The deck dumps a huge number of counters on small creatures , often to much more benefit than just a few extra stats
Yuna, Hope of Spira Yuna, Hope of Spira comes to Magic from Final Fantasy and gives you free second chances (and more if you can move the counter) at your enchantments with a finality counter
The power he offers comes slowly and so there is no real way to abuse him and plenty of counter play
Faramir then makes your monarch status even sweeter, creating two 1/1 Human Soldier tokens if youre still the monarch at the start of your end step, on top of drawing an extra card
Danny Pink is also a good draw engine that can work well with the Spider-Man 2099 and Lyla, Holographic Assistant combo, generating a lot of counters from drawing more cards
Then Shadows over Innistrad came around, and the otherwise mediocre, overcosted reanimation enabler finally got a buddy