The real standout is Aurora, Holding Court, the card taking over Amber decks and allowing some great Princess and Queen options in the early game to help build the Princess deck meta.
As R&D kept needing this basic black common for each Core Set, they eventually settled on the same art and the same alternate art for this card for several years, until the practice of avoiding skeletons in art was lifted in the late 2000s
Entomb Entomb is the definitive way to tutor a card from your library into your graveyard
Is this a sacrilegious break from the MTG color pie
If you do decide to go that route, pirates won't be in short supply as quite a few, including some Captain Hook cards, have been introduced through the Steel ink color
Make some sweet, non-realistic proxies and build a cube, a Legacy deck, a Vintage deck, or a deck for whatever other format you want to play, and have a blast