Heres a brief list of excellent creatures at mana values 1 through 8 that can work as a good primer for your deckbuilding adventure: Mana Value 1: Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, Arbor Elf, Allosaurus Shepherd
Super fun and easy for students to do and allows them creative freedom with what kind of card game they may be into
If you go with the Mardu side, and you had a creature die under your control on your turn, you get to make all your opponents sacrifice a creature of their choice, whittling down the board but having a decidedly smaller impact than the Abzan side
Femeref Healer Rarity: Common TYPE: Creature SUBTYPE: Human Cleric CMC: 2 Mana cost: USD: $0.07 EUR: 0.10 TIX: 0.12 EDHREC RANK: 30374 (1/1) : Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn
In addition to the stat boost, Prava of the Steel Legion can make tokens itself if you have mana to dump into its effect
Extra card draw is one of the strongest mechanics in Pokmon TCG Pocket , which is why cards like Pok Ball and Professor's Research are so good