There are a whole host of more affordable, but still awesome, cards you can find on the secondary market for a few dollars each
Counter Blitz isn't just the best Commander precon in Final Fantasy, it's one of the best Commander precons of all time
Then, to no surprise, Sapphire continues to showcase Items and features Belle, Inventive Engineer who makes it even easier to bring an Item onto the field by making it cost one less ink if you play it after Belle quests
Of course, a ten-power five-mana creature on an otherwise empty battlefield wrecks people pretty quickly
(Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
There are multiple ways to remove counters from permanents, and you want these on the battlefield as quickly as possible