Throwing away a couple of tokens to strip your opponents of their hands puts you in a great spot in terms of card advantage, doubly so with discard payoffs like Tergrid, God of Fright and Waste Not
Deck 1 had 240 cards (89 lands-6 plains, 22 island, and 33 swamp and the rest were dual lands, 40 creatures, and 111 other spells)
Since Gavel of the Righteous only cares about the number of counters on it, not what type of counters they are, well almost always be correct to proliferate every type of counter we can on it
Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni reanimates things from other players graveyards while Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion steals their cards
Any party can be made up of a cleric, rogue, warrior and wizard