Custodi Lich
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Conspiracy: Take the CrownCN2 · #41
- Card type
- Creature — Zombie Cleric
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.83 € · ★ 7.88 € · 2.10 $ · ★ 4.86 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 4
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Bastien L. Deharme
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-08-26
Flavour text
"Keeping order is a task too important to relinquish in death." —Abrado, Custodi priest
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.
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.
