There are so many +1/+1 counter synergies these days that its incredibly easy to make an oppressively powerful deck with that strategy, and I personally dont like the mental energy required to keep track of all the various triggers those strategies accumulate on the battlefield
He's hanging out with Akroma and Phage, the two characters from the Onslaught story that later merge into Karona, False God
So, you shuffle all the cards back into your library, you draw a new 7, and then you put a number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your library once you decide to keep the hand
Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant + Piru, the Volatile These are expensive and awkward partial/conditional board wipes that are hard to cast
With only two strength, however, she isn't likely to deal serious devastation on the offensive front