Canal Courier

Mana Value

6

Rarity

common

Canal Courier

Creature — Human Rogue

{5}{U}
Color Identity: U

Card Text

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever this creature and another creature attack different players, this creature can't be blocked this combat.

Power/Toughness: 3/5

Set

Conspiracy: Take the Crown

(CN2)

EDHREC Rank

#22,900

Attacking a planeswalker isn’t the same thing as attacking a player. Both Canal Courier and the other creature must attack different players for the last ability to trigger.

Wotc — August 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.

Wotc — August 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.”

Wotc — August 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.

Wotc — August 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.

Wotc — August 23, 2016

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