The Monarch mechanic also feels like a lazy way to shoehorn in card draw in such an impressive deck
Hence, if 3 was chosen, Haktos can be destroyed by Murder but can't even be targeted by Heartless Act
How to defeat a planeswalker
NDO has three benefits: Standardized ordering simplifies quality control Perception of untouched freshness and newness: Consumers, gamblers and collectors expect and appreciate a neutral, unshuffled starting point (Incidentally, casino decks are pre-shuffled, and finally punched or stamped to prevent re-use) This order is useful for many card tricks and effects, by ensuring memorability, facilitating sleight-of-hand and false shuffles, and the ascending-then-descending order allows for tricks that depend on palindromic or cyclic structures
Finally, I cut two Mountains, making our land count 38