A few turns later, I managed to clean house on their side of the board with a combination of instant effects and character challenges, overtaking them for the win
Drafting and Sealed Play: Booster boxes are the essential requirement for Limited format tournaments
Valued at $40 once upon a time, this card defined the early metagame
Sure, banishing enemy characters through challenges is important, but questing is how you actually rack up that sweet, sweet lore
Thats seriously formidable power, before you even start challenging using its huge strength
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