Clockspinning
Mana Cost:
Type: Instant
Oracle Text:
Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: common
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
Public Decks Using This Card
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Character Background
Clockspinning is a tiny blue trick with a surprisingly broad reach, fitting the Doctor Who set’s love of time as a resource to be manipulated rather than simply spent. In play, it shines most in control and value shells, where a single mana can buy tempo by stripping a loyalty counter from a planeswalker, shrinking a charge-based threat, or removing a time counter from a suspended spell to accelerate or disrupt the clock. The buyback cost turns it into a repeatable engine in grindy games, letting you keep rebuying the same answer while always holding up interaction. It also has combo applications: if your deck cares about counters, Clockspinning can repeatedly grow a key permanent or repeatedly reset a suspend line to your advantage. It pairs especially well with charge-counter artifacts, planeswalkers, and suspend cards, and it rewards decks that can stretch games long enough for its flexibility to matter.
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