Across the modern top 10, the PSA 10 premium ranges from 3.3x to 14x
For the most part, this set presents a lot of the same: Pokmon- EX that maintain most of the power, ineffective rare cards, and only one Special Energy this time around (and a fairly boring one at that)
Boosting your creatures power and toughness or giving it abilities like lifelink or deathtouch can quickly turn the fight in your favor
Palace Sentinels Palace Sentinels took Pauper by storm on release in 2016, though it's one of the weaker monarch cards at this point
As design philosophy has changed and they have added more value to cards (including lands), card advantage has become less of a constraint, and being constrained as mana has become the games core constraint
Of course, there would have to be a sideboard to deal with the "only countering certain types of spells" problem