The card itself more than makes up for it, and annoyingly enough has reach, which will be problematic for many an EDH deck
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." (2025-06-06) 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
Its interesting that often, rarity is presented as a reason for a card to justify power cards that are probably too good are excused with its meant to be a rare or its meant to be pushed, and thats always funny to me when you consider how few people are actually making things based on rarity
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If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead
For instance, I predicted Bartz and Boko would be Partner cards, but instead they share a card