Or is it? Conspiracy: Take the Crown adds a new element to the game – The Monarch. The Monarch gets to draw a card at the beginning of their end step. Awesome, but how does one become the Monarch? Well, first you can play one of these cards. But the more entertaining (and possibly easier method) is to deal combat damage to the poor sap that is the current Monarch. It remains to be seen whether being the Monarch will draw the ire of the table and whether the extra card is worth the extra attention. Maybe folks will try to avoid being the Monarch, but I doubt it.
There are some other fun new mechanics as well such as Council’s Dilemma. These cards require each player to decide between two choices on the card. Do you want to give someone an extra turn or their choice of a permanent you control? Quite the dilemma!
Finally, Conspiracy cards are back and in true fashion, they are not searchable on Wizard’s Card Search so you will have to wait to see them. The important thing to note though is they do not count towards your 40 cards in your deck. Should you take a conspiracy card or the card your deck needs? Tough decisions ahead…
There are two other new mechanics, Goad and Melee, but you can look those up on your own.
No, seriously. Look them up yourself.
Nice read. I hadn’t read up on Melee or Goad other than some passing reference to them. Here’s the links to the Goad and Melee rules:
http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Goad
http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Melee
I’ll also add some new links on the Links page that will include some Conspiracy information.
Thank you for posting! I added some tags to the post so it’s easier to search for on the site.
Looking forward to Sunday!
Here’s the overview on how the draft is supposed to go:
http://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/cr905/
What’s the timing of drawing a card during the end step … does that come before the hand size check?
It goes End Step then Clean up. Cards that allow you to do something “at the end of the turn” would happen during the End Step. Strangely, cards that say “until end of turn” and “this turn” end in the clean up step. Even more weird is that if card is waiting for the End of Turn to trigger or say,”“at the beginning of the next cleanup step”, then these go off in the End Step and add that effect to the stack—which doesn’t normally exist in the End Step–meaning a round of fast effects can be played until the stack completes.
Assuming that you draw the card during the End Step, you will be checking hand size at the start of the Clean up Step.