For my purposes, library manipulation is something that lets you choose which card to draw out of several cards, usually on top of your library
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Erik had taken the oiled mechanic that Vision Design turned in, which was a means to signify that a creature entered with a certain number of oiled counters, and turned it into a mechanic that matched what vanishing does (remove one counter a turn and sacrifice the permanent when you remove the last counter)
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Proliferating twice is very flexible, so you can go with blue creatures that have +1/+1 counters, planeswalkers, or artifacts with charge counters