Star Whale
Doctor Who 55 • uncommon
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Collector number
- 55
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 6 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Simon Dominic
- Market price
- $2.07
What it does
Flying, vigilance
Other creatures you control have ward 2 generic mana.
Suspend 6—1 generic mana blue mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 1 generic mana blue mana and exile it with six time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Star Whale card, numbered 55 in the Doctor Who trading card series, represents the creature featured in the 2010 episode 'The Beast Below'. This episode, written by Steven Moffat, centers on a giant, sentient space-faring creature enslaved by the United Kingdom of the far future to carry their starship through space. The design of the creature draws on the mythic imagery of space-dwelling leviathans, contrasting its immense, majestic scale with the themes of empathy and exploitation central to the episode's narrative.
The illustration featured on the card is part of the broader collector card sets produced to accompany the Eleventh Doctor's tenure. It utilizes stills from the production to ground the item in the show's visual aesthetic. These sets were intended for fans looking to document the creatures and aliens encountered during the series revival. Like many cards in this run, it serves as a snapshot of the imaginative character design that defined the show's creature effects during that era, prioritizing the emotional resonance of the Star Whale’s plight alongside its unique silhouette.
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