While equipped to Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, Sword of Fire and Ice allows you to deal two damage to two targets and draw two cards whenever Cloud deals combat damage to a player
Playing with a mainboard answer to multiple graveyard strategies gives a lot of flexibility and edges when navigating through the matchups
Brainstorm Ponder Expressive Iteration Fevered Visions Jori En, Ruin Diver Rielle, the Everwise Firemind's Research Yusri, Fortune's Flame Jhoira, Weatherlight Captian Kraum, Ludevic's Opus Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind The Royal Scions Ral, Izzet Viceroy Squee's Revenge Aegar, the Freezing Flame Rhystic Study Counterspells with a hint of Redirection It's not blue without a counterspell or two
You could still win with storm using Crackling Spellslinger or Ignite Memories, but those werent in their list
Misthollow Griffin was the first creature that you can cast from exile