Though not directly related to equipment, ability doublers are an excellent payoff for these cards as the best equipment are often those with strong triggered abilities, like Skullclamp and the Swords
If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed
Of the 34 Amber cards in The First Chapter base set, you wont find many Villains in fact, theres only the Greek God of the Underworld, Hades, who appears in two different incarnations
But that's understandable, since MtG single-handedly invented the genre of trading card games
Riot is a replacement effect
As the name fittingly suggests, this deck is great for your "First Flight" into Commander as playing it teaches you alot of the core mechanics of the game and once it clicks, you will be playing Commander with ease