Like in a normal draft, you want to draft intrinsically powerful cards that demand an answer from your opponent and cards that will answer your opponents' cards
Beast Whisperer Unlike Garruk, which wants you to have one big creature in play, [c]Beast Whisperer[/c] encourages you to play many creatures, no matter how big or small
Over time, your faerie army grows while your opponents are kept off balance by goaded creatures
Its great in a deck with +1/+1 counters to spare, but dont rely on its training ability alone to get those counters (speaking towards EDH, at least)
Mysidian Elder Rating: 4/10 These black mage tokens are going to be very valuable in the black/red deck, and Mysidian Elder is a pretty decent way to get one
Lots of the cards we looked at here arent in Modern because theyre either banned like Birthing Pod or simply arent legal like Worldly Tutor