Hard to remove and with the potential to snowball out of control, Esika's Chariot has been one of the key pieces in the arsenal of a resurgent mono-green Standard deck
Here are the most effective ways to play around discard strategies: Draw a bunch of cards consistently, which is unfortunately something that some colors struggle to do (blue card draw and green card draw tend to be the best)
If its a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield. You can even use this on your own stuff if you have faith that the top card of your library is something powerful
In reality, paying to get a card you might not necessarily need sounds like a bummer, man
The artwork for Ivory Guardians show this well with the giant tribal-tattooed giant posing against some nice mountains, but it's a bit hard to tell with Akron Legionnaire
These scaleable creatures can be much stronger than they seem, especially when they have enters-the-battlefield abilities tied to how much mana was spent on X