I didn't have a strong early game, but managed to avoid taking damage for quite a while thanks to a turn three Glarb, Calamity's Augur
Griselbrand is banned in Commander and isn't legal in Pioneer
When it comes to building a Commander collection, lands and colorless cards are especially important because you'll use these cards in multiple decks
There's no real rhyme or reason to which cards I picked other than they had interesting stories I thought of easily while writing this column
Falco Spara, Pactweaver Falco Spara, Pactweaver is a Bant commander that lets you look at and play cards from the top of your library at the cost of removing a counter from a creature you control
Put an Assassin, Pirate, or Vehicle card from among them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order