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Custodi Lichutility$0.46Also provides monarch support when it enters and helps maintain card advantage through the monarchy mechanic. It is a black creature that plays a similar political/value engine role in multiplayer.Palace Sentinelsutility$0.11Enters and makes you the monarch, just like Thorn of the Black Rose, serving as a straightforward monarch enabler. It is one of the closest functional replacements in white rather than black.Emberwilde Captainutility$5.54A monarch creature that gives you the monarchy on entry and helps stabilize the table through a defensive body. It fills the same monarch-centric value role in a different color.Regal Behemothutility$0.36Not the same cost, but it is a strong monarch creature that both grants and benefits from being the monarch. It overlaps in the role of generating sustained card advantage in multiplayer.Court of Ambitionutility$4.47This is a black monarch source that creates similar ongoing card advantage and pressure. It is an enchantment instead of a creature, but it fills the same monarchy engine role.Marchesa's Decreeutility$0.86Enters and makes you the monarch while also deterring attacks with life loss, similar to Thorn’s defensive value in politics-heavy games. It is a useful budget-friendly monarchy option.Black Market Connectionsutility$14.73Not a monarch card, but it occupies a similar black value-engine slot by generating repeated advantage at the cost of life. It is a premium upgrade for grindy black decks seeking incremental resources.Ravenous Chupacabraremoval$0.40A comparable black 4-drop creature that provides immediate board impact and contributes to attrition-based gameplay. While it does not make you the monarch, it serves the same midgame creature-value role.
