Archivist of Gondor
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Advisor
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 3
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander #420 (rare)
- Price
- $0.49 USD
When your commander deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card.
Archivist of Gondor has 3 printings, first in Tales of Middle-earth Commander (2023). EDHREC ranks it #10,142 among Commander cards. It appears most in Éowyn, Shieldmaiden decks (3,401 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. 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
Public decks that run Archivist of Gondor
- Riders of Rohan - Tales of Middle-earth Commander, led by Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Commanders that run Archivist of Gondor most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Éowyn, Shieldmaiden: 3,401 decks
- Aragorn, King of Gondor: 2,973 decks
- Faramir, Steward of Gondor: 434 decks
- Y'shtola Rhul: 297 decks
- Lo and Li, Royal Advisors: 201 decks
- Garland, Royal Kidnapper: 156 decks
- Gríma, Saruman's Footman: 142 decks
- Boromir, Gondor's Hope: 52 decks
Often played with Archivist of Gondor
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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."
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.