top of your library. When you do, create a Food token. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
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Cards That Fit The Fourth Doctor
Picked for what they do in The Fourth Doctor's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit The Fourth Doctor's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.
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Decks Led by The Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor leads a ready-made deck.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary
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Blast from the PastOfficial precon
All 100 Cards
Commander · 2
Other cards · 98
- 1×Ace, Fearless Rebel
- 1×Ace's Baseball Bat
- 1×Adric, Mathematical Genius
- 1×Alistair, the Brigadier
- 1×An Unearthly Child
- 1×Arcane Signet
- 1×Ash Barrens
- 1×Banish to Another Universe
- 1×Barbara Wright
- 1×Bessie, the Doctor's Roadster
- 1×Canopy Vista
- 1×Celestial Colonnade
- 1×City of Death
- 1×Command Tower
- 1×Crisis of Conscience
- 1×Day of Destiny
- 1×Deserted Beach
- 1×Displaced Dinosaurs
- 1×Dreamroot Cascade
- 1×Duggan, Private Detective
- 1×Exotic Orchard
- 1×Explore
- 1×Five Hundred Year Diary
- 3×Forest
- 1×Fortified Village
- 1×Gallifrey Council Chamber
- 1×Gallifrey Stands
- 1×Glacial Fortress
- 1×Hero's Blade
- 1×Heroes' Podium
- 1×Heroic Intervention
- 1×Horizon Canopy
- 1×Ian Chesterton
- 1×Irrigated Farmland
- 2×Island
- 1×Jamie McCrimmon
- 1×Jo Grant
- 1×K-9, Mark I
- 1×Leela, Sevateem Warrior
- 1×Mind Stone
- 1×Nyssa of Traken
- 1×Overgrown Farmland
- 1×Path of Ancestry
- 1×Path to Exile
- 1×Peri Brown
- 2×Plains
- 1×Port Town
- 1×Prairie Stream
- 1×Return to Dust
- 1×Reverse the Polarity
- 1×Romana II
- 1×Scattered Groves
- 1×Seaside Citadel
- 1×Sergeant John Benton
- 1×Skycloud Expanse
- 1×Sol Ring
- 1×Sonic Screwdriver
- 1×Sungrass Prairie
- 1×Susan Foreman
- 1×Swords to Plowshares
- 1×Talisman of Progress
- 1×Talisman of Unity
- 1×TARDIS
- 1×Tegan Jovanka
- 1×Temple of Enlightenment
- 1×Temple of Mystery
- 1×Temple of Plenty
- 1×The Caves of Androzani
- 1×The Curse of Fenric
- 1×The Eighth Doctor
- 1×The Fifth Doctor
- 1×The First Doctor
- 1×The Five Doctors
- 1×The Night of the Doctor
- 1×The Sea Devils
- 1×The Second Doctor
- 1×The Seventh Doctor
- 1×The Sixth Doctor
- 1×The Third Doctor
- 1×The War Games
- 1×Thought Vessel
- 1×Three Visits
- 1×Thriving Grove
- 1×Thriving Heath
- 1×Thriving Isle
- 1×Time Lord Regeneration
- 1×Time Wipe
- 1×Traverse Eternity
- 1×Trenzalore Clocktower
- 1×Trial of a Time Lord
- 1×Twice Upon a Time // Unlikely Meeting
- 1×Vineglimmer Snarl
- 1×Vrestin, Menoptra Leader
- 1×Waterlogged Grove
Rulings for The Fourth Doctor
explain how The Fourth Doctor works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary
Essentially, The Fourth Doctor lets you play with the top card of your library revealed only to you. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand. You may look at the top card of your library whenever you want, even if you don't have priority. This action doesn't use the stack.
If an effect instructs you to choose a creature type, you may choose Time Lord.
If the top card of your library changes during the process of casting a spell or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until the process of casting the spell or activating the ability ends (all targets are chosen, all costs are paid, and so on).
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.
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.
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
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