Strength is found in numbers, so stock your toy chest with as many whacky creatures as you can find
Spiteful Banditry deserves special mention for being a board sweeper that also generators Treasure tokens, and don't forget about Oblivion Stone and Nevinyrral's Disk, both of which can be searched out using Iron Man's ability (eventually at the cost of Iron Man's life, but can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs)
Some fantastic Fire Pokemon Energy Types include Victini V and Centiskorch V to constantly recycle Fire Energy
You can also spend four, tap it, and Zombify a dork with haste from your graveyard and then exile it, and we don't have much recursion other than Volrath's Stronghold, so don't worry about the self-exiling much, when it's good, do it
I think the two announcements are hard to separate, and both speak to the direction of the corporate entity that is Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro