5 Shadow of the Enemy Yes, Shadow of the Enemy requires a lot of mana to make work, but there are plenty of ways to get a lot of mana even in Tales of Middle-earth (Smaug would like to give you 14 treasure tokens, just as an example)
Sunbird Standard / Sunbird Effigy Tell me you're a sunburst card without having sunburst as a keyword
The permission from countermagic is another huge factor
An Orzhov (white/black) 3/2 with flying and mentor for four mana, whenever another creature under your control dies, you create an amount of 2/1 flying Inkling tokens equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature
Those are the best Innistrad: Midnight Hunt combos for standard, historic, and commander formats in MtG
We know the narrator's identity from the beginning, but his relation to the cast is only revealed at the end when he signs his full name