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It aims to prevent "pub-stomping" (crushing casual players) while avoiding being too weak

Now lets take a look at the cards in the deck that involve The Monarch Champions of Minas Tirith makes you the monarch and forces your opponent to pay a tax in order to attack you

1 Memory Plunder

Whether youre cracking a buttload of treasures, or suiting her up with a Cranial Plating and sacrificing a couple artifact creatures for big numbers, shell help you get over the finish line

The problem is that a 2/2 (even a 2/2 with flying) can be outclassed fairly quickly, so delaying Vexing Gull trades its early game relevance (pecking in for damage) for mid-game value (when you might be behind in the race or not be able to attack with Vexing Gull)

Ive seen people cast unbelievably large spells off this, from Expropriate to Torment of Hailfire