While not always better than Path, or even something simple like an Edict, Swords is by far and away the most playable and effective removal spell on average.
Irma Part-Time Mutant is one of the best, most mana-efficient clones ever printed, while Continue
Umbreon has the following attacks: Dark Binding - 40 damageIf the Defending Pokmon is a Basic Pokmon, it can't attack during your opponent's next turn
For more details, see resources on Forbes and Wall Street Journal
This is more deterministic than if you were to just Pal Pad in one or both of those cards, as we want to draw them right on time without ceding ground to our opponent
Toss in a Mirkwood Bats or Mayhem Devil, and you've got a powerful engine to drain your opponents into oblivion