That said, the same data carries a warning that most of that money is spread across modest, repeatable sales, not headline-grabbing sales
It is almost an auto include in any deck with miracles as it makes you much less susceptible to mulligans
How similar the cards in a cycle are to one another vary from cycle to cycle: Some cycles have obvious and strict patterns among them (such as the battlemages from Planeshift set
So when you see a card that is strictly superior to a card that used to see play (say, anything better than Shatter), that might give you an edge (or at least a clue) in new-card evaluation
The large mana curve works against it somewhat, but Pearl Medallion and Smothering Tithe help to get more mana
When this happens, the next turn player automatically becomes the commander (unless a different player killed them with combat damage, in which case the monarch moves the same way it normally would)