Not to mention the Fling combos this card enables
Turning from the lore to this specific card, Loot, The Pathfinder is a keyword-stacked commander with Double Strike, Vigilance, and Haste, and also has access to three separate exhaust abilities
Another counter, of sorts was Intervene, which countered a spell that targets a creature
Back for More Yes, its expensive, but Back for More gives you an instant-speed reanimation effect added to a fight effect
It also turns every vehicle you control into a machine that exiles cards from your opponents library and allows you to cast those cards
Host of the Hereafter's last ability puts all counters that were on the creature that died onto the target creature, not just its +1/+1 counters