If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead
[19] Players begin the game by shuffling their decks and then drawing seven cards
These are powerful enough to win right out of the box, and theyve got some staples you can use as the basis to build your own deck later on
Beyond the obvious reasoning of wanting to mix up the cards so that youre not simply pulling the same ones over and over, there is no one right way to do it
One of the most common is the +1/+1 counter, but counter markers are also used for planeswalker loyalty, to charge abilities, and for specific card qualities
The Commander Decks have revealed a ton of new cards in a similar vein that have great mechanical nods to their respective gamessome of my favorites include Zack Fair in FFVII s, which lets you essentially replicate Cloud swiping Zacks identity after his death, or Champions from Beyond in FFXIV s, a very nifty nod to the MMORPGs party finder mechanic (and one of the coolest moments in its expansion Shadowbringers )