Marchesa's Decree

The List (PLST) #CN2-44 · Uncommon · Enchantment

Mana cost: {3}{B}

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

"Those who seize power must have the means to hold it."
—Queen Marchesa

Illustrated by Chris Rallis · Released August 2, 2024

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 25, 2026: up $0.14 USD (19.4%) to $0.86 USD; low $0.72 USD, high $0.86 USD.

Printings

  1. Foundations Commander #113 (FDC) · Uncommon · 2026 · $0.26 USD
  2. The List #CN2-44 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.86 USD
  3. Treasure Chest #20 (PZ2) · Uncommon · 2016
  4. Conspiracy: Take the Crown #44 (CN2) · Uncommon · 2016 · $2.76 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2016-08-23 · wotc — 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.
  2. 2016-08-23 · wotc — 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."
  3. 2016-08-23 · wotc — 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.
  4. 2016-08-23 · wotc — 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.

Played in these commander decks

  1. Queen Marchesa · in 34% of 50 decks
  2. Isshin, Two Heavens as One · in 8% of 49 decks

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