Whether you run Nalia or Burakos is up to whether you prioritize the mana generation vs
and I know you can do it with newly-entered creatures, but then you're still missing out on blockers
Especially in todays environment, and with how far power creep has gotten us
A Pantheon or Two of Gods God cards offer a wide variety of different abilities, so you arent sacrificing deck diversity by including a lot of this one creature type
As we can see, there's a keyworded mechanic, Blight, that uses this counter type, and presumably the theme will get plenty of support in this set
Thankfully, being moderately or heavily played actually decreases the chances that you're buying a counterfeit because it's not all that easy to make counterfeit cards look like they are played (and making them look played lowers the value)