Where the aforementioned spells ask you to lean in through gameplay, Patriarchs Bidding offers a deck building incentive: stack your deck with creatures of a single type, and youre guaranteed to get more out of this card than most opponents
Absolute Virtue Absolutely huge for sure, and definitely protects you but Absolute Virtue has an accordingly large mana cost and its lack of protection will likely limit it to being an option in reanimator decks
My favorite double-faced villain is Ultimecia, Time Sorceress, which has an ability we'd normally never put at uncommon, especially on a creature: an extra-turn effect
You also want to grab Miles Morales, who could either helm your Spider Hero deck, or be one of the best cards in the 99
(You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost
With an extremely low mana curve and seven cards that create two permanents for one mana (Legions Landing and Cartouche of Solidarity), this deck can ascend as early as turn 3 and will almost always have the citys blessing by turn 4