Crown-Hunter Hireling
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The ListPLST · #CN2-50
- Card type
- Creature — Ogre Mercenary
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.15 € · 0.17 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 4
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Red
Card text
When this creature enters, you become the monarch. This creature can't attack unless defending player is the monarch.
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
- Izzy
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Flavour text
While most in Paliano seek fame through favor, he'll settle for infamy through blood.
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."
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.
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.
