The Face of Boe
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Creature — Alien Advisor
Oracle Text:
{T}: You may cast a spell with suspend from your hand. If you do, pay its suspend cost rather than its mana cost. Activate only as a sorcery.
Power/Toughness: 0/4
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
Price ( USD): $0.30
USD: $0.30 · EUR: €0.35
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Character Background
The Face of Boe feels like an ancient, patient advisor: a defensive 0/4 that trades immediate aggression for long-term inevitability by tapping to put suspend spells from your hand into exile, paying their suspend cost instead of their mana cost. In play it best supports a value/control or combo game plan—you’re banking future turn advantage rather than racing now—so prioritize high-impact suspend targets like Ancestral Vision or Lotus Bloom and use Boe as an inevitability engine. Deckbuilding tip: include tutors and card draw (Mystical Tutor, Preordain-style filtering) to reliably find suspend cards, and pack countermagic or spot protection to keep Boe online while you stall. Because the ability is a sorcery and requires tapping, build a low curve, supportive mana base and consider cards that manipulate or remove time counters to accelerate payoffs; treat Boe as the backbone of a patient shell that turns small investments into game-winning delayed value.
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