At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring
Whether it be one or two mana, what we patently don't want is to pay four mana when we want to be churning through graveyard cards at a discount
This is as opposed to something like poison counters, which at the moment only has around three effective methods of delivery at most
Reduce the cost of things so you can pick up more, whenever you counter anything with Keep Safe or Disrupt/Siren Stormtamer, pick up an extra card
Storm's return to Standard finally came in Bloomburrow on This brings us to Tarkir: Dragonstorm team made this card in set design, I don't believe they were aware that Bloomburrow was beating them to the punch of bringing storm to Standard
Theyre an X Black, Red, and Green 0/0 that enters with +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana youve spent on them