Start the TARDIS

Format legality

Where you can play Start the TARDIS in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings (2)

Prices range from $0.33 to $4.16 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Doctor Who at $0.33.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (7).

• 2024-01-12You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.
• 2024-01-12When 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.
• 2023-10-13If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
• 2023-10-13When casting a spell with jump-start, you must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
• 2023-10-13You may planeswalk only in games using the Planechase variant. If you are instructed to planeswalk in any other game, nothing happens.
• 2023-10-13If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
• 2023-10-13A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.

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