Esior, Wardwing Familiar Esior, Wardwing Familiar is mana-positive right away and has a sizable impact even if it or one of your other partner commanders are never targeted
Crystal Fragments Crystallized Serah Dragoon's Lance Machinist's Arsenal Magitek Armor Magitek Infantry Paladin's Arms Phoenix Down The Wind Crystal White Auracite White Mage's Staff
Starting at 6 loyalty, it's totally reasonable to use the -3 ability on the turn Chandra, Awakened Inferno comes down, sweeping smaller creatures off of the board
Some very good reprints are combined with a clear plan to create clues, draw cards, and profit
Here are the planeswalkers (Nissa is shown in the Grixis post): Jian Yanggu is really important to place counters on creatures with no counters
The flying, trample, and haste should help you draw many cards, but I feel that even with a reduction this commander is just too expensive to be consistently strong