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Palace Jailer
UncommonColour IDMV 4
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.
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Card capabilities
CreatureCreature removal
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
Digital formats
Other printings
7 other English printingsEarliest 2016-08-26Newest 2026-06-26Cheapest priced $0.23 in CMM
Rulings (8)
wotc19 Mar 2021
Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.
wotc19 Mar 2021
Palace Jailer leaving the battlefield won't cause the exiled creature to return. The game will continue to watch for the next time an opponent becomes the monarch.
wotc19 Mar 2021
In a multiplayer game, if the monarch leaves the game, the player whose turn it is immediately becomes the monarch. If the player whose turn it is has left the game, instead the next player in turn order becomes the monarch.
wotc19 Mar 2021
The opponent that controlled the exiled card doesn't have to be the same opponent that becomes the monarch in order to cause that card to return to the battlefield. Any opponent becoming the monarch will cause the card to return.
wotc19 Mar 2021
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."
wotc19 Mar 2021
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.
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