The same kind of thing can be explored with artifacts like Baton of Courage, Embercleave, and Scale of Chiss-Goria
Whenever one or more creature cards leaves your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature
That way, when the season starts on Jan
Theyre low investment decks that often want you to play less in-demand cards
You cant sacrifice the same Clue both to draw a card and to pay the cost of another ability (like Lonis, Cryptozoologists, which lets you sac clues to steal cards from your opponent)
The Exalted makes it a big step up from Birds of Paradise (although that doesnt stop the Yawgmoth decks from running a playset of each), and its even seen some play in more classic Jund archetypes in the Modern format