Throne Warden
Conspiracy: Take the Crown · #25 · Common

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Creature — Human Soldier
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
"Rulers come and go, but my allegiance belongs to the throne."
2/2
Card details
- Shown printing
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2)
- Artist
- Chris Rallis
- Color identity
- White
- Colors
- White
- Mana value
- 2
- First released
- August 26, 2016
- Printings
- 1
- EDHREC rank
- #17850 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.33 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
- Related cards
- The Monarch (Related)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderLegal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (5)
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.
The last ability of Throne Warden checks to see if you're the monarch as your end step begins. If you're not, the ability won't trigger at all. You won't be able to do anything that would make you the monarch during your end step in time to have that ability trigger. The ability will also check to see if you're the monarch as it tries to resolve. If you're not the monarch at that time, the ability will have no effect.
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