There are ways to remove counters, move counters, get value for having counters, and spend counters
It's possible it was left out
The codes PlayIkoria and PlayTheros will give you a couple packs from those expansions, and while youre there, enter LevelUp for 2000 free XP
It can eventually become a win condition of sorts, but Sanctum of Stone Fangs and Honden of Infinite Rage do the same thing a lot more efficiently
One loses a lot of creatures and adds more ramp and the remaining colorless loot and bounce cards, however inefficient
Back when I was a teenager looking to pay for dates, I sold the majority of my Pokemon cards (many of which are worth many times more today than what I got out of them at the time)