Monarch doesnt do very well on its own, but it becomes much more interesting if you pair it up with another theme or strategy
Remember, a card has to be able to draw at minimum two cards on its own before we'll call it card draw. The following are fine examples of cantripping colorless cards, but not necessarily the type of card draw we're focusing on: Chromatic Sphere Fountainport Bell Vexing Bauble Mishra's Bauble Relic of Progenitus Solemn Simulacrum Library of Alexandria Library of Alexandrias power level is such that it's banned in almost every sanctioned format except Vintage, where it's restricted
Well, I invented something we had never done in Magic before to showcase it: At one point I thought about putting this on a cycle of big bosses, but in the end, I felt it could just stand alone on Ancient Adamantoise as something splashy and unique and that would get some weird attention of its own
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The likes of Portent, Ponder, and Diabolic Vision are sorceries that can also manipulate the deck but that slow speed can be your downfall
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