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Even in a non-energy deck, Amped Raptor gets sick value if your deck is full of only 1- and 2-drops, which is easy to do in aggro decks

While many of these are just done for the sake of meta humor, there are also some more practical reasons they did this

New cards: Eldritch Moon (2016) brought on another draw two, pay two life card in the form of Card not found (common), but this one just isnt as strong as before

Lets consider that Metamorph spell is resolving successfully and it is going to leave the stack and enter the battlefield

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Gaining And Losing Monarch As mentioned, monarch stays in play once it's been introduced