Forth Eorlingas!
The scaling here works differently than most X-spell token makers, because the X buys tempo, not just board size. Every token arrives with trample and haste, so the moment they resolve they are already an attack: the spell doubles as its own combat step, converting a mana investment into immediate pressure the same turn. That immediacy is what makes the monarch clause land. Because the tokens can swing on entry, the connect-with-a-player trigger is not a hope, it is a plan, and the crown starts drawing cards the very turn the horde arrives. Most monarchy grants come attached to a static body or an evasive one-drop and ask you to protect it over several turns; this one hands you the crown while simultaneously flooding the board with the bodies that defend it. The two halves are load-bearing on each other. Cast it small and it is a modest go-wide burst; cast it large and the haste turns a pile of 2/2s into lethal-adjacent reach while the monarch trigger refills your hand for the counterattack. The design puts the payoff and the enabler in the same card: the swarm makes the card advantage happen, and the card advantage sustains the swarm. It is a rare instance of red-white aggression that keeps drawing after the alpha strike, which is precisely the resource problem that usually caps how far a go-wide plan can push.
