Marchesa's Decree
Conspiracy: Take the Crown · #44 · Uncommon
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Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.
"Those who seize power must have the means to hold it."
—Queen Marchesa
Card details
- Shown printing
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2)
- Artist
- Chris Rallis
- Color identity
- Black
- Colors
- Black
- Mana value
- 4
- First released
- August 26, 2016
- Printings
- 3
- EDHREC rank
- #6971 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.21 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
- Related cards
- The Monarch (Related)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (4)
Abilities that trigger whenever you "become the monarch" trigger only if you aren't already the monarch. For example, if you are already the monarch as Custodi Lich enters the battlefield, its last ability won't trigger.
Being the monarch carries two inherent triggered abilities. "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch."
If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack, and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card.
The game starts with no monarch. Once an effect makes one player the monarch, the game will have exactly one monarch from that point forward.
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