Crown-Hunter Hireling {4}{R}

Name: Crown-Hunter Hireling (The List)
Brand: Magic: The Gathering
SKU: 7f94fdfe-6a64-4afa-a610-bfc61d4530d1

Creature — Ogre Mercenary

When Crown-Hunter Hireling enters, you become the monarch.

Crown-Hunter Hireling can’t attack unless defending player is the monarch.

While most in Paliano seek fame through favor, he’ll settle for infamy through blood.

4/4

Illustrated by Izzy

Faces, Tokens, & Other Parts
The Monarch Card #TCMR-14
Crown-Hunter Hireling #CN2-50

Prints	USD	EUR	TIX
The List	$0.12	€0.10
Conspiracy: Take the Crown	$0.05	€0.12	0.42
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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. (2016-08-23)
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. (2016-08-23)
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." (2016-08-23)

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. (2016-08-23)
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. (2016-08-23)