Universes Beyond: Doctor Who

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Universes Beyond: Doctor Who
Publisher:	Wizards of the Coast
Type:	Trading card game
Release date:	13 October 2023

Universes Beyond: Doctor Who is a set of Doctor Who themed Magic: The Gathering trading game cards that will be released by Wizards of the Coast on 13 October 2023. The set was announced 18 August 2022.

The Doctor Who set was part of Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond series, which utilises the worlds, characters, and stories of other intellectual properties while featuring the gameplay of Magic: The Gathering. The Doctor Who set was the third major Universes Beyond release (not including special Secret Lair releases and Universes Beyond cards available in regular sets).

The product release was comprised of four 100-card Commander decks, collector boosters, and tie-in Secret Lairs. The main set contains 200 new Doctor Who themed cards as well as Doctor Who themed reprints of regular Magic: The Gathering cards. Doctor Who was the first Commander deck release to include collector boosters, with no additional new cards, that only feature alternate art versions of the cards in the decks.

The Decks and New Cards

Each of the Commander decks is based around a specific theme featuring Doctor Who characters and Magic: The Gathering mechanics that fit into that theme. Every Doctor card is a two-colour Legendary Creature card, while every companion card is a mono-colour Legendary Creature card. Doctor's Companion is a partner variant keyword ability featured on these companion cards that allows you to designate that companion as part of a Commander pair so long as the other partner card is a Doctor (any version of the Doctor with the creature type exactly, and not anything in addition to, Time Lord Doctor). For the purposes of designing the decks, companions were defined as someone who stays with the Doctor and travels with them for a long time.

Each Commander deck package contains:

• One foil Commander (The Doctor card for decks with a Doctor-Companion Commander pair or Davros, Dalek Creator for the Masters of Evil deck)
• The remaining 99 cards of the deck
• 10 oversized Doctor Who themed Planechase cards featuring 9 planes and 1 phenomenon as well as one six-sided planar die
• 10 double-sided tokens featuring Doctor Who themes
• A deck box and a life wheel for tracking the player's life total
• A 2-card sample collector booster pack

There are 50 mechanically new Doctor Who cards per deck with the remaining 50 cards being Doctor Who themed reprints of regular Magic: The Gathering cards.

Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past is a green, white, and blue deck focused on historic spells and planeswalking. The deck highlights the classic era of the show from 1963 to 1996 including all eight classic Doctors with The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith being the face Commander pair of the deck.

New Cards

Card Name	Card Colour(s)	Cart Art & Function	Reference
The First Doctor Kieran Yanner	Blue & White	The First Doctor in his TARDIS at his console with smoke emanating from it.
The Second Doctor
The Third Doctor
The Fourth Doctor David Auden Nash	Blue & Green	The Fourth Doctor, smiling, presenting a paper bag of jelly babies to the viewer with his fedora in his other hand in a salute. The TARDIS console and roundels can be seen in the background. Allows you to look at the top card of your library at any time and play historic lands or spells from the top of your library using the ability word "Would You Like A... ?". Creates a bag of jelly babies as a Food token.
The Fifth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor
The Seventh Doctor
The Eighth Doctor			The Night of the Doctor
Susan Foreman	Green
Sarah Jane Smith Fajareka Setiawan	White	Sarah manoeuvering around some barbed wire and rocks on Exxilon wearing her first outfit for The Time Warrior. Whenever you cast a historic spell, Sarah - a Detective - investigates.	Death to the Daleks
Adric, Mathematical Genius Billy Christian		Adric looking at the console of Briggs's freighter after it was damaged by a Cyberman. Prehistoric Earth can be seen on the monitor in the background.	Earthshock
K-9, Mark 1 Nerendra Bintara Adi		K-9 levitating in a generic spaceship corridor.
City of Death Miklós Ligeti	Green	Count Carlos Scarlioni as a human having a drink, Duggan, multiple paintings of Mona Lisa (the visible ones show Duggan, Scaroth in his Jagaroth form and The Fourth Doctor all posing as Mona Lisa), and The Fourth Doctor. Episode saga card. Creates a Treasure token and then five more token copies mimicking the six Mona Lisa copies.	City of Death
Reverse the Polarity Randy Gallegos		The Third Doctor brandishing his sonic screwdriver with a circular "wave" effect emmanating from it.
Time Lord Regeneration Elizabeth Peiró		Montage of The Fifth Doctor's companions (Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion, Nyssa, and Adric) as they appeared to him in his hallucination during his regeneration sequence.	The Caves of Androzani
TARDIS Chris Ostrowski	Colourless	The TARDIS in flight above a ringed planet in the foreground with other planets in the background. Vehicle that potentially grants you a free spell (cascade) and a way to travel to a new destination (planeswalk) if you control a Time Lord when it attacks.
Alien Insect	Green & White Token	A Menoptera in flight.	The Web Planet
Food	Colourless Token	A paper bag of jelly babies. Created by The Fourth Doctor card.
Treasure File:DWUB Treasure.jpg Justyna Dura	Colourless Token	Romana II in a painting posing as Mona Lisa behind a red rope barrier in a museum. Created by the City of Death card.	City of Death

New Planar Cards

Card Name	Plane	Card Art & Function	Reference
TARDIS Bay Erikas Perl	Gallifrey	Four TARDIS in a row. One TARDIS has its door open showing the console and roundels matching the initial First Doctor's TARDIS's interior design. Grants you a free spell (just like the TARDIS's cascade), then you steal a TARDIS and run away (planeswalk)	The War Games

Timey-Wimey

Timey-Wimey is a blue, red, and white deck focused on the new Time Travel mechanic which manipulates time counters on the player's cards and time related Magic: The Gathering mechanics including suspend and vanishing. The deck highlights the earliest Doctors of the new series from 2005 to 2013 with The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler being the face Commander pair of the deck.

New Cards

Card Name	Card Colour(s)	Card Art & Function	Reference
The Ninth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor Luisa J. Preissler	Blue & Red	The Doctor in The Library pointing his sonic screwdriver in an outstretched arm. Features the ability words "Allons-y!" and "Timey-Wimey" and the keyword action "Time travel". Represents foreplanning and the manipulation of time.	Forest of the Dead, Silence in the Library
The Eleventh Doctor Justyna Dura		The Doctor at Stonehenge amidst Roman soldiers lit by the alien fleet above him.	The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang
The War Doctor Lixin Yin		The War Doctor on Gallifrey as he contemplates using The Moment in the barn in Gallifrey's drylands.	The Day of the Doctor
Rose Tyler Luisa J. Preissler	White	Rose on Earth when it was taken to the Medusa Cascade. Rose is wearing the outfit worn during The Stolen Earth. Rose gets stronger when she attacks based on other time related mechanics.	The Stolen Earth
The Face of Boe Greg Staples		The Face of Boe in his tank in Ward 26 of the hospital run by the Sisters of Plenitude on New Earth with Novice Hame attending to him. Allows you to cast a spell using its suspend cost. Loosely represents his long life span and being able to wait for events to happen.	New Earth
Ecstatic Beauty Alice Xia Zhang		Vincent van Gogh in the foreground with The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Henry Black in the background. Painted in the brushstroke style of the real-world Vincent van Gogh. Card name references Vincent's work as described by Henry Black in the Musée d'Orsay.	Vincent and the Doctor
The Eleventh Hour Matt Stewart	Blue	An Atraxi ship, Prisoner Zero, the crack in Amy's wall, older Amy holding an apple, The Eleventh Doctor brandishing his sonic screwdriver, young Amy, and the crashed TARDIS on its side with young Amy looking on. Episode saga card.	The Eleventh Hour
Four Knocks Darren Tan	White	The Tenth Doctor in the radiation booth after Wilfred Mott fulfilled Carmen's prophecy by knocking four times to be let out. This enchantment sticks around for four turns before vanishing (vanishing 4).	The End of Time
The Parting of the Ways Syd Mills	Red	Rose as the Bad Wolf, The Ninth Doctor, and Bad Wolf in letters superimposed over an exploding Dalek. Card function loosely represents the Bad Wolf episode's hanging plot moments that will be resolved later on in The Parting of the Ways, the sending of Rose backwards in time to save her where she becomes the Bad Wolf and then time travelling forwards in time, and the destruction of the Dalek fleet. Episode saga card.	The Parting of the Ways
TARDIS Chris Ostrowski	Colourless	The TARDIS in flight above a ringed planet in the foreground with other planets in the background. Vehicle that potentially grants you a free spell (cascade) and a way to travel to a new destination (planeswalk) if you control a Time Lord when it attacks.
Human	White Token	Young Amelia Pond frying some bacon and eggs. Created by The Eleventh Hour saga.	The Eleventh Hour
Food	Colourless Token	The Eleventh Doctor shortly after his regeneration in Amy's house, still dressed in The Tenth Doctor's clothes, eating fish fingers and custard out of a glass bowl. Created by The Eleventh Hour saga.	The Eleventh Hour

New Plane Cards

Card Name	Plane	Card Art & Function	Reference
Bad Wolf Bay Kamila Szutenberg	Earth	Rose Tyler standing on a rock on the beach of Dårlig Ulv Stranden. Represents Rose flickering in and out of existence before being stranded (exiled) forever on Pete's World and then travelling away (planeswalking) leaving her behind	Doomsday

Reprinted Cards

Card Name	Card Colour(s)	Card Art & Function	Reference
Farewell Alice X. Zhang	White	The Tenth Doctor regenerating with the flavour text "I don't want to go."	The End of Time

Paradox Power

Paradox Power is a green, blue, and red deck focused on the new Paradox mechanic that provides an effect whenever you cast a spell from anywhere but your hand. This is combined with the Magic: The Gathering mechanics Escape, Cascade, Flashback and Retrace which cast spells from your deck or graveyard. The deck highlights the new series' more recent Doctors from 2014 to 2023 with The Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin Khan being the face Commander pair of the deck.

New Cards

Card Name	Card Colour(s)	Cart Art & Function	Reference
The Twelfth Doctor Alexander Mokhov		The Twelfth Doctor rocking out on a tank playing an electric guitar.	The Magician's Apprentice
The Thirteenth Doctor Pauline Voss Lenka Šimečková	Blue & Green	Features the Paradox mechanic making creatures stronger and the ability word "Team TARDIS" represented by all team members (your creatures with counters on them) being able to attack and defend.
The Fugitive Doctor Greg Staples		The Fugitive Doctor at her console in her own TARDIS.	Fugitive of the Judoon
Yasmin Khan Andrey Kuzinskiy	Red	Yaz - a Detective - allows you to look for more answers in your deck.
Me, the Immortal Yuliya Litvinova		Ashildr sitting in an armchair in her home holding a chess piece that resembles a raven.	The Woman Who Lived
The Foretold Soldier Fajareka Setiawan	Green	The Foretold on the Orient Express unnoticed by the train's passengers. The Foretold Soldier kills opponent's creatures one by one and utilises the Foretell mechanic to disappear (exile) until it reappears.	Mummy on the Orient Express
Decaying Time Loop Alexander Gering		The Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, and Daniel Lewis all running from the abstract clock representation of the decaying time loop.	Eve of the Daleks
The Flux Alexander Gering	Red	The Thirteenth Doctor, Swarm, and Azure. Represents the full "series-long" story as opposed to a single episode. Episode saga card.	Flux
TARDIS Chris Ostrowski	Colourless	The TARDIS in flight above a ringed planet in the foreground with other planets in the background. Vehicle that potentially grants you a free spell (cascade) and a way to travel to a new destination (planeswalk) if you control a Time Lord when it attacks.
Clue	Colourless Token	The Thirteenth Doctor's reflection in the bell jar containing the suspended biodata module with their memories that were wiped by The Division.	The Timeless Children, Survivors of the Flux

New Plane Cards

Card Name	Plane	Card Art & Function	Reference
Fixed Point in Time Syd Mills	Phenomenon	Represents the fixed point-in-time where Clara Oswald was extracted from the timeline. Clara is positioned centrally against an EKG line "between one heartbeat and the next" with the Raven in the background.	Face the Raven, Hell Bent

Masters of Evil

Masters of Evil is a blue, black, and red deck focused on the new Villainous Choice ability word featured on modal instants and sorceries. These spells target the player's opponents who are presented with a choice of effects, all of which are detrimental. The deck has an artifact creature subtheme that includes myriad cards that duplicate attackers when attacking multiple opponents and artifact cards that have a mututally detrimental affect to all opponents or players. The deck highlights the villains of Doctor Who with Davros, Dalek Creator as the face Commander of the deck.

New Cards

Card Name	Card Colour(s)	Card Art & Function	Reference
Davros, Dalek Creator Simon Dominic	Blue, Black & Red	Davros in his Laboratory on Necros with his right arm extended "shooting" out a lightning arc. He is accompanied by two of his Imperial Daleks. Creates a Dalek token if an opponent lost life and makes them face a villainous choice.	Revelation of the Daleks
The Master, Multiplied Lie Setiawan		The Saxon Master after using the Immortality Gate to create his "Master Race" duplicates.	The End of Time
Missy Ekaterina Burmak	Blue, Black & Red	Missy in a graveyard as Cybermen rise from the graves. Resurrects any non-artifact creatures into Cybermen under your control. Makes opponents face a villainous choice at the end of your turn to either take damage from your artifact creatures (representing being attacked by the Cybermen) or allowing chaos to ensue.	Death in Heaven
Vashta Nerada Fang Xinyu		One of the archeologists casting two shadows while exploring The Library.	Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead
The Valeyard Tyukina Tatiana	Blue, Black & Red	The Valeyard in the courtroom on the Time Lord space station. Makes opponents face additional villainous choices and allows you to vote an additional time in any votes.	The Trial of a Time Lord
Weeping Angel Anato Finnstark		A Weeping Angel covering its eyes outside of Wester Drumlins.	Blink
Death in Heaven Justyna Dura	Black	Missy with multiple Cybermen being resurrected by the Cyber-pollen rain. Exiles two graveyards' worth of creatures and reanimates them into Cybermen. Episode saga card.	Death in Heaven
Exterminate! Ivan Debov	Black	A Dalek utilising their death ray on a human. The effect reveals the skeleton of the human. Destroys a creature but can be copied by using multiple Daleks. The flavour text on the card features an Imperial Dalek quote “You are the enemy of the Daleks! You will be exterminated! Exterminate!”	Remembrance of the Daleks
Dalek	Black Token	A Bronze Dalek
Cyberman	Colourless Reminder Card	A "Cyberdear" Cyberman	Dark Water, Death in Heaven

New Plane Cards

Card Name	Plane	Card Art & Function	Reference
The Doctor's Tomb Anato Finnstark	Trenzalore	The Doctor's Tomb looming overhead in the same perspective as The Name of the Doctor Loosely represents permanent erasure of characters from the timeline (exile) and rewriting history (for the negated alternate timeline) by the redistribution of life totals.	The Name of the Doctor
The Lux Foundation Library Wei Guan	The Library	The wide panned out view of The Library in the same perspective as Forest of the Dead. Loosely represents having infinite knowledge, continuous learning, and the Vashta Nerada by the use of shadow counters.	Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead

References

General References

• There is at least one dinosaur card or reference to a dinosaur within the decks.
• A reference to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors are expected to be present in one of the decks.
• Art depicting Daleks in London features in one of the Secret Lairs released in October.

Saga Episode References

Saga is a card type in Magic: The Gathering that is used to tell a story through multiple chapters that occur when you first play the card and then on each of your subsequent turns. The saga cards in this set represent an iconic episode of each of the 15 Doctor's runs (including the War Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor). In addition, four villains will also have episodes represented by associated saga cards.

The 19 episodes represented are:

• City of Death for The Fourth Doctor
• The Parting of the Ways for The Ninth Doctor
• The Eleventh Hour for The Eleventh Doctor
• Death in Heaven for The Twelfth Doctor
• The Flux for The Thirteenth Doctor

Basic Land References

Plains

• Plains 0197 showcases the TARDIS amongst the mud pools on Androzani Minor. (TV: The Caves of Androzani)
• Island 0199 showcases the TARDIS on an island beach next to the pyramid on Marinus. (TV: The Keys of Marinus)
• Swamp 0201 showcases the TARDIS in a jungle swamp on Tigella. (TV: Meglos)
• Mountain 0203 showcases the TARDIS on a mountain cliffside close to the Citadel of Peladon on Peladon. (TV: The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon)
• Forest 0205 showcases the TARDIS in a jungle on Zeta Minor. (TV: Planet of Evil)

Notes

• The cards were first shown off at the San Diego Comic-Con panel on 20 July 2023.
• Initial reactions to the set were decidedly mixed, with prominent Magic content creators being negative and Lawrence Miles criticizing the product.

External links

• Doctor Who product page at the official Magic: The Gathering website.
• Doctor Who at the Magic: The Gathering wiki.
• Commander Masters and Doctor Who Sneak Peek! | Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond MTG at Good Morning Magic on YouTube.
• The BIG Doctor Who Commander Reveal! New Cards, Art, Deck Themes, & More! | Magic: The Gathering MTG at Good Morning Magic on YouTube.
• THE NEXT YEAR OF MAGIC FROM WIZARDS PRESENTS at the official Magic: The Gathering website
• ALLONS-Y! ON OCTOBER 13, CELEBRATE 60 YEARS OF DOCTOR WHO™ THROUGH MAGIC at the official Magic: The Gathering website
• CATCH UP WITH THE Magic: The Gathering® – DOCTOR WHO™ SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON REVEALS at the official Magic: The Gathering website
• The Preview Panel at MagicCon: Barcelona at the official Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel