The Fugitive Doctor

Mana Value

5

Rarity

rare

The Fugitive Doctor

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor

{3}{R}{G}
Color Identity: G R

Card 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.)

Power/Toughness: 4/4

Keywords

Investigate

Set

Doctor Who

(WHO)

EDHREC Rank

#13,457

Commander Legal

✓ Can be your Commander

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

Wotc — 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."

Wotc — 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.

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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.

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

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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}.)

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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