WIth the superior draw power of Amethyst, it doesn't make a lot of sense to use a card that relies on your hand being empty, especially an uninkable one
You can also run artifact lands like Great Furnace for extra redundancy
There were no good answers to a Frenetic Efreet, only answers that worked half the time, so as long as you weren't far enough behind that he was ignorable the Efreet was always effective
Zombies want to be wiped Gravecrawler, Endless Ranks, and reanimation mean your board comes back faster than your opponents
Finally, Spell Snare doubled up in price this week to between $5 and $10 depending on the printing (the cheapest version is currently The List reprinting, although there are very few The List copies on the market)
Today were covering the Midnight Hunt Commander precons in a new series called Flash of Insight