Marchesa's Decree (Conspiracy: Take the Crown) - Gatherer

Marchesa's Decree

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Card Name:

Marchesa's Decree

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Types:

Enchantment

Card Text:

When Marchesa's Decree enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Flavor Text:

"Those who seize power must have the means to hold it."

—Queen Marchesa

Expansion:

Conspiracy: Take the Crown

Rarity:

Uncommon

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Artist:

Chris Rallis

Rulings

8/23/2016	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.
8/23/2016	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."
8/23/2016	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.
8/23/2016	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.