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The Parting of the Ways

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Red. Enchantment — Saga

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0091 · WHO · R · ENWhat the codes mean

The Parting of the Ways

Doctor Who #91 · Illustrated by Syd Mills

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Non-foil · Doctor Who #91

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Surge Foil foil · Doctor Who #696

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Oracle text

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Exile the top five cards of your library. For each nonland card exiled this way, put a number of time counters on that card equal to its mana value. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend.

II — Time travel, then time travel.

III — For each opponent, destroy up to one target artifact that player controls.

All 2 printings of The Parting of the Ways

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Doctor Who #696
Doctor Who
who #696· 2023Surge Foilrare· Cardmarket €3.06 foil
rareNo non-foil printing$7.54€3.06 foil

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Card details

First printed
2023
Printings
2
Mana value
6
EDHREC rank
#9,812 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Time Travel
Artist
Syd Mills

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Doctor Who card (#91).

0091 · WHO · R · EN

  • 0091Collector number: this card's place in the set list.
  • WHOSet code for Doctor Who
  • RRare
  • ENPrinted in English

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Rulings (15)

  1. October 13, 2023

    Time counters are usually found on cards with suspend and vanishing, but may be found on other cards as well. Notably, Sagas use lore counters to track their progress, not time counters. You can't move a Saga's chapters forward and backward this way.

  2. October 13, 2023

    To time travel, look at each permanent you control with a time counter on it and each suspended card you own in exile with a time counter on it. For each of them, you choose whether you want to put a time counter on that card or permanent, remove a time counter from it, or do neither. Then those changes all happen simultaneously.

  3. February 2, 2024

    Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.

  4. February 2, 2024

    If the card has X generic mana in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  5. February 2, 2024

    If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.

  6. February 2, 2024

    Cards exiled with suspend are exiled face up.

  7. February 2, 2024

    You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.

  8. February 2, 2024

    If an effect refers to a "suspended card," that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.

  9. February 2, 2024

    If the spell requires any targets, those targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it's exiled.

  10. February 2, 2024

    Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.

  11. February 2, 2024

    If the second triggered ability is countered, the card can't be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.

  12. February 2, 2024

    When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.

  13. February 2, 2024

    If the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again at the beginning of the card's owner's next upkeep.

  14. February 2, 2024

    The mana value of a spell cast without paying its mana cost is determined by its mana cost, even though that cost wasn't paid.

  15. February 2, 2024

    Exiling a card with suspend isn't casting that card. This action doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.

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