Rulings

• 2016-08-23
  Protector of the Crown's last ability doesn't depend on you being the monarch. It will create a redirection effect even if an opponent is the monarch.
• 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
  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.
• 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
  If you control more than one Protector of the Crown, you choose which redirection effect to apply. You can't divide damage dealt by one source. For example, if an attacking creature would deal 6 damage to you and you control two Protectors of the Crown, you may have that damage dealt to either of the Protectors. You can't have 3 damage dealt to each one.
• 2016-08-23
  If you control both Protector of the Crown and a planeswalker, and noncombat damage would be dealt to you, you choose the order in which Protector of the Crown's redirection effect and the planeswalker redirection effect apply. If damage is redirected to Protector of the Crown first, the planeswalker redirection effect won't apply. If you apply the planeswalker redirection effect first, the controller of the damage source chooses whether the damage will be dealt to the planeswalker or ultimately to Protector of the Crown.
• 2016-08-23
  Applying this redirection effect doesn't change whether the damage is combat damage.
• 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.
• 2016-08-23
  If you control more than one Protector of the Crown, you choose which redirection effect to apply. You can’t divide damage dealt by one source. For example, if an attacking creature would deal 6 damage to you and you control two Protectors of the Crown, you may have that damage dealt to either of the Protectors. You can’t have 3 damage dealt to each one.
• 2016-08-23
  Applying this redirection effect doesn’t change whether the damage is combat damage.
• 2016-08-23
  Protector of the Crown’s last ability doesn’t depend on you being the monarch. It will create a redirection effect even if an opponent is the monarch.