Champions of Minas Tirith
- Mana cost
- {5}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Human Soldier
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 6
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander #94 (rare)
- Price
- $1.66 USD
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, if you're the monarch, that opponent may pay {X}, where X is the number of cards in their hand. If they don't, they can't attack you this combat.
Champions of Minas Tirith has 3 printings, first in Tales of Middle-earth Commander (2023). EDHREC ranks it #5,278 among Commander cards. It appears most in Queen Marchesa decks (5,951 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 6 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 Champions of Minas Tirith
- Riders of Rohan - Tales of Middle-earth Commander, led by Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Commanders that run Champions of Minas Tirith most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Queen Marchesa: 5,951 decks
- Éowyn, Shieldmaiden: 5,883 decks
- Aragorn, King of Gondor: 4,314 decks
- Jared Carthalion, True Heir: 1,548 decks
- Faramir, Steward of Gondor: 529 decks
- Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned: 293 decks
- Faramir, Prince of Ithilien: 278 decks
- Nils, Discipline Enforcer: 182 decks
Often played with Champions of Minas Tirith
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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 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.
- : An opponent who chooses not to pay {X} for Champions of Minas Tirith's last ability can still attack planeswalkers you control or battles you're protecting.
- : 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.