Heres the part that makes him awesome, that life loss trigger fires on any land you discard, not just the connive, so every other discard outlet in the 99 quietly becomes a drain spell
Hunting Velociraptor If youve ever seen Jurassic park, you know just how scary these things can be
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary does a very good job of imitating it, but its infinitely more difficult to build around Cloud in Limited
These exist on non-zombie creatures but allow you to bring those creatures back from the graveyard as zombie tokens
It needs more creatures that work well with spells so you get damage in early with Guttersnipe and have a card like Giant Koi as an option to finish the late game, where it attacks unblocked because of waterbending
Beledros Witherbloom does produce Pest tokens, but seven mana is a high price to pay for a commander