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User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20161223201024/@comment-1272640-20170125220132 Or not, apparently.

The novelization has shot that down. When the Doctor arrives, after explaining regeneration, it outright says "This form was his ninth." So...we'll have to treat him as a ninth incarnation.