If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Path to Exile tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve
Then if you're the monarch, this enchantment deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of creatures you control
Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer is pure black and costs three mana to cast who surveils, causes any number of players to discard a card, and returns a cheap creature from the graveyard to the battlefield
It makes so much sense that, like in the games, they fight together
I did debate on just filling the rest of the manabase with basic lands, but ultimately, I felt that restricting the nonland spells to (mostly) Golgari guild cards was already keeping the overall power level down, so adding the best lands I could to the deck was fine
There's always a pendulum swinging on our preconstructed Commander decks, Bowen tells Polygon