The full texts of these abilities are "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch." If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card
Notably, exiling Spine of Ish Sah even enables Idris to return to your hand should it die rather than the command zone, making it easier to replay your Commander on a discount
The first is to fill out gaps in your collection
Loot, Exuberant Explorer, Bloodbraid Challenger, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, and Emergent Woodwurm are all great at sneaking creatures into play without even paying for them
Blue Amazing Acrobatics Rating: 3/10 Tapping two creatures is a mediocre effect thats great when you can win the game the following turn, but its awful any other time
Armored Ascension, Strata Scythe and Blackblade Reforged should each pump Reidane up to be at least a three-turn clock