and I know you can do it with newly-entered creatures, but then you're still missing out on blockers
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
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)
Three Dog, Galaxy News DJ Drawing cards in Boros feels every bit as good as it does in Black and Red
They don't have tutorials, or even decent descriptions, but they're there to use if you want them
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