One thing I encourage trying is to include as many flavorful cards as possible and be real stingy about including cards that are not flavorful (unless they are personal favorites or great synergy)
If you want more Bracket-specific deck inspiration, you can check these out: Building Commander Decks for Bracket 1 Building a Commander Deck for Bracket 2 Building Commander Decks for Bracket 3 Building to Bracket 4 in Commander Building to Bracket 5 in Commander
For example, a 1/1 Elemental creature that enters under your control "with a +1/+1 counter on it" won't receive an additional +1/+1 counter
And more importantly, the third-party resources I referenced heavily when putting together this newsletter (Scryfall, Gatherer, and MTGJson mostly) are also inconsistent with each other on points like these, although theyre all ridiculously comprehensive and consistent in their own ways
If youve been reading my article series on Amonkhet , you know that I love this set
Weathered Runestone Weathered Runestone can be excellent in decks using their graveyard for mechanics like delve or delirium that want to shut down creature-based graveyard strategies like Dredge and Reanimator