Confession Dial
~$0.24 low · ~$1.10 high
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Colorless. Artifact

Doctor Who #173 · Illustrated by Narendra Bintara Adi
What is Confession Dial worth?
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TCGplayer market prices in USD, updated October 14, 2026. Each price is for one printing and one finish.
Oracle text
When this artifact enters, surveil 3.
: Target legendary creature card in your graveyard gains escape until end of turn. The escape cost is equal to its mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast it from your graveyard for its escape cost this turn.)
Format legality
All 4 printings of Confession Dial
| Printing | Rarity | Non-foil | Foil | Cardmarket (EUR) | My collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Doctor Who who #173· 2023rare· Cardmarket €0.19 · €0.30 foil | rare | $0.24 | $1.10 | €0.19€0.30 foil | |
Doctor Who who #456· 2023Extended Artrare· Cardmarket €0.18 · €0.47 foil | rare | $0.48 | $0.34 | €0.18€0.47 foil | |
Doctor Who who #778· 2023Surge Foilrare· Cardmarket €1.07 foil | rare | No non-foil printing | $0.70 | €1.07 foil | |
Doctor Who who #1047· 2023Extended ArtSurge Foilrare· Cardmarket €0.56 foil | rare | No non-foil printing | $1.10 | €0.56 foil |
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Card details
- First printed
- 2023
- Printings
- 4
- Mana value
- 3
- EDHREC rank
- #14,180 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
- Keywords
- Surveil
- Artist
- Narendra Bintara Adi
What the codes mean
The small print at the bottom of the Doctor Who card (#173).
0173 · WHO · R · EN
- 0173Collector number: this card's place in the set list.
- WHOSet code for Doctor Who
- RRare
- ENPrinted in English
How to read a Magic card: every part and code, on real cards.
Rulings (8)
October 13, 2023
If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.
October 13, 2023
Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.
October 13, 2023
If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. You may pay any optional additional costs the spell has, such as kicker costs. If it has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
October 13, 2023
If a spell you're casting with escape has an additional cost of discarding cards or sacrificing permanents, you may exile cards discarded or sacrificed this way to pay that part of its escape cost.
October 13, 2023
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.
October 13, 2023
Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.
October 13, 2023
After an escaped permanent spell resolves, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later.
January 12, 2024
When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
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