Court summons

"Summons" redirects here. For the skill, see Summoning.

Court summons
Release	9 June 2010 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Destroy	Destroying this scroll will clear all the work you've done on the case. You won't be able to access the case again unless you get another court summons.
Values
Value	1 coin
High alch	0 coins
Low alch	0 coins
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0.02 kg
Examine
A summons to the Seers' Village courthouse.
Advanced data
Item ID	18757
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The interface of a Court summons.

A court summons is an item required to take part in the Court Cases Distraction and Diversion. Completion of the King's Ransom quest is required to obtain a court summons. Players can only have one court summons at a time.

Reading the court summons, the player is informed which case has been assigned to them. Players seeking a specific court summons can destroy unwanted summons, allowing for another summons to be obtained. This can be useful for players looking for specific rewards, although it may be faster to complete the case, ensuring the case will not appear again.

Acquiring

Court summons can be obtained through a variety of means:

• Monster drops
• Pickpocketing
• As a reward from Hard and Elite Treasure Trails
• As a reward from the Giant Oyster
• As a reward from Treasure turtle
• Randomly from caskets
• Randomly from tier 4 and greater magical chests, obtained from the Dwarven instinct aura

Drop sources

This list was created dynamically. For help, see the FAQ.

To force an update of this list, click here.

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Aberrant spectre	72; 78	1	Very rare
Abyssal demon	98	1	Rare
Abyssal demon (elite)	107	1	Rare
Acheron mammoth	135	1	Very rare
Adamant dragon	116	1	Uncommon
Al Kharid warrior	0; 25	1	Uncommon
Armoured zombie	42; 46; 84; 86; 91	1	Very rare
Bandit (Kharid Bandit Camp)	0; 53	1	Rare
Bandit (Kharid Bandit Camp)	54	1	Very rare
Bandit (Pollnivneach)	53	1	Very rare
Black dragon	100	1	Very rare
Casket	N/A	1	5/128
Chaos Elemental P2P	Not available	1	Very rare	N/A
Chaos dwogre	92; 98	1	Rare
Dark beast	105	1	Very rare
Dark beast (elite)	114	1	Very rare
Desert strykewyrm	103	1	Rare
Dust devil	85	1	Very rare
Dust devil (elite)	95	1	Very rare
Exiled kalphite marauder	98; 107	1	Very rare
Fire giant	85	1	Very rare
Frost dragon	112	1	Rare
Ganodermic beast	112	1	Very rare
Ghostly warrior	61	1	Very rare
Gnome (monster)	75	1	Very rare
Gnome child	75	1	Very rare
Gnome woman	0; 75	1	Very rare
Gorak	74; 95	1	Rare
Green dragon	63	1	Very rare
Hero	0; 80	1	Rare
Hill giant	44	1	Rare
Ice strykewyrm	106	1	Very rare
Iron dragon	98	1	Very rare
Jungle strykewyrm	93	1	Very rare
Kalphite Guardian	72	1	Very rare
King Black Dragon	276	1	Rare
Knight of Ardougne	53	1	Uncommon
Lesser demon	70	1	Rare
Lesser demon (Demon Flash Mobs)	109	1	Rare
Living rock striker	92	1	Very rare
Magical chest	N/A	1	Varies
Mature grotworm	98	1	Very rare
Moss giant	28; 51; 61	1	Very rare
Mountain troll	75	1	Rare
Nechryael	96	1	Rare
Nechryael (elite)	106	1	Rare
Nex	1001	1	Very rare
Ork statue	71	1	Very rare
Paladin	0; 70	1	Uncommon
Paladin	49	1	Rare
Reward casket (elite)	Elite	1	Common
Reward casket (hard)	Hard	1	Common
Rock (monster)	88	1	Rare
Rock lobster	100	1	Very rare
Rockslug	42; 49	1	Rare
Rune dragon	127	1	Very rare
Scabaras lancer	77	1	Rare
Sir Carl	81	1	Rare
Sir Harry	81	1	Rare
Sir Jerro	81	1	Rare
Steel dragon	100	1	Uncommon
Tormented demon	119	1	Very rare
Trader	90	1	Rare
Treasure Trails	N/A	1	Common	N/A
Troll general	91	1	Very rare
Turoth	64; 66; 68; 69; 71	1	Very rare
Warped tortoise	72	1	Rare
Waterfiend	102; 107	1	Very rare
Waterfiend (elite)	111	1	Very rare

Pickpocketing

The following table outlines suggested monsters that can reward a court summons when pickpocketed. This is not an exhaustive list.

Name	Level	Location
Al Kharid warrior	25	Al Kharid palace
Warrior Woman	25	Ardougne, Varrock Castle
Knight of Ardougne	55	Ardougne market, Ardougne Castle
Paladin	70	Ardougne market, Ardougne Castle
Gnome	75	Tree Gnome Stronghold, Tree Gnome Village, Battlefield
Hero	80	Ardougne market
Dwarf trader	90	Trade Octagon

Strategies

• Caskets — Purchasable from the Grand Exchange, this is potentially the quickest method of obtaining a court summons. However, each casket will cost the player 800 coins.
• Dwarven instinct aura — For players with a total level of 1401 or greater, magical chests have a chance to award court summons; up to 7 chests can be opened in an hour.
• Hill giants — Can be killed quickly by players with medium level combat skills. They drop court summons relatively often. Large numbers can be found within the Edgeville dungeon and resource dungeon.
• Pickpocketing — Players with a medium Thieving level will rarely be caught pickpocketing Al Kharid warriors. It is suggested to equip a bow without arrows, or a weapon which prevents attacking, such as the Sculpting chisel to avoid entering combat against your Thieving target. Knights of Ardougne should be considered for players above level 70 Thieving.

Disassembly

Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 97.9 2 49 95.9 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.0 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.1
Possible materials
Often
Simple parts	99/100
Rarely
Variable components	1/100

defaultdefaultDefault disassembly itemstabletabletabletable1? (edit)0.198.9?  98.9%

Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched.
See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information.

Reduction		Junk chance
None	1	98.9%
1	34	97.9
2	49	95.9
3	64	94.0
4	69	92.0
5	78	90.0
6	83	87.0
7	91	85.1
8	95	82.1
9	105	79.1

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Disassembly JSON: {"mat_quantity":1,"xp":0.1,"rarely":[{"name":"Variable components","chance":1}],"category":"default","junk":[98.9,97.911,95.933,93.955,91.977,89.99900000000001,87.03200000000001,85.054,82.087,79.12],"level":1,"item_quantity":1,"often":[{"name":"Simple parts","chance":99}]}

Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

ninja 27 March 2017 (Update):

• • Loot beams for the lore book drops that were recently granted bad luck mitigation have been updated, in order that they clear more reliably (and generally behave like other loot beams).

• patch 6 March 2017 (Update):
  • We have added bad luck mitigation to some lore drops so that cumulative monster kills shift the drop rate towards 100% once a certain threshold has been reached. This affects drops which have a drop rate of 1/100 (or worse). Court summons are affected by this, only if they are obtained via monster kills.

• ninja 17 November 2014 (Update):
  • Court summon drops now have a loot beam.

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