First printed in Tales of Middle-earth Commander (2023)
Sorcery
Create X 2/2 red Human Knight creature tokens with trample and haste.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to one or more players this turn, you become the monarch.
"A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!"
- Illustrated by
- Filipe Pagliuso
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker
- Banned in
- Tiny Leaders
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (5)
- If the monarch leaves the game during another player's turn, that player becomes the monarch. If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch.
- If combat damage dealt to the monarch causes that player to lose the game, the triggered ability that causes the controller of the attacking creature to become the monarch doesn't resolve. In most cases, the controller of the attacking creature will still become the monarch as it is likely their turn.
- 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. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch (if any) ceases being the monarch.
- There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. The full texts of these abilities are "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."
Prices
Paper price: €4.93 / $3.70 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket and TCGplayer through MTGJSON, 2 Nov 2026).
MTGO price: 13.33 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 2 Nov 2026).
