Fall from Favor is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature and you become the monarch. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step unless that player is the monarch.
Complete guide
Fall from Favor is a powerful blue Aura that combines tempo control with the high-stakes mechanic of the monarchy. By locking down a threat and providing card advantage, it forces your opponents to change their entire game plan to reclaim the crown. Knowing how the monarchy shifts is key to mastering this card's potential.
Claiming the Crown
When Fall from Favor enters the battlefield, two things happen immediately via its triggered ability: the enchanted creature is tapped, and you become the monarch. Being the monarch grants you a triggered ability that draws you a card at the beginning of your end step. However, it also puts a target on your back, as any opponent who deals combat damage to you with a creature will take the title of monarch for themselves.
The Icy Grip of Law
The secondary effect of Fall from Favor is a static ability that prevents the enchanted creature from untapping during its controller's untap step. There is only one exception: the creature's controller must be the monarch. If you are the monarch, or if a third player has taken the crown, the enchanted creature remains tapped and useless. The creature only regains its mobility once its controller successfully deals combat damage to the current monarch or uses another effect to seize the title.
Timing and Targeting
Because the 'tap and become monarch' effect is an enters-the-battlefield trigger, the Aura must successfully resolve and be attached to a legal target first. If the target creature gains protection from blue or is removed from the battlefield in response to you casting Fall from Favor, the spell is removed from the stack and you will not become the monarch. Once it is on the battlefield, the monarchy exists for the rest of the game; even if Fall from Favor is destroyed, the current monarch remains the monarch until someone else takes it.
Strategic Deployment
Fall from Favor is best used on an opponent's most dangerous attacker or a utility creature with a powerful activated ability that requires tapping. By choosing a creature belonging to a player who struggles to deal combat damage, you ensure that they cannot easily untap their creature while you reap the rewards of the extra card draw every turn.
Interaction examples
PropagandaYou cast Fall from Favor on an opponent's creature, becoming the monarch and tapping the threat. With Propaganda on the battlefield, your opponents must now pay two mana for each creature they want to attack you with. This makes it significantly harder for them to deal the combat damage required to steal the monarchy, keeping their enchanted creature tapped indefinitely.
Rhystic StudyAfter becoming the monarch with Fall from Favor, you move to your end step to draw a card. If you also have Rhystic Study, you are creating a massive card advantage engine. Your opponents are faced with a dilemma: play spells and let you draw via Rhystic Study, or try to attack you to take the monarchy while you continue to draw extra cards every turn regardless of their spells.
The MonarchYou enchant an opponent's creature with Fall from Favor and become the monarch. On the opponent's turn, they attack you with a different creature and deal combat damage. According to the rules of The Monarch, that opponent now becomes the monarch. Because they now hold the title, the static ability of Fall from Favor no longer applies to them, and their enchanted creature will untap normally during their next untap step.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Fall from Favor
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Fall from Favor tries to resolve, it doesn't resolve. It won't enter the battlefield, so its enters-the-battlefield ability won't trigger.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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."
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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