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What's more, if you don't like the cards you put back on top, it's trivially easy to find an effect to shuffle way them away
I guess this plan is better than doing M25, M26, M27
If they make you draw cards, they might have a way to capitalize on that, or if they choose to take more damage, they probably arent at risk of dying or theyre aiming to gain life
Let's look at each reason in turn: Vigilance - Since you want to swing to gain the Monarch and block to keep, enter vigilance letting you do both and ideally on an evasive dork like Serra Angel
12: Resculpt Im a little more willing to spend an extra mana on a removal spell than a counterspell because you dont always need it ready at the exact right time, you can wait until the right moment to answer something