Lean into artifact tokensspecifically Treasure and Robot tokensto enable cheap plays and flashy turns
Gnarltrunk didnt remember having quite that many knotholes
Since Skystrike Officer's activated ability doesn't have a tap symbol in its cost, you can tap creatures that haven't been under your control since your most recent turn began (including Skystrike Officer itself if you'd like) to pay the cost
We have other ways to add +1/+1 counters to our creatures: Shaile, Dean of Radiance adds counters while also easily triggering Breena, Orzhov Advokist gives everyone counters but they can't attack us, Guardian Scalelord puts a counter while acting as recursion, but I especially love Noble Heritage which acts like an even better Advokist if our commander is out
Kids bought packets of random monster cards to build their personalized Pokmon game decks, then jumped into short slap-down-a-card contests at whatever table or Toys R Us Pokmon League collective they might find
Bonehoard Dracosaur is big and has first strike, and it gives you two cards to play each turn, not to mention treasures or extra 3/1 tokens