Commonly a white weenie or aristocrats inclusion
It also helps when search is strong, filters are precise, and recently played games are one tap away
Think of this as a mini Feast and Famine that can sometimes push your attackers through safely, and let you see more cards in a pinch
Gifts can also include creating a Treasure token (providing mana) from Blooming Blast, granting an extra turn from Perch Protection, or generating an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token from Octomancer
This mostly comes up in Cubes that try to get away from blue being the color the just counters things and attempts combos, though its also not all that difficult to see a controlling deck successfully leveraging a removal spell that grants the monarch, however inefficient that removal spell might be
BPhillipYork: Potentially you can generate a lot of tokens really fast and knock people out, maybe take some extra turns, which is a fairly scary thing