Reaper's Scythe Reaper's Scythe has an interesting design in that the buff stays on the equipment, rather than the creature
Decks that care about manipulating what cards are on top of their library, like Aminatou, the Fateshifter, Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim are running cards like Brainstorm, Vampiric Tutor, and Reclaim to put specific cards on top of their library, which gives you control of when you'll pull off a miracle Devastation Tide
Vampire history in the format goes through some 'waves of plenty' - which are basically specific moments where various useful cards are thrown to the tribe, usually because it's one of the themes of a set or block
Some speculated that the decks themselves would devalue foils, and so the product was cut for other reasons
And then beside discarding you can use stuff like Crucible of Worlds
The fact that Torgal can also tap for any color mana similar to Paradise Druid makes me think it might actually see some amount of play