Many Magic sets support face-down cards nowadays, usually in the combination, so you can mix manifest, morph, and disguise to create an interesting and unique deck
You certainly should be playing things like Be Prepared but as long as your threats or answers a turn later are better than your opponents, you should be dropping haymaker after haymaker while they are scrambling to even USE the extra ink effectively
Plus, you can add in unblockable infrastructure you likely already have in the deck to win
From the cool, purple coloring to counter the vibrant gold, to Hades status as a dastardly villain, the only thing that these two cards seem to have in common besides their 3/4 strength/will power numbers is the fact that both cards oddly enough have something to do with making a deal
The Good Of all the precons, Counter Blitz is the only one where I feel like 99% of the cards feel like they're serving the main goal of the deck and aren't some random stuff thrown in