Live Play Data

The First Doctor

· Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor · Doctor Who (WHO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

123

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

89%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

56%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 4% (0 / 25 cast on T3)

The "good card" funnel

123 brought · 28 players

Brought to game

123

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=24) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=80).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -9.3pp to +23.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances

2.6%

Library

39.5%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Fourteenth Doctor 11 decks
2 The Fourth Doctor 10 decks
3 Sarah Jane Smith 2 decks
4 The Tenth Doctor 2 decks
5 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
6 Clara Oswald 1 decks
7 The Fifth Doctor 1 decks
8 The War Doctor 1 decks

Card text

The First Doctor

Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor

When The First Doctor enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a card named TARDIS, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature.

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Doctor Who (WHO) · Rare · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.