Starscream, Power Hungry and Starscream, Seeker Leader do some unique monarch stuff that would be way cooler on a card with a lot fewer words and sides
It's ridiculous
Nashi, Searcher in the Dark An evasive 2-drop that gets bigger and fills the graveyard, Nashi, Searcher in the Dark from Duskmourn: House of Horror plays like a powered-down Psychic Frog, which has been more than viable in its home formats of Modern and Legacy
Then later, you can harness the Soul Stone and turn it into a very powerful artifact that reanimates a creature for free every turn, much like Virtue of Persistence
Itll be cool to see what happens when people actually start playing with the creatures and spells from Battle for Zendikar block rather than just the lands to support cards from Khans not to mention the new cards from Shadows over Innistrad itself
Incidentally, Food was actually added to the game as a card type in 2019 with the Throne of Eldraine set