Monarch Payoff
Cards whose abilities pay off specifically while you hold the monarchy, gating an upkeep or end-step bonus behind an 'if you're the monarch' clause. The five Courts each give an escalating reward while you stay crowned: Court of Grace makes tokens, Court of Cunning mills, and Court of Ire deals damage, while creatures like Keeper of Keys and Throne Warden trigger bonuses tied to holding the crown. These cards want you to win and keep the monarchy, not merely claim it once. This grouping is about the payoff side of the monarch archetype; cards that simply make you the monarch with no crown-conditional reward, or that trigger when an opponent is the monarch instead, fall outside this scope.
Also known as
- monarch matters
- being the monarch
- crown payoff
- monarch synergy
- the monarchy
- monarch reward
- if youre the monarch