Court of Cunning
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{U}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Commander Legends #633 (rare)
- Price
- $9.25 USD
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Court of Cunning has 3 printings, first in Commander Legends (2020). EDHREC ranks it #2,791 among Commander cards. It appears most in Captain N'ghathrod decks (9,007 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Court of Cunning most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Captain N'ghathrod: 9,007 decks
- Obeka, Splitter of Seconds: 8,222 decks
- Bruvac the Grandiloquent: 3,302 decks
- The Wise Mothman: 2,617 decks
- Hope Estheim: 1,645 decks
- Grolnok, the Omnivore: 1,499 decks
- Umbris, Fear Manifest: 1,451 decks
- Tasha, the Witch Queen: 932 decks
Often played with Court of Cunning
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If combat damage dealt to the monarch causes that player to lose the game, the triggered ability that causes the controller of the attacking creature to become the monarch doesn't resolve. In most cases, the controller of the attacking creature will still become the monarch as it is likely their turn.
- : There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. The full texts of these abilities are "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."
- : 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.
- : 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. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch (if any) ceases being the monarch.
- : If the monarch leaves the game during another player's turn, that player becomes the monarch. If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch.