The Wedding of River Song
Mana Cost:
Type: Sorcery
Oracle Text:
Draw two cards, then you may exile a nonland card from your hand with a number of time counters on it equal to its mana value. Then target opponent does the same. Cards exiled this way that don't have suspend gain suspend.
Time travel. (For each suspended card you own and each permanent you control with a time counter on it, you may add or remove a time counter.)
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
Price ( USD): $0.22
USD: $0.22 · EUR: €0.23
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Character Background
The Wedding of River Song reads like a narrative knot—two-card draw up front for immediate value, then a mutual suspension ritual that embodies River’s penchant for rearranging timelines—perfect for a control/value shell that wants to set up future turns or a combo deck that banks big spells in exile. Exiling a nonland from your hand with time counters equal to its mana value lets you safely stash high-impact finishers or expensive answers, while forcing an opponent into the same decision can slow their tempo or bait them into burying a key piece. It pairs especially well with existing suspend cards (think Ancestral Vision-style payoffs) and with cards or builds that manipulate time counters—anything that can add/remove counters to accelerate your bombs or stall theirs. Deckbuilding tip: include a few low-cost, high-utility spells to suspend as threats, plus dedicated ways to interact with time counters and reliable cheap answers to capitalize on the window this card creates.
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