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The Fugitive Doctor

{3}{R}{G}

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor

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Frame
2015
Pull rate
~1 in 31–694
Illustrator
Steve Morris
Found in
Doctor Who Collector Booster Pack · Doctor Who Collector Booster Sample Pack
Printings6
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 LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
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.)
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Plays as: Attack Trigger · Graveyard Recast · Clue Maker

Market · per finishspark updated 8h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+2.4%
$0.42
$0.15 low-$0.05 gap
Foil-7.1%
$0.52
$0.01 low-$0.07 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.19· across 6 printings

Rulings

11 · latest Oct 13, 2023 · one tap opens all
  • WotCOct 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."

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

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

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

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

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

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

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

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

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

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

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    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}.)

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    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.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    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.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    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.

  • WotCOct 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.