Crown-Hunter Hireling
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Cardmarket€0.15
ManaPool$0.15
TCGplayer$0.17
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This printing
SetPLST
Collector #CN2-50
Released2019-11-07
Raritycommon
ArtistIzzy
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Crown-Hunter Hireling

CommonColour IDMV 5
Creature — Ogre Mercenary
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
This creature can't attack unless defending player is the monarch.
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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 $0.25 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
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.
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
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
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.