Seeing Nahiri, Forged in Fury not as a planeswalker but as a 5/4 creature that still stays on the equipment theme is great, and just excellent design in both lore and playspace
Spellslinging is the obvious road to go down here, but you can also clone creatures with flash
1 or 2 [+2], then create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens
When I got home and started sorting, I found that this guy must have opened cases of Invasion or something because there were 40 copies of Aura Shards and 40 copies of Sterling Grove in mint condition stacked in rows amongst the other bulk
Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Pact of Negation are your all-stars that offer free protection in the turns that matter most
If you run out of creatures to smack this against, you start drawing cards