commander · The Tenth Doctor
Timey-Wimey (WHO).
A Jeskai suspend and time travel deck led by The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, manipulate time counters on suspended cards, accelerate their arrival, and win through a cascade of spells resolving ahead of schedule.
The Commanders
Timey-Wimey is a Jeskai Commander deck themed around the Tenth Doctor era of Doctor Who. Its core mechanic is suspend: cards you exile with time counters that cast for free as the counters tick down. The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler push those counters around, speeding up your suspended threats and using "time travel" triggers to add and remove counters when it helps. It's the most complicated of the Doctor Who precons.
The Tenth Doctor is a Partner commander with Rose Tyler. He has a triggered ability: at the beginning of your end step, you may pay seven mana to time travel three times, adding or removing a time counter from any number of cards in exile with time counters and permanents with time counters. That speeds your own suspended spells way up or slows down an opponent's suspended cards. His second ability, Allons-y!, fires whenever a nonland card is exiled with time counters, and he time travels once.
Rose Tyler is the second Partner. She's a 1/1 Human that gains a +1/+1 counter whenever the Tenth Doctor time travels. As the Tenth Doctor fires his ability repeatedly, Rose grows into a substantial threat. She also has an ability that reads: if Rose Tyler would die, time travel instead. She's nearly unkillable with the Tenth Doctor active, buying time to assemble the full combo.
Key Cards
Jhoira of the Ghitu
Pay two mana and exile a nonland card with four time counters on it. You may cast it without paying its mana cost when the last counter is removed. Jhoira suspends any large spell for two mana and deploys it for free four turns later, or two turns later with proliferate. She lets the deck deploy twelve-mana spells for two mana, and the Tenth Doctor's time travel strips those counters right away. Jhoira plus time travel equals free spells every turn.
Out of Time
A three-mana enchantment that exiles all creatures when it enters the battlefield, each with a number of time counters equal to the creature's mana value. Those creatures return when their last counter is removed. This is a delayed board wipe that buys you several turns: everything is gone but comes back eventually. With the Tenth Doctor adding counters to opponents' exiled creatures, you decide when enemies return to the battlefield. Meanwhile your Companions and time-travelers dodge it selectively.
As Foretold
Gets a time counter each upkeep. Once per turn, you may cast a spell with mana value equal to or less than the number of counters on As Foretold without paying its mana cost. At five counters, cast any five-mana spell for free each turn. The Tenth Doctor can pile time counters onto As Foretold to blow past the five-counter mark early. In a deck where moving counters around is the whole game, As Foretold turns into a free spell engine.
The Eleventh Hour
A Saga from the Doctor Who set. Chapter I creates a 2/2 Human Doctor token. Chapter II time travels twice, removing or adding two time counters from permanents or exiled cards. Chapter III creates two more 2/2 Human Doctor tokens. Each chapter advances the time travel engine and builds your board. With the Tenth Doctor's Allons-y ability triggering on cards exiled with time counters, each chapter of this Saga can chain additional time travel triggers.
Rousing Refrain
A Doctor Who exclusive card with suspend. Exile it and it generates mana when the last time counter is removed. With the Tenth Doctor's time travel reducing counters immediately, Rousing Refrain can provide a massive mana burst in one turn. It's the deck's primary acceleration spell and allows casting Jhoira's suspended spells plus other high-cost cards in the same turn. The time travel engine makes it come online far faster than its base suspend cost implies.
How to Play
Deploy your Partner commanders early: Rose Tyler protects herself through time travel and the Tenth Doctor starts time traveling immediately to accelerate your suspended cards. Use Jhoira to suspend large threats for two mana and then abuse the Tenth Doctor's time travel to bring them off suspend in one or two turns instead of four.
Win by resolving a cascade of suspended spells over one or two turns: Jhoira suspends your biggest cards for free, and the Tenth Doctor strips the counters off all of them at once. Out of Time buys decisive time against aggressive decks. As Foretold casts a large spell for free each turn and grinds opponents out on card advantage. The deck rewards careful timing of your time travel triggers.
