Each starter deck features a pre-made, 60-card deck with two foil cards, 11 damage counters, and a single booster pack, which contains a spread of 11 cards drawn from their respective expansions
*Sure, whittling down to 100 can take many, many hours
Besides creatures that make more creatures, ideal reanimation targets are creatures that have a big impact the moment they hit the battlefield, so that even an opponent holding Swords to Plowshares with available will have a hard time recovering from your unfairness
Just like the Sliver cards and Persistent Petitioners, the Shadowborn Apostles have all been bonus cards, rather than dedicated drops
And to make it stick, Jared says that you cannot become the monarch this turn, so even if you have a creature that can deal damage to the new monarch, you cant snatch it back until your next turn
A lot of combo creatures have low power, and this is conveniently costed at 5 mana to work well in many different Birthing Pod combo lines