Canal Courier

• WotCAug 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.

• WotCAug 23, 2016

  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.

• WotCAug 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.”

• WotCAug 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.

• WotCAug 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.

This is the only printing — Conspiracy: Take the Crown #28.