You can play a land during this phase if you didnt play one during your first main phase
Lifelink makes it hard for your opponent to race you, and ward 2 is significant enough to mess with removal in the early game
Colorless Banner of Kinship Marcy: A pretty solid Banner effect, which Standard doesn't currently posses
Dont let all kinds of nuances discourage you, fellow Pokemon fans
Yes, you can pay 3 mana to stick a counter back onto Iceberg before you untap, and sure, you can do cute things to reduce costs or repopulate your ice counters with Rimefeather Owl, Zirda, the Dawnwaker, and proliferate triggers
This legendary 6/6 Dinosaur Mutant for can enter with a keyword soup based on the kind of creature cards you discard when casting it