My go-to combination is a +1/+1 counter and a first strike counter, with a heavy emphasis on obtaining shield counters from another source like Boon of Safety
When you remove time counters from Benalish Commander you create a 1/1 White Soldier creature token, and Fungal Behemoth rewards you by letting you put a +1/+1 counter on target creature
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Any time you add a lore counter to a Saga, youll then trigger the next ability in line, and so on, until you sacrifice it at the end of the third
Anathemancer punishes them severely for this with a deadly early creature and the promise of a much bigger hit later down the lineone that can't profitably be countered and can't be stopped with discard, which will force many control decks to consider alternate means of dealing with the problem such as an Identity Crisis
It is particularly useful against combo turns, sweepers, tutors, and value engines