Marchesa Upgrades Some of the more powerful monarch cards are a bit pricey, but worth the slots if you pick them up later
Your opponent decides what to discard, both during the resolution and indirectly by deciding which cards to hold back on their turn as fodder for further discard spells
Once we have creatures that can change their own creature type we start looking at making creatures that can change other creatures types: Then we have non-creature cards that change creature type: This, of course, led to a card that could only change creatures to a single locked type: One of the flavors of black over the years is that black likes to bring others over to the dark side
In Magics first ten years, that philosophy seemed operational enough to make a decent number of them
Thankfully, Magic: the Gathering has a card for just that
Illustrated by Justine Cruz Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp