For seven mana you get an on curve 7/7 with four powerful keywords - flying (evasion), vigilance (very strong in multiplayer swinging at people in the air for Commander Damage and then holding the fort), deathtouch (no one wants to block) lifelink (nice double life swing for that 7 damage.)
And it's a pretty safe bet that we'll see a serialized infinity stone, following the trend started with The Soul Stone in Marvels Spider-Man
The name pushed in that direction
As always, I'm eager to hear your thoughts on today's column, any of the battles or planes I talked about, or just March of the Machine as a whole
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
encore makes it hard to remove profitably without exile-based interaction