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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

It would also have been available to cast off of Sunforger, and beaten out other similar spells as the de facto best in slot

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

Survives Shocks and their equivalents, guaranteed to get its value back in damage, and both a good attacker and defender

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