Skyline Despot
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2016-08-23
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.”
- 2016-08-23
The last ability of Skyline Despot checks to see if you're the monarch as your upkeep 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 upkeep 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.
- 2016-08-23
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.
- 2016-08-23
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.
- 2016-08-23
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Skyline Despot, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lathliss, Dragon Queen | 2 | 0 | — |
| Ruric Thar, the Unbowed | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Red 2 decks
- Gruul 1 deck
Every version of Skyline Despot
6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

The List
- Normal
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Foundations Commander
- Normal
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- Foil
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Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $3.90

- Normal
- $0.87
- Foil
- $0.89

- Normal
- $0.58

Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Normal
- $0.76
- Foil
- $3.76
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Skyline Despot. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.