Universes Beyond: Doctor Who

Universes Beyond: Doctor Who were Doctor Who themed Magic: The Gathering trading game cards released by Wizards of the Coast on 13 October 2023. The set was announced August 18th, 2022

The Doctor Who set was part of Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond series that utilises the worlds, characters, and stories of other intellectual properties while featuring the same gameplay of Magic: the Gathering. The Doctor Who set was the third major Universes Beyond release (not including 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. All the new Doctor Who themed cards in this set (including planar cards) are considered non-canon to the main Magic: the Gathering story and multiverse.

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: 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.
 * 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

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

 * The First Doctor - Blue & White. The card art places The Doctor in his TARDIS at his console with smoke emmanating from it.
 * The Second Doctor
 * The Third Doctor
 * The Fourth Doctor - Blue & Green. In the card art, The Doctor, smiling, presents 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.
 * The Fifth Doctor
 * The Sixth Doctor
 * The Seventh Doctor
 * The Eighth Doctor - Not represented from Doctor Who but instead represented from The Night of the Doctor.
 * Susan Foreman - Green
 * Sarah Jane Smith - White. In the card art, Sarah manouvers around some barbed wire and rocks on Exxilon (TV: Death to the Daleks) wearing her first outfit (TV: The Time Warrior).
 * Adric, Mathematical Genius - In the cart art, Adric is looking at the console of Briggs's freighter after it was damaged by a Cyberman (TV: Earthshock). Prehistoric Earth can be seen on the monitor in the background.
 * K-9, Mark 1 - In the cart art, K-9 is levitating in a generic spaceship corridor.
 * City of Death - Episode saga card. The cart art features 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.
 * Reverse the Polarity - The card art features The Third Doctor brandishing his sonic screwdriver with a circular "wave" effect emmanating from it.
 * Time Lord Regeneration - The card art features a 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. (TV: The Caves of Androzani).
 * TARDIS - 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.

New Planar Cards

 * TARDIS Bay on the plane of Gallifrey - Grants you a free spell (just like the TARDIS's cascade), then you steal a TARDIS and run away (planeswalk)

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

 * The Ninth Doctor
 * The Tenth Doctor - Blue & Red. Features the ability words "Allons-y!" and "Timey-Wimey" and the keyword action "Time travel". Represents foreplanning and the manipulation of time. The card art places The Doctor in The Library (TV: Forest of the Dead, Silence in the Library).
 * The Eleventh Doctor - The card art places The Doctor at Stonehenge amidst Roman soldiers lit by the alien fleet above him (TV: The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang).
 * The War Doctor - The cart art places The War Doctor on Gallifrey as he comtemplates using The Moment (TV: The Day of the Doctor).
 * Rose Tyler - White. The card art places Rose on Earth when it was taken to the Medusa Cascade. Rose is wearing the outfit worn during The Stolen Earth.
 * The Face of Boe - The cart art shows 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 (TV: New Earth).
 * Ecstatic Beauty - References Vincent van Gogh's work as described by Henry Black. The card art is painted in the brushstroke style of the real-world Vincent van Gogh and features Vincent in the foreground with The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Henry Black in the background (TV: Vincent and the Doctor).
 * The Eleventh Hour - The card art shows 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 (TV: The Eleventh Hour).
 * Four Knocks - References Carmen's prophecy "... He will knock four times." (TV: Planet of the Dead). The card art shows The Tenth Doctor in the radiation booth after Wilfred Mott fulfilled the prophecy by knocking four times to be let out (TV: The End of Time).
 * The Parting of the Ways - Saga whose chapters loosely represent the Bad Wolf episode's hanging plot moments that will be resolved later on in this episode, 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.
 * TARDIS - Vehicle that potentially grants you a free spell and a way to travel to a new destination (planeswalk) if you control a Time Lord when it attacks.

New Planar Cards

 * Bad Wolf Bay on the plane of Earth - Loosely represents Rose Tyler flickering in and out of existence before being stranded (exile) forever on Pete's World and then travelling away (planeswalk) leaving her behind (TV: Doomsday).

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

 * The Twelfth Doctor - The card art places The Twelfth Doctor rocking out on a tank playing an electric guitar (TV: The Magician's Apprentice).
 * The Thirteenth Doctor - Blue & Green.
 * The Fugitive Doctor - The card art places The Fugitive Doctor at her console in her own TARDIS.
 * Yasmin Khan - Red.
 * Me, the Immortal - The cart art depicts Ashildr sitting in an arm chair in her home holding a chess piece that resembles a raven (TV: The Woman Who Lived).
 * The Foretold Soldier - The card art showcases the Foretold unnoticed by the train's passengers (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express).
 * Decaying Time Loop - The card art showcases The Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, and Daniel Lewis all running from the abstract clock representation of the decaying time loop (TV: Eve of the Daleks).
 * The Flux - Episode saga card. The card art depicts The Thirteenth Doctor, Swarm, and Azure. This card represents the full "series-long" story as opposed to a single episode (The Flux).
 * TARDIS - Vehicle that potentially grants you a free spell and a way to travel to a new destination (planeswalk) if you control a Time Lord when it attacks.

New Planar Cards

 * Fixed Point in Time a phenomenon - Represents the fixed point-in-time where Clara Oswald was extracted from the timeline (TV: Face the Raven, Hell Bent). Clara is positioned centrally "between one heartbeat and the next" with The Raven in the background.

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

 * Davros, Dalek Creator - Blue, Black & Red. This card creates Dalek tokens. The card art places 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 (TV: Revelation of the Daleks).
 * The Master, Multiplied - This card features the Saxon Master after using the Immortality Gate to create his "Master Race" duplicates (TV: The End of Time).
 * Missy - Blue, Black & Red. The card art places Missy in a graveyard as Cybermen rise from the graves (TV: Death in Heaven).
 * Vashta Nerada - The card art depicts one of the archeologists casting two shadows while exploring The Library (TV: Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead).
 * The Valeyard - This card features The Valeyard in the courtroom on the Time Lord space station as seen during The Trial of a Time Lord.
 * Weeping Angel - This card art features a Weeping Angel covering its eyes outside of Wester Drumlins (TV: Blink).
 * Death in Heaven - Episode saga card. This card depicts Missy along with many Cybermen resurrected by the Cyber-pollen rain (TV: Death in Heaven).
 * Exterminate! - 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!” (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks).

New Planar Cards

 * The Doctor's Tomb on the plane of Trenzalore - Loosely represents permanent erasure of characters from the timeline (exile) and rewriting history (for the negated alternate timeline) by the redistribution of life totals (TV: The Name of the Doctor).
 * The Lux Foundation Library on the plane of The Library - Loosely represents having infinite knowledge, continuous learning, and the Vashta Nerada by the use of shadow counters (TV: Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead).

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 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).

Token References

 * The Dalek token art of Token 0012 showcases a generic Imperial Dalek. Featured in the Masters of Evil deck.
 * The Alien Insect token art of Token 0019 showcases a Menoptera in flight (TV: The Web Planet). Featured in the Blast from the Past deck.
 * The Clue token art of Token 0023 showcases The Thirteenth Doctor's reflection in the bell jar containing the suspended biodata module with their memories that were wiped by The Division (TV: The Timeless Children, Survivors of the Flux). Featured in the Paradox Power deck.
 * The Food token art of Token 0026 showcases 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 (TV: The Eleventh Hour).