The full texts of these abilities are "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch." If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card
Mill is a very popular archetype in EDH, and The Water CrystalThe Water Crystal fits perfectly there...And that's probably its only home
In a 40-life format, unless youre planning on Storming off with lots of free noncreature spells, the Wizards just arent that scary
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While I do think Mana Confluence will sometimes be the better choice, having Starting Town as an option gives us a lot of deckbuilding potential