There are 15 cards with alternate art for Cid, Timeless Artificer when counting the main set version
To get the most out of Goldspan Dragon, you can consider using Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge, Magda, Brazen Outlaw, and Brass's Bounty.
Protection: Look for Auras that grant Indestructible , Ward , or Totem Armor
Ive tried a number of things in the past to remedy this problem without a ton of success
1 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 1 Marvo, Deep Operative 1 Case of the Shifting Visage 1 Copy Catchers 1 Final-Word Phantom 1 Watcher of Hours 1 Charnel Serenade 1 Eye of Duskmantle 1 Foreboding Steamboat 1 Unshakable Tail 1 Counterpoint 1 Ransom Note (Surveil) 1 Amphin Mutineer 1 Dream Eater 1 Mission Briefing 1 Phyrexian Metamorph 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun 1 Vizier of Many Faces 1 Black Sun's Zenith 1 Dogged Detective 1 Doom Whisperer 1 Grave Titan 1 Massacre Wurm 1 Overseer of the Damned 1 Phyrexian Arena 1 Pile On 1 Reanimate 1 Rise of the Dark Realms 1 Toxic Deluge 1 Twilight Prophet 1 Baleful Strix 1 Connive // Concoct 1 Lazav, the Multifarious 1 Master of Death 1 Choked Estuary 1 Darkwater Catacombs 1 Drownyard Temple 1 Fetid Pools 1 Hostile Desert 1 River of Tears 1 Sunken Hollow 1 Brainstorm 1 Consider 1 Curate 1 Deep Analysis 1 Enhanced Surveillance 1 Ephara's Dispersal 1 Mulldrifter 1 Nightveil Sprite 1 Otherworldly Gaze 1 Thoughtbound Phantasm 1 Animate Dead 1 Necromancy 1 Price of Fame 1 Ravenous Chupacabra 1 Shriekmaw 1 Sinister Starfish 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim 1 Whispering Snitch 1 Dimir Spybug 1 Discovery // Dispersal 1 Disinformation Campaign 1 Notion Rain 1 Arcane Signet 1 Dimir Signet 1 Everflowing Chalice 1 Mind Stone 1 Sol Ring 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Thought Vessel 1 Ash Barrens 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Command Tower 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Myriad Landscape 1 Mystic Sanctuary 1 Port of Karfell 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Rogue's Passage 1 Tainted Isle 1 Temple of the False God 1 Tocasia's Dig Site 9 Island 9 Swamp Revenant Recon Tokens 4 Copy // Zombie tokens 4 Salamander Warrior // Zombie tokens 1 City's Blessing (helper) // Zombie token 1 Vizier of Many Faces // Zombie token Copy // Zombie Salamander Warrior // Zombie City's Blessing (Helper) // Zombie Vizier of Many Faces // Zombie Deadly Disguise Kaust, Eyes of the Glade and Duskana, the Rage Mother are traditional foil cards
Your whole mana base could be nonbasics if you wanted, but almost every deck out there has some number of basics, just there, keeping it real
