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Mind Drill Assailant and Mindwhisker are effective on a different axis: creatures that can dump things into your graveyard early that gain powerful effects once you achieve Threshold

We on the RC like to ban cards as exemplars as well

While Orb is one of the most potent pure life gain cards it is frequently also a complete blank

Getting one point of damage per artifact ETB is more efficient than Dragonspark Reactor if your attacks land (not to mention double-strike or other synergies), and the haste opens up some tasty combinations with token generators like Oni-Cult Anvil

For example, if you control The Ozolith ("Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.") when Sin's last ability resolves, you'll put the appropriate number of each kind of counter onto both The Ozolith and the target creature