Canal Courier
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Conspiracy: Take the CrownCN2 · #28
- Card type
- Creature — Human Rogue
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.11 € · ★ 0.25 € · 0.23 $ · ★ 0.81 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 5
- Colour
- Blue
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.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Raymond Swanland
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-08-26
Flavour text
The most effective roadways in Paliano aren't roads at all.
Rulings
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
