You can use this after a boardwipe to mess with your opponents top deck and ensure all they get is their early game creatures they no longer need
It would be very easy to focus a deck like this one around creating tokens and drawing tons of cards, especially because Esper has so much support for tokens already
Deadly Cover-Up provides you with a sweeper as needed against the go wide decks, but also really shines against slower decks to remove their win conditions and important cards
Then for the activated ability, to permanently take a +1/+1 counter, shield counter, or first strike counter from an opponent is simply a steal
Thats right, Serra Ascendant starts off as just a one mana White 1/1, but it gets so much better
Another weirdly-expensive sorcery that feels like you need to be cheating the cost somehow to justify it especially since the biggest appeal would be pinching other peoples artifacts rather than using the token to pressure life totals