Spiteful Banditry deserves special mention for being a board sweeper that also generators Treasure tokens, and don't forget about Oblivion Stone and Nevinyrral's Disk, both of which can be searched out using Iron Man's ability (eventually at the cost of Iron Man's life, but can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs)
You can also spend four, tap it, and Zombify a dork with haste from your graveyard and then exile it, and we don't have much recursion other than Volrath's Stronghold, so don't worry about the self-exiling much, when it's good, do it
Most of these cards can be found in the Charizard booster pack and the other supporting cards can be found from the Mewtwo pack This Charizard EX deck consists of: Moltres EX x2 Charmander x2 Charmeleon x2 Charizard EX x2 X Speed x2 Sabrina x2 Professors Research x2 Pokeball x2 Potion x2 Giovanni x2 Frosmoth & Wigglytuff EX sleep This sleep deck focuses on Wigglytuff EX and Frosmoth EX to put the opponents Pokemon to sleep
I think the two announcements are hard to separate, and both speak to the direction of the corporate entity that is Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro
Then if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token
In part it was a backlash against Sphinxs Revelation decks
