Magic: The Gathering – Universes Beyond: Doctor Who – Timey Wimey Deck Guide

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• Decklist

• Key Cards

• How To Play

• Potential Upgrades

Timey Wimey is one of the four pre-constructed decks created for Magic: The Gathering's Commander format. It is a part of the Universes Beyond product line where franchises from all sorts of various media are converted into Magic cards.

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Timey Wimey is a Jeskai (red/white/blue) deck with a lot of synergy relating to the suspend mechanic to play into the time travel theme that Doctor Who has and allows you to manipulate the time counters on suspend cards. Timey Wimey is a fantastic deck that is strong enough to hold its own right out of the box to start playing Commander with it.

Decklist

Commanders: The Tenth Doctor + Rose Tyler

Adipose Offspring

Amy Pond

Astrid Peth

Atraxi Warden

Dinosaurs On A Spaceship

Donna Noble

Flesh Duplicate

Idris, Soul Of The Tardis

Jenny, Generated Anomaly

Judoon Enforcers

Kate Stewart

Martha Jones

Rory Williams

Sally Sparrow

Sibylline Soothsayer

Star Whale

The Eleventh Doctor

The Face Of Boe

The Ninth Doctor

The War Doctor

Time Beetle

Wilfred Mott

All Of History, All At Once

Coward // Killer

Ecstatic Beauty

Everything Comes To Dust

Farewell

Fractured Identity

Inspiring Refrain

Nongene Conversion

The Wedding Of River Song

Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey

Clockspinning

Everybody Lives!

Gallifrey Falls // No More

Run For Your Life

Arcane Signet

Lightning Greaves

Mind Stone

Psychic Paper

RMS Titanic

Rotating Fireplace

Sol Ring

Sonic Screwdriver

TARDIS

Talisman Of Conviction

Talisman Of Creativity

The Moment

The Pandorica

Thought Vessel

Wedding Ring

As Foretold

Crack In Time

Four Knocks

Grasp Of Fate

Out Of Time

Regenerations Restored

The Day Of The Doctor

The Eleventh Hour

The Girl In The Fireplace

The Parting Of The Ways

Command Tower

Deserted Beach

Evolving Wilds

Exotic Orchard

Fiery Islet

Frostboil Snarl

Furycalm Snarl

Glacial Fortress

Irrigated Farmland

Island x3

Mountain x3

Myriad Landscape

Mystic Monastery

Ominous Cemetery

Path Of Ancestry

Plains x3

Port Town

Prairie Stream

Rogue's Passage

Skycloud Expanse

Stormcarved Coast

Sunbaked Canyon

Sundown Pass

Temple Of Enlightenment

Temple Of Epiphany

Temple Of Triumph

Temple Of The False God

Thespian's Stage

Thriving Bluff

Trenzalore Clocktower

War Room

Key Cards

Since the deck is built around suspend, most of the key cards within it interact with the mechanic. Cards with suspend get put into exile with time counters on them and at the start of your upkeep you remove a counter to cast them for free once they are all removed.

Amy Pond

Amy Pond gets a ton of time counters off of your suspended spells. Whenever it deals combat damage, that many counters get removed, so it is a fantastic way to shortcut waiting around for the time counters to get removed normally.

In addition, Amy Pond is a two-for-one creature as it has partner so when it enters the battlefield you can add Rory Williams from your library to your hand (and vice versa).

The Ninth Doctor

Since time counters on suspended cards get removed each upkeep, having multiple upkeeps gets rid of multiple counters and is why The Ninth Doctor is such an important card from Timey Wimey. It does require you to untap it for the effect of an extra upkeep but since it has haste you can attack to get it tapped to ensure the effect triggers next turn.

The Ninth Doctor has a solid toughness, making it generally safe to attack your opponents that don't have threatening creatures. When mixed with a card like TARDIS that needs a creature to be crewed, you can ensure The Ninth Doctor gets tapped without ever needing to attack and risk losing it.

The Face Of Boe

The Face Of Boe lets you get around needing to suspend cards in the first place. Instead, by tapping it you can pay the discounted suspend cost to cast it without ever having to exile the spell.

Generally, spells have a steep discount when you pay the suspend cost as it takes a while to see the payoff. So The Face Of Boe can cast Star Whale, a creature that costs eight mana normally for just two.

The Tenth Doctor

The face commander for the deck is also one of the most important as The Tenth Doctor lets you cheat out plenty of strong spells. Its effect to exile a nonland with three time counters is fantastic as it triggers off of any attack, not only when it attacks.

For seven mana, you can time travel which will add or remove a time counter three times. If you activate this after using the Allons-y! effect you can immediately cast whatever spell it exiled.

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How To Play

The Time Wimey deck is all about suspending spells and then getting those out quickly through time traveling. Even if cards do not have suspend, The Tenth Doctor, The Eleventh Doctor, and The Wedding Of River Song are all cards that can grant the ability in various ways.

There are also a lot of cards with vanishing, which stay on the field and lose a time counter each upkeep and are sacrificed when there are none left. Time traveling can add time counters onto spells and permanents so that's a way to ensure they stick around for longer - if not the entire game.

Crack In Time is a fantastic removal spell with vanishing three as it will exile any creature until it leaves the battlefield and will do that both upon entering the battlefield and at the start of your pre-combat main phase. Four Knocks is an enchantment with vanishing four that will draw you a card each pre-combat main phase to ensure you never run low on cards in your hand.

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Winning with Timey Wimey is about getting creatures down on the battlefield and overpowering your opponents with their strong effects. Generally, you are winning through combat with creatures such as Rose Tyler who gets a stat boost for each time counter on it - and it gains time counters for each suspended spell and permanent with them whenever it attacks.

Dinosaurs On A Spaceship can assist in flooding the battlefield with 2/2 tokens with flying and haste and can continuously do so since it makes one whenever a time counter is removed from it. Sally Sparrow gives all your creatures flash to let you play multiple creatures before your turn comes around, so they can attack when your turn actually starts.

Since you are primarily winning through combat damage, ways to make your creatures unblockable are vital. Sonic Screwdriver, Psychic Paper, and Rogue's Passage are all ways to accomplish this so your game-enders like Rose Tyler can swing for lethal damage at your opponents.

For starting hands, you generally want at least three lands, or two lands and a mana rock. Timey Wimey generally wants to get a lot of mana down early so you can use the Tenth Doctor's Timey-Wimey ability quickly.

Thanks to how low-cost Rose Tyler is, you can have it hit the battlefield as early as turn two. So even if your starting hand doesn't have a lot of action, you can start racking up commander damage with its attacks and get it ready to start getting a plethora of time counters.

If you are missing too many lands or cards that interact with suspend cards it is a good idea to mulligan. The mana curve in the Timey Wimey deck is rather low, with most cards between two to four mana allowing you to get a little greedy with hands with low lands.

Potential Upgrades

As with all preconstructed decks, there are plenty of cards that are on the weaker side that can be cut to make room for much stronger cards. These cards while fine, are the weakest links in the deck or don't synergize well enough that are the best choices to cut.

Cuttable Cards

Adipose Offspring

Astrid Peth

Jenny, Generated Anomaly

Fractured Identity

RMS Titanic

The Pandorica

Ancestral Vision

Ancestral Vision is a way to easily draw three cards. It can only be cast through suspending it, and with time traveling you can cast it much quicker instead of having to wait four turns.

Ancestral Vision is a weaker version of the Commander-banned card Ancestral Recall, and in Timey Wimey (especially with Face Of Boe) it becomes an exact copy of it.

Dust Of Moments

Dust Of Moments is a way to either put time counters on permanents and suspended cards or remove them. Since Timey Wimey is built around doing just that, it's an amazing include for the decklist.

Dust Of Moments is an instant as well, allowing you to cast it at any point. You can surprise an opponent with a sudden blocker since when the last time counter on a spell is removed it gets cast.

Jhoira Of The Ghitu

While Timey Wimey is built around suspending cards, there are a lot that don't have the ability. As such, Jhoira Of The Ghitu is a way to suspend cards without it with four time counters.

This effect isn't once per turn and two mana is a low investment, allowing you to suspend multiple cards at once. Notably, this can be done at instant speed before your turn starts, so you can start removing time counters from them right away.

Lotus Bloom

Lotus Bloom shares an effect with Black Lotus - one of the best cards ever printed. You can suspend it for free, which in Timey Wimey lets you cast it very quickly to have access to three free mana.

With Face Of Boe, Lotus Bloom turns into Black Lotus at the small cost of tapping Face Of Boe. While normally it would take a while to actually cast, time travel makes it much more consistently hit the battlefield quickly.

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