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Thorn of the Black Rose: [Monarch Card] Except for the monarch bit, it's just another common creature to get that limited creature count up

If you do cast it from your hand, rebound will work regardless of whether you paid its mana cost (for example, if you cast it from your hand due to Maelstrom Archangel)

Mana income from permanents in play is very reliable and can be accelerated quite easily in Commander, but it is still ultimately capped by how many untap steps you see

I'm building for redundancy, with enough payoffs that if I play one and it gets removed, I have a reasonable chance of drawing into another before too long