Strip Mine is here to punish aggressive decks or multi-colored combo decks with vulnerable colors
Sovereigns of Lost Alara Sovereigns of Lost Alara fits into a more specific type of deck than most exalted creatures
Putting it on the bottom of its owner's library isn't very helpful, especially not from the battlefield, but this is one of the many reasons we have Cowardice
Jace comes in with three loyalty, can gain a loyalty to draw a card and discard a card, and can also gain a loyalty to exile a card with a mana value of three or less from your hand to plot it
Using the same example as before, and assuming our deck consists of 99 cards, with a third of them being lands, we get a slightly higher probability of about 63%, which is a step closer to the truth
Once you get to 12 counters, these planets become some of the most powerful lands in the game (Tolarian Academy, Gaea's Cradle)