In fact, having played it a few times with middling success, Apprentice Wizard is pretty handy when it survives long enough to produce mana
The second problem is a much larger one: just what in the planeswalking fuck is some of the art here
Standard and Historic are the two subsets of Constructed
A lot of the new cards in this deck bring plenty of support for the monarch theme: Denethor, Stone Seer, Archivist of Gondor, omer, King of Rohan, Champions of Minas Tirith, Forth Eorlingas!, Crown of Gondor, Fealty to the Realm, and Oath of Eorl all bring some much needed support for the archetype, and in varied and interesting ways
It's ominous and the line "Stay indoors, away from what seeps over the thresholds" reminds me of H.P Lovecraft - Which also comes up quite a lot in metal