The deck is roughly half mana, so even if you get Strip Mined repeatedly, you are likely to keep trudging along and drawing more mana sources to play the rest of your hand
Charlotte Katakuri (ST-20) This starter deck is a dream for players who enjoy careful planning
You can load them up with counters, double those counters with things like Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, slap on some equipment like Sword of Fire and Ice, or enchant your unblockable creatures with Eldrazi Conscription and the like
The infect strategy, while not having direct support since Phyrexia: All Will Be One, has still been improved thanks to additional cards that care about counters
Ethan and I had both realized that there was an audience for more complex draft environments
The reason Greaves is so high up this list is nothing to do with anything previously mentioned but that it sits so very well in the heavy artifact ramp decks