Knights of the Black Rose
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Conspiracy: Take the CrownCN2 · #76
- Card type
- Creature — Human Knight
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.25 € · ★ 2.48 € · 0.29 $ · ★ 1.32 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 4
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- White Black
Card text
When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever an opponent becomes the monarch, if you were the monarch as the turn began, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
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).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Mark Zug
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-08-26
Flavour text
"Hail to the true queen! Long may she reign!"
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.
The last ability of Knights of the Black Rose will trigger even if the most recent monarch was another player, as long as you were monarch as the turn began.
