Blast From The Past - WHO Precon

Commander / EDH GWU (Bant) Investigate Partner Tokens

PreconBreakdown

Land - Mana (34)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 2x Island
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Thriving Grove
• 1x Thriving Heath
• 1x Thriving Isle
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Waterlogged Grove

Synergies - Historic (9)

• 1x Barbara Wright
• 1x Ian Chesterton
• 1x The First Doctor
• 1x Alistair, the Brigadier
• 1x Romana II
• 1x The Fifth Doctor
• 1x The Third Doctor
• 1x The Sixth Doctor
• 1x Displaced Dinosaurs

Ramp (13)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Explore
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Susan Foreman
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Talisman of Unity
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x City of Death
• 1x Sonic Screwdriver
• 1x Five Hundred Year Diary
• 1x Peri Brown

Card Draw (11)

• 1x TARDIS
• 1x An Unearthly Child
• 1x Jo Grant
• 1x Sergeant John Benton
• 1x Duggan, Private Detective
• 1x The Second Doctor
• 1x Traverse Eternity
• 1x Heroes' Podium
• 1x The Seventh Doctor
• 1x The Five Doctors
• 1x Twice Upon a Time

Removal (10)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Adric, Mathematical Genius
• 1x Reverse the Polarity
• 1x The Caves of Androzani
• 1x The Sea Devils
• 1x Trial of a Time Lord
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x The Curse of Fenric
• 1x Banish to Another Universe

Protection / Recursion (4)

• 1x Time Lord Regeneration
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Gallifrey Stands
• 1x The Eighth Doctor

Commanders (2)

Historic - Evasion (11)

• 1x K-9, Mark I
• 1x Ace's Baseball Bat
• 1x Bessie, the Doctor's Roadster
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Jamie McCrimmon
• 1x Tegan Jovanka
• 1x Vrestin, Menoptra Leader
• 1x Ace, Fearless Rebel
• 1x Day of Destiny
• 1x Leela, Sevateem Warrior
• 1x Nyssa of Traken

Boardwipe (4)

• 1x The War Games
• 1x Time Wipe
• 1x Crisis of Conscience
• 1x The Night of the Doctor

Land - Utility (2)

• 1x Gallifrey Council Chamber
• 1x Trenzalore Clocktower

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A "Doctor Who" Universe Beyond Precon, this {W}{U}{G} deck is all about getting massive value from casting Historic spells and creating a mass of artifact tokens.

This deck also brings out the full diversity of the new "Doctor's Companion" mechanic. A "Partner" variant, this keyword allows a creature to act as a second commander if the other commander has the type line "Legendary Creature - Time Lord Doctor". Due to the possible combinations of Doctors and Doctor's Companions in this deck, this breakdown will only discuss the most likely played commanders.

Face Commander: The Fourth Doctor & Sarah Jane Smith

The deck's face commanders, The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, care about the casting of Historic spells, which fill this deck. With the Fourth Doctor allowing you to cast a historic spell from the top of your library once each turn and Sarah Jane Smith rewarding you with a Clue when you do so, you'll have your pick of historic spells to play no matter the situation.

By casting these historic spells and creating these tokens, you can enhance some of the Doctor's other companions, like Jamie McCrimmon who loves combat or Ace, Fearless Rebel who loves a good fight or even Nyssa of Traken who loves attacking...

Maybe the Council of Gallifrey was right to be wary of the Doctor...

Back-Up Commander: The First Doctor & Susan Foreman

The first back-up commanders are The First Doctor and Susan Foreman. For those players who love Planeschase, this pairing will allow you to dictate the planes you visit. When you planeswalk, Sarah will allow you the choice of which of two planes you wish to walk to thus ensuring you can always utilise the plane to your own ends.

The First Doctor is a little bit more lowkey. Although he wants you to cascade, he always get the TARDIS to your hand then the field. When this "not-secret" secret commander attacks whilst you control a Time Lord, it grants your next spell cascade, thus empowering our actual commander, and allows us to planeswalk if we choose. This is hugely beneficial, as it allows you to escape unhelpful planes that are helping your opponents. Provided, of course, it doesn't break.

Back-Up Commander: Alistair, the Brigadier

The next back-up commander for the deck is Alistair, the Brigadier. The only non-Doctor/Companion commander for this deck, Alistair creates loyal 1/1 Solider tokens whenever you cast a historic spell. Then, when Alistair decides to attack himself, you can pay {8} to give all your creatures +X/+X, where X equals the number of historic permeants you have. Considering almost every nonland permanent is your deck is historic, this should be HUGE!!

You'll need to both protect you board, with cards like Heroic Intervention and Adric, Mathematical Genius, and ensure you can attack safely, with cards like Tegan Jovanka or Sonic Screwdriver, to ensure Alistair gets you the win.

Of course, the bestest boy does both.

New Cards

As a fresh universe for Universe Beyond, it shouldn't surprise anyone that there a lot of the new cards, all of which designed to fit the Doctor Who universe. Although it's already been mentioned, the sheer number of potential combinations of Doctor/Companions in this deck make my head spin and I'm sure the Doctor Who fans will love mixing and matching their favourites. That said, neither Mel Bush nor Grace Holloway appear in card form, so apologies if they were your favourite companion.

But the upside of all the new Doctors is the creation of a new alternative win-con card: Gallifrey Stands. By controlling thirteen Doctors during your upkeep, you win the game. Unfortunately, this precon only contains eight, with the others being spread out amongst the other two Doctor decks; Timey-Wimey and Paradox Power. A small flavour fail but not really unexpected, considering it is a precon.

There is a lot of other new hotness through. For example, Reverse the Polarity is an incredibly flexible card for blue players. When your choices are between an anti-storm counterspell, a power/toughness swapper and ensuring ALL your creatures are unblockable, you'll never feel bad holding mana for this spell.

But perhaps you're more of a Timmy/Tammy and just want to watch the world burn? If that's more your speed, then forcing your opponents to play The War Games is more your speed. The first mono-white goad outside of the Impetus cycle, this creates goaded Warrior tokens for each player, before pumping them up over the next two turns. Assuming any of them are still alive by the time this Saga hits its final chapter, you may sacrifice a nontoken creature to remove all Warriors from the board, not just the tokens you made (that's a warning to you, Hazezon Tamar).

Finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the elephant in the room, or rather the dinosaur. Displaced Dinosaurs turns all of your historic permanents into 7/7 Dinosaur creatures. As previously mentioned, almost all of your permanents are historic, so that's a lot of dinosaurs. However, I think this was really made for the Johnny/Jennie who want to the taste of being a Timmy/Tammy. Depending on how fast you can generate historic tokens, you might be able to create a Dinosaur army out of nowhere. Unfortunately, not only do the Dinosaurs not get trample or haste, Displaced Dinosaurs also cost {5}{G}{G} to cast! I hope your token machine is mana efficient.

Reprints

This precon has few cards that rate as worthy reprints, but most of those are the lands. Between the slow lands combination of Deserted Beach and Dreamroot Cascade, plus the Horizon Canopy, they are some of the best dual lands available outside of the OG duals and the Shocks.

Another quality reprint is Heroic Intervention which remains at a high price, despite only just being reprint in both Commander Masters and the "Food and Fellowship" Precon only a few months ago. Not really a surprise as it remains one of, if not the, best protection spells around.

Overall, this deck is aimed at players who want flexibility with their playstyle, as this deck can lean in several different directions depending on which combination of Doctors and Companions you decide you want headlining your deck.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 68 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.38
Tokens	Alien Insect 1/1 GW, Alien Salamander 2/2 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Food, Mutant 3/3 G, On an Adventure, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 W
Folders	Doctor Who Commander (WHO) Precons