The Guildmage also works well with Jace, Memory Adept: 10 life down the drain for three mana
Leaf can help you retreat one of these key Pokmon , while Cyrus can switch out a particularly powerful card your opponent has chosen for one you have already damaged
This huge flyer always generates value on ETB and attack, and if your opponent can't deal with it, it's going to quickly kill them while giving you tons of cards
Ob Nixilis is your most prominent landfall piece, but black has a few other payoffs
With Ezuris ability being powerful but incredibly limited (once per turn, requiring a creature and decent set-up), I feel like this reasonably qualifies for best execution of experience counters
If The Pokemon Company did all this on purpose, then there are many good reasons for them to do it