Canal Courier
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This printing
SetPLST
Collector #CN2-28
Released2026-11-09
Raritycommon
ArtistRaymond Swanland
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Canal Courier

CommonColour IDMV 6
Creature — Human Rogue
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever this creature and another creature attack different players, this creature can't be blocked this combat.
3 / 5
Card capabilities
Creature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2016-08-26Newest 2016-08-26Cheapest priced $0.21 in CN2
Rulings (5)
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.
wotc23 Aug 2016
Attacking a planeswalker isn’t the same thing as attacking a player. Both Canal Courier and the other creature must attack different players for the last ability to trigger.