Once you control three or more qualifying permanents at the same time, enduring story is locked in for the rest of the game, regardless of what happens to those permanents afterward
Disrupting Shoal I think Disrupting Shoal can feel a bit counterintuitive at first glance because of how specific its effect feels
This means that these cards generally have a higher equip cost, and they cost mana to remove from a creature, but it also means that they're useful even when there are no other creatures on the field
There are many reasons why this deck is favorable against that particular one, but the most prominent reasons are thanks to the fact that Cogsworth is the strongest counter against Steel in general
Unlike many other Monarch-related cards, Queen Marchesa wants other players to have the Monarch so she can keep creating death touching assassin tokens
[[Ultima]] as a surprise sweeper