Bonus top common: The life-gain dual lands These are great for avoiding mana screw and enabling splashes, and you shouldn't be too afraid to take them early
The Cabbage Merchant They really beat The Cabbage Merchant joke to death, with a Jumpstart card, the main set Unlucky Cabbage Merchant, and a whole Secret Lair of reprints that feature the beloved peddler of cabbages
Any continuous effects with a "for as long as" duration, such as that of Mind Flayer, ignore phased-out objects
Basim Ibn Ishaq is a Dimir (blue/black) commander that has useful effects that encourage the usage of historic spells to get the most out of his abilities
But the big-brain play is to point a dying Augur at someone elses corpse-piled graveyard so that when someone tries to blow this out they arent removing your pile of dead but still extremely useful zombies
With a strong turn one or two, Misty can defeat even the most unfortunate matchups