Canal Courier
Canal Courier: Creature - Human Rogue, Conspiracy: Take the Crown. When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}{U}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Creature - Human Rogue
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 3/5
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2)
- Released
- 2016-08-26
- Collector number
- 28
- Artist
- Raymond Swanland
About Canal Courier
Canal Courier is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common blue creature from Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2), a draft-focused set released in August 2016. It is collector number 28 in that set, with art by Raymond Swanland. It costs {5}{U} (five generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 3/5 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Pauper Commander. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Conspiracy: Take the Crown (2016) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.21 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-18).
Card text
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever this creature and another creature attack different players, this creature can't be blocked this combat.
The most effective roadways in Paliano aren't roads at all.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.21 (as of 2026-10-18).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Canal Courier by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
Other printings of Canal Courier
Canal Courier has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #CN2-28 | Common | 2026 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Canal Courier, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Attacking a planeswalker isn’t the same thing as attacking a player. Both Canal Courier and the other creature must attack different players for the last ability to trigger.
Similar cards
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