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
7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005 2004-12-30 War-Lion Ritual (GX1) Yu-Gi-Oh
(1) If you control no monsters, or all monsters you control are DARK Synchro Monsters: You can Special Summon this card from your hand
Hone their Attack, Defense, and other stats, and even alter their Abilities and moves to try out different strategies in battle
I get the rush and the gamble, but this is one where the odds are seriously, seriously stacked against the opener