Custodi Lich
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ManaPool$0.51
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This printing
SetCN2
Collector #41
Released2016-08-26
Rarityrare
ArtistBastien L. Deharme
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Custodi Lich

RareColour IDMV 5
Creature — Zombie Cleric
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
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Card capabilities
Creature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2016-11-16Newest 2022-04-29Cheapest priced $0.40 in NCC
Rulings (4)
wotc23 Aug 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.
wotc23 Aug 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.
wotc23 Aug 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.”
wotc23 Aug 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.