Toss in a Candelabra of Tawnos and your opponents might as well concede
That said, if the AI can't just one-shot every enemy at once, they may not pick the targets you would have wanted to take out, and the AI is unreliable with healing/reviving/buffing your units, while you can also forget about the AI using the Math Skill ability to status the enemy instead of nuking them with Holy/Flare
Finally there's a +1/+1 counter theme, putting counters on your creatures and then rewarding you for having counters.We add counters with cards like Together Forever, Retreat to Kazandu, and Elite Scaleguard, then get rewarded for doing so by drawing cards with Armorcraft Judge, protecting our creatures from removal and drawing more cards with Inspiring Call, and giving our creatures flying with Abzan Falconer
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal / Temple of the Dead Listed at: $6 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal is discarding menace where every opponent must discard a card each time you attack, which is easier to do since this bat god files
Charge counters - One of the themes of the block, several artifacts in Darksteel functioned by accumulating these counters, which players could then spend for various effects