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| [[File:The Monarch.png|right|thumb|<c>The Monarch</c> [[marker]]]]
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| '''The Monarch''' is a [[player]]'s designation that was introduced for [[multiplayer]] games in ''[[Conspiracy: Take the Crown]]''.<ref>{{DailyRef|feature/conspiracy-take-crown-mechanics-2016-08-15|''Conspiracy: Take the Crown'' Mechanics|[[Matt Tabak]]|August 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|making-magic/its-another-conspiracy-2016-08-15|It's Another Conspiracy|[[Mark Rosewater]]|August 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|feature/heart-conspiracy-2016-08-15|The Heart of a Conspiracy|[[Shawn Main]]|August 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|card-preview/developing-conspiracy-take-crown-2016-08-16|Developing ''Conspiracy: Take the Crown''|[[Ben Hayes]]|August 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|feature/conspiracy-take-crown-release-notes-2016-08-22|''Conspiracy: Take the Crown'' Release Notes|[[Wizards of the Coast]]|August 22, 2016}}</ref>
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| ==Description==
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| Only one player at a time can be the monarch and has the following ability: "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card." Secondly, several cards in the set get better if you're the monarch.
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| A special marker may be used to indicate the Monarch on the [[battlefield]]. This is not a [[token]], because it can't be destroyed.
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| Monarch was inspired by the ''The Edge''-mechanic from ''Vampire: the Eternal Struggle'' (also published by [[Wizards of the Coast]]).<ref>{{EzTumblr|http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/149641620398/are-you-aware-that-the-monarch-mechanic-functions|title=Are you aware that the Monarch mechanic functions nearly identical from Vampire's the Masquerade mechanism called the Edge?|August 29, 2016}}</ref> A similar mechanic had also been considered for ''[[Ixalan]]''.<ref name="Just for X">{{DailyRef|making-magic/just-ixalan-part-1-2017-09-04|Just for Ix(alan), Part 1|[[Mark Rosewater]]|September 4, 2017}}</ref>
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| ==Becoming the Monarch==
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| There are various ways a player becomes the monarch:
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| # Playing a [[card]] that makes someone the monarch.
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| # [[Deal]]ing [[combat damage]] with a [[creature]] to the monarch. | |
| # Being the active player when the monarch leaves the game.
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| # Being the next player in turn order, when the monarch is the active player and leaves the game.
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| ==Rules==
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| {{CR|The Monarch}}
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| {{CR|glossary|Monarch}}
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| ==Rulings==
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| *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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| *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.
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| *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.
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| ==Monarch interaction cards==
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| *<c>Canal Courier</c>
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| *<c>Crown-Hunter Hireling</c>
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| *<c>Custodi Lich</c>
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| *<c>Entourage of Trest</c>
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| *<c>Keeper of Keys</c>
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| *<c>Knights of the Black Rose</c>
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| *<c>Palace Jailer</c>
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| *<c>Palace Sentinels</c>
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| *<c>Protector of the Crown</c>
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| *<c>Queen Marchesa</c>
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| *<c>Regal Behemoth</c>
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| *<c>Skyline Despot</c>
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| *<c>Thorn of the Black Rose</c>
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| *<c>Throne of the High City</c>
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| *<c>Throne Warden</c>
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{CR Navbox|700}}
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| [[Category:Miscellaneous mechanics]]
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