Throne Warden
Throne Warden: Creature - Human Soldier, Conspiracy: Take the Crown. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Creature - Human Soldier
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2)
- Released
- 2016-08-26
- Collector number
- 25
- Artist
- Chris Rallis
About Throne Warden
Throne Warden is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common white creature from Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2), a draft-focused set released in August 2016. It is collector number 25 in that set, with art by Chris Rallis. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is white. 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 Treasure Chest (2016). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.27 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-18).
Card text
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
"Rulers come and go, but my allegiance belongs to the throne."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.27 (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 Throne Warden 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 Throne Warden
Throne Warden has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Chest (PZ2) #1 | Common | 2016 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Throne Warden, newest first.
- The last ability of Throne Warden checks to see if you're the monarch as your end step begins. If you're not, the ability won't trigger at all. You won't be able to do anything that would make you the monarch during your end step in time to have that ability trigger. The ability will also check to see if you're the monarch as it tries to resolve. If you're not the monarch at that time, the ability will have no effect.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
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