While the Pauper meta has shifted significantly since 2012, the spirit of the format remains: Generate incremental advantage bit by bit with slow and low-powered cards to beat your opponent
If you do, you won't distribute any counters, but you'll still exile it as it resolves, and you'll still be able to cast Picnic Ruiner later

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Whether thats turning one draw spell into multiple cards, or using one copy of Mind Rot to force an opponent to discard two cards, the idea is that youre up on cards over the opponent
Modern is a fun format with tons of viable deck choices