Countering spells is almost always a crime, but with a couple of exceptions
Yes, the Outlaws of Thunder Junction cards with plot are easy to include, and while you don't have access to red's impulse draw, you do get discounts on foretell, flashback, and adventure costs, so you have multiple sets to draw from if you want to swap in what you have or more of your favorites
but since Yargle, Glutton of Urborg is nightmare fuel, I will not be featuring them anymore this week
Zealot's Conviction - 10.99 Another one mana trick people are sleeping on right now, the thing that sticks out to me is that the first strike (and the stat boost) sticks around giving you value after you win the combat
If the chosen creature is copying something else, then Machine God's Effigy enters the battlefield as whatever the chosen creature is copying (with the listed exceptions)