monarch mtg cards The Token Common At the beginning of your end step Rules Text: Monarch, Colors: White,

Subterranean Spirit (US$1.60) Subterranean Spirit is criminally under utilised, mainly because 5 mana for a 3/3 is not terribly exciting

However, it's less effective against go-wide strategies

(The mutating spell might need flash.) I'm struggling to see the interaction here - Mutate is a static ability that functions while a spell is on the stack, Backup itself seems to be a triggered ability that functions when the Sledge-Captain ETBs and it adds a couple of abilities that are well understood

Provided you bake in scry lands, surveil lands (and fetchlands to grab them on other folks turns), and other ways to Scry or Surveil at instant speed, you can multiply those free casts

This would lead you to believe that Magic is about competition and seriously tight gameplay