Crown-Hunter Hireling
Creature — Ogre Mercenary
While most in Paliano seek fame through favor, he'll settle for infamy through blood.
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- ~1 in 121
- Illustrator
- Izzy
- Found in
- Mystery Booster Booster Pack (Convention Edition) · Mystery Booster Booster Pack (Retail Edition) · Mystery Booster Booster Pack (Convention Edition - 2021)
Plays as: Becomes Monarch
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Rulings
5 · latest Aug 23, 2016 · one tap opens all
- 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
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
Crown-Hunter Hireling can attack only the monarch or a planeswalker controlled by the monarch. This check is done only as attackers are declared. After that point, Crown-Hunter Hireling won't be removed from combat if that player ceases to be 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.