MTG Reveals The First Cards From The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Secret Lair
Magic: The Gathering has unveiled the first three cards from its next crossover with Doctor Who, bringing the Fourteenth Doctor, one of his allies, and one of his biggest adversaries to the game for the first time.
Following on from the Doctor Who Commander decks earlier this year, the Secret Lair x Doctor Who: Regeneration Drop will focus on the 60th Anniversary specials, which hadn’t aired at the time of the original launch.
IGN revealed three of the five cards coming in the drop, which are mechanically unique and designed expand on the themes of the Commander decks.
The Fourteenth Doctor finally allows you to run every Doctor in the same deck – something that, due to the colour identity rules of Commander – wasn’t possibly before. Instead of being a straight Doctor Matters deck, though, the Fourteenth Doctor has a bit of a graveyard slant, dropping Doctors into your graveyard and letting him enter as a copy of any of them.
Like the main Doctor Who set, these cards will be legal in Commander, Vintage, Legacy, and Oathbreaker.
This is a really flavourful way of capturing the core mystery of the Fourteenth Doctor, which is why he regenerated back into the face of his tenth incarnation. Letting him revisit the abilities of long-gone incarnations is yet another reason why Doctor Who is one of the best crossover sets we’ve seen so far.
Backing him up is Rose Noble, the daughter of Donna we were introduced to in the first 60th special, The Star Beast. Hers is potentially one of the most powerful companions for a Doctor Matters deck, giving you card advantage just for playing the huge number of cards that are either a Doctor or have Doctor’s companion (this set’s version of partner).
The last card revealed is The Celestial
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