There are ways to remove counters, move counters, get value for having counters, and spend counters
Granted, this leaves the second player to either reuse one of the simpler decks or use another from outside the set
Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can look at the top 3 cards of your opponent's Deck, and if you do, place them on top of their Deck in any order, but you cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except Fairy monsters
Command vampiric zealots and make sacrifices for demonic power with this MTG Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander deck
Watermark: Lorehold Illustrated by Andreas Zafiratos Standard Legal Alchemy Legal Pioneer Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp
It also doesnt have to be the same Pokemon that gets the Energy, so even the Bench benefits from this