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Entourage of Trest

Card Name

Entourage of Trest

Mana Cost

4

Type

Creature – Elf Soldier

Rarity

Common

rules Text

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.This creature can block an additional creature each combat as long as you're the monarch.

Flavor Text

« Les faibles recourent à la violence, les sages s'y préparent. » —Leovold, émissaire de Trest

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Pauper, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(8/23/2016)
Entourage of Trest checks if you're the monarch only as blockers are declared. If it blocks two attacking creatures, another player becoming the monarch won't change or undo that block.
(11/10/2020)
If a creature blocks two creatures, its combat damage is assigned to those creatures and vice versa using the same rules as if one creature were blocked by two creatures.
(11/10/2020)
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.
(11/10/2020)
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."
(11/10/2020)
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.
(11/10/2020)
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.
(11/10/2020)
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.