Mazes End Maze's End asks you to load up on gates
Restricting your deck to only mono-blue spells removes options, but you can funnel all that mana into blue card draw spells to trigger the likes of Psychosis Crawler and Ominous Seas to bury your opponents in card advantage, damage, and triggers
Rather than an indiscriminate slaughter, as Liliana, Dreadhorde General participated in, Professor Onyx is a bit more specific in her murdering
Rude Awakening 4 This is somewhat of a Craterhoof Behemoth for a very land focused ramp deck
Creating additional combats is incredibly powerful but needing to Crew one with Baltheir and Fran, and pay three mana, is a lot of requirements for Standard
Getting three extra mana a turn especially late in the game is a great way to overwhelm your opponents in value as mentioned before