You cant cheat out expensive cards, but Gandalf adds some super-charged Panharmonicon action to your deck and at minimum gives your commander flash
Sure, its not legal in most sanctioned Magic , but thats missing the point
Ponder / Preordain While the easiest explanation for Ponder and Preordain being on the Modern banned list is that they made Storm too good, and while it's true that Storm was near the top of the format when they were unbanned, in no small part thanks to the power of the one-mana cantrips, the better explanation is that they are simply too good and were keeping Modern from developing its own identity as a format
Massacre Girl, Known Killer and Syr Konrad, the Grim can abuse all this death to draw cards and obliterate life totals
Shardless Agent is a bit too expensive for the deck, but Bloodbraid Marauder fills this role just fine