Setting a Budget You Can Enjoy and Stick To Ripping is at its best when it feels like entertainment, and that only holds when the spending stays inside a line you draw in advance
Despite this, I would not recommend playing Monument to Endurance outside the sideboard
You can look back for ninjas and turtles to fill in, but watch for mutants in the future and the power to put +1/+1 counters on them is key
or bodies to rumble in the Red Zone for when Judith, the Scourge Diva wants to get the party started
That has synergies with lots of effects that discard cards like the connive ability, wheel effects, and looting effects
Guardian Projects real power is in Commander, as a singleton format ensures that Guardian Project will always trigger and keep its players hand abundantly stocked with options