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Bill Potts

{3}{R}

Legendary Creature — Human

WHODoctor Who#681rare
Surge Foil
Border
black
Security stamp
triangle
Frame
2015
Pull rate
~1 in 346
Illustrator
Kieran Yanner
Found in
Doctor Who Collector Booster 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 LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Bill Potts or activate an ability that targets only Bill Potts, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
2/4
Doctor's companion

Plays as: Spell Copy · Spell Payoff

Market · per finishspark updated 3h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Foil+11.4%
$0.49
$0.24 low$0.14 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.26· across 4 printings

Rulings

13 · latest Oct 13, 2023 · one tap opens all
  • 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

    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 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 the spell or ability that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy will have the same value of X.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    If the spell or ability that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.

  • 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

    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.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    The copy made by Bill's triggered ability is created on the stack, so it's not "cast" or "activated."

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    The copy will have the same targets as the spell or ability it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    The first ability of Bill Potts will trigger as long as it is the only target of that spell or ability, even if that spell or ability could target multiple permanents.

  • WotCOct 13, 2023

    You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.