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Graham O'Brien

{1}{G}

Legendary Creature — Human Pilot

WHODoctor Who#396rare
Extended ArtFoil

"Now, I always come prepared."

Border
black
Security stamp
triangle
Frame
2015
Pull rate
~1 in 130–694
Illustrator
Tyukina Tatiana
Found in
Doctor Who Collector Booster Pack · Doctor Who Collector Booster Sample Pack
Printings4
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
2/2
Doctor's companion

Plays as: Lifegain Source · Food Maker

Market · per finishspark updated 2h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+7.7%
$0.42
$0.15 low-$0.05 gap
Foil+0.0%
$0.44
$0.35 low$0.19 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.26· across 4 printings

Rulings

14 · latest Nov 8, 2024 · one tap opens all
  • WotCNov 8, 2024

    Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.

  • WotCNov 8, 2024

    Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.

  • WotCNov 8, 2024

    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.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    A triggered ability that triggers when a spell is cast from anywhere other than your hand, such as that of The Thirteenth Doctor, functions only on the battlefield, so it doesn't trigger when you cast that spell from a zone other than your hand.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    Although Doctor's companion is a new variant of the partner ability, the rules for partner have not otherwise changed. Notably, Time Lord Doctors and cards with Doctor's companion do not interact with cards which have another partner ability.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    An instant or sorcery that counts how many spells you've cast from anywhere other than your hand, such as Surge of Brilliance, counts itself if it was cast from a zone other than your hand.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    If a spell or ability allows you to copy a spell on the stack but doesn't specify that the spell is cast, that spell wasn't cast and won't be counted by paradox abilities. However, if a spell or ability allows you to cast a copy of a spell, that spell will be counted for paradox abilities.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    Paradox abilities count any spells cast from zones other than your hand. These are usually spells cast from exile, the graveyard, or the command zone. They also count spells cast from outside the game, such as spells cast with Wish or Garth One-Eye's ability.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    The Doctor's companion ability allows you to have two commanders if one has the ability and the other is a legendary creature that is a Time Lord Doctor and has no other creature types. Creatures with the changeling ability, for example, can't be a second commander this way.