It's ominous and the line "Stay indoors, away from what seeps over the thresholds" reminds me of H.P Lovecraft - Which also comes up quite a lot in metal
The second, more obvious reason that cubes frequently take advantage of proxies is that cubes tend to include expensive cards
Standard and Historic are the two subsets of Constructed
In a fast aggro deck, 4 warped damage out of nowhere really hurts, and later, your opponent has to deal with the real dragon
The second problem is a much larger one: just what in the planeswalking fuck is some of the art here
A lot of the new cards in this deck bring plenty of support for the monarch theme: Denethor, Stone Seer, Archivist of Gondor, omer, King of Rohan, Champions of Minas Tirith, Forth Eorlingas!, Crown of Gondor, Fealty to the Realm, and Oath of Eorl all bring some much needed support for the archetype, and in varied and interesting ways