If you can combine a free to activate ability and cost reducers, you can generate infinite EtBs with ease
Ironically, the more creatures are saved with rope counters, the more incentive there is to also pay at least until you hit diminishing returns when youre down to tokens or other inconsequential stuff
Upgrade 4/5 I have grouped the next two upgrades as they do similar things
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian I get a little bummed that Tidus, Yuna's Guardian is stuck working with only creatures, but the ability to move counters and proliferate is very good
-3x Tiana - Diligent Waitress +3x Maleficent - Biding Her Time -2x Merlin - Squirrel, -2x Cinderella - Knight in Training +4x Pascal - Rapunzel's Companion -2x Merlin - Crab +2x The Prince - Never Gives Up Last Pieces Lastly, we will finish things off with adding a couple copies of Hercules - Divine Hero as a compliment to our Hercules - Hero in Training
Oracle is the best of the bunch in any deck because playing lands from the top of your library never costs mana, and she lets you play two of them