Dreams of Laguna from Final Fantasy is seeing play in Azorius Control for this reason, and Consult is much, much better than that
Choose your colors (or colortheres nothing wrong with playing a monocolor deck!), then select a good all-around commander that matches those colors
In a 1v1 match it might be more balanced like the Tui and La depict, but at a 4-player commander table, it's usually quite worth it for you to pay the cumulative upkeep for a couple of turns
Finally, Squirreled Away also does a great job of spreading the card types out so a new player can understand how each one works
When Richard Garfield introduced typal effects in Limited Edition (Alpha) , they affected all the creatures on the battlefield
Mirage and Visions introduced the first white/black cards (that werent also blue), but Circle of Despair, Purgatory (the first WB card to involve paying life), and Righteous War didnt introduce a consistent theme to the color pair