One of the deck's most important creatures is Wildwood Scourge, a Hydra that can enter play with as many +1/+1 counters as you can afford, then gains an additional +1/+1 counter each time another one of your other creatures gains counters
The ability for a creature to deal damage with its toughness instead of power has a name: backbone
The only weird inclusion is the Orc and Goblin theme -- 15 cards that either make Orcs/Goblins or support them -- but even then most of them serve our main themes (Guttersnipe)
I need to know which cards are valuable, and then quickly extrapolate from a small sample up to the whole collection
Surge Conductor Surge Conductor is a hidden gem for any counters-based artifact deck
While Ponder would certainly see a lot of play if it were unbanned, and powering up Izzet even more does worry me, in a world of Consider and Expressive Iteration, is Ponder really too powerful