On its own, the starter deck lacks characters with high strength and willpower, which can be a struggle against other starters
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." 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
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Or, to put it another way, it loves items
Once you flip him into Ifrit, you get a 9/9 that immediately fights another creature
TMNT will be in rotation longer than Lorwyn Eclipsed , even though its only two-thirds its size