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Timey Wimey is one of the four pre-constructed decks created forMagic: The Gathering’sCommander format. It is a part of the Universes Beyond product line where franchises from all sorts of various media are converted into Magic cards.
Timey Wimey is aJeskai (red/white/blue) deckwith a lot of synergy relating to thesuspend mechanicto 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.
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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 creatureas it has partnerso 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 whyThe Ninth Doctoris such an important card from Timey Wimey. It does require you to untap it for the effect of an extra upkeep but sinceit has haste you can attack to get it tappedto 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 likeTARDISthat needs a creature to be crewed, you canensure The Ninth Doctor gets tapped without ever needing to attackand risk losing it.
The Face Of Boe
The Face Of Boelets 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 whenyou pay the suspend costas it takes a while to see the payoff. So The Face Of Boe can castStar 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 asThe Tenth Doctorlets you cheat out plenty of strong spells. Its effect to exile a nonland with three time counters is fantastic as ittriggers 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.
How To Play
The Time Wimey deck is all aboutsuspending 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 Songare all cards that can grant the ability in various ways.
There are also a lot of cards withvanishing, 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 Timeis 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 Knocksis 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.
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 asRose Tylerwho 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 Spaceshipcan 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 Sparrowgives all your creatures flash to let you playmultiple 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 Passageare all ways to accomplish this so your game-enders likeRose Tyler can swing for lethal damage at your opponents.
For starting hands, you generallywant 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 theTenth Doctor’s Timey-Wimey ability quickly.
Thanks to how low-costRose Tyleris, 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 aremissing 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 manaallowing you to get a little greedy with hands with low lands.
Potential Upgrades
As with all preconstructed decks, there areplenty 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.
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Ancestral Vision
Ancestral Visionis a way to easily draw three cards. It can only be cast through suspending it, and withtime traveling you can cast it much quickerinstead of having to wait four turns.
Ancestral Vision is a weaker version of the Commander-banned cardAncestral 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 may surprise an opponent with a sudden blocker sincewhen 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 Ghituis away to suspend cards without itwith 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 may start removing time counters from them right away.
Lotus Bloom
Lotus Bloomshares an effect with Black Lotus - one of the best cards ever printed. you’re able to suspend it for free, which in Timey Wimey lets you cast it very quickly to have access to three free mana.
WithFace 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.
