The Rani
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Creature — Time Lord Scientist
Oracle Text:
Whenever The Rani enters or attacks, create a red Aura enchantment token named Mark of the Rani attached to another target creature. That token has enchant creature and "Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded."
Whenever a goaded creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, investigate.
Power/Toughness: 3/4
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
Price ( USD): $0.35
USD: $0.35 · EUR: €0.45
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Character Background
The Rani fits thematically as a manipulative Time Lord scientist who "marks" creatures to bend combat to her advantage, and in play she best supports a value/political midrange strategy with tempo upside in multiplayer formats: every enter and attack creates a +2/+2, goading Aura that both buffs and forces creatures into combat, and each time a goaded creature deals damage you get Investigate—steady incremental card advantage. Build around repeatable triggers and artifact-synergy outlets: Panharmonicon doubles the enter trigger, and Krark-Clan Ironworks or other artifact-sac outlets turn the Clue tokens into mana or combo resources. Include cheap evasive attackers or ways to give your own creatures pseudo-evasion so your Marks reliably convert into Clues, and lean into multiplayer/goad synergies that make opponents attack each other while you reap the Investigate value. In short, treat The Rani as a political-value engine—slot in token doublers, artifact sac pieces, and interactive removal to amplify both tempo and long-term card advantage.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-16 16:20:46 UTC
