Crimson Fleet Commodore

Monarch was designed to make racing symmetrical: whoever wears the crown draws an extra card each turn, and the crown transfers to whoever last dealt combat damage to its holder. Most monarch creatures pay for that engine by being defensively awkward or expensive, because holding the throne means surviving to hold it. This design breaks that assumption from the opposite direction. The 5/2 body with trample is built to hit hard and die fast, which means it will steal the crown, cash one draw trigger, and then hand the monarchy right back to whoever punches through its two toughness. That fragility is the balancing lever: a durable monarch would lock up the card advantage, so the design hands you a glass cannon that keeps the crown only while the board stays clear. The trample is not incidental either; it exists to force through the combat damage that both applies pressure and, when swinging into a defender who holds the crown, reclaims it. It reads like a value creature but plays like a tempo one, a body whose job is to bully an opening and dare the table to knock it over before the next upkeep.