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." (2020-11-10) 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
Of course, drawing up to seven cards is nothing to sniff at, but when youre paying this much mana on your commander you want it to do a little more than that
Demand for certain Pokmon or sets also influences the price, as does the timing of the sale sometimes values increase around anniversaries or events
Since they knew that I had the cash and am a fair dude, they came to me first when they wanted to sell their cards
It became one of the most iconic and sought-after Trainer cards in modern Pokemon TCG history.
For another example, Peasant Levies is another card from my set