Banishing items can help you deal damage or draw cards, plus it can be used to reduce the cost or increase the challenge strength of your most important cards
Additionally, there are some cards that may be strong enough to sway players to choose a certain ink type when constructing their deck
you can play cards from the top of your deck with Falco Spara, PactweaverFalco Spara, Pactweaver, draw cards from The SwarmlordThe Swarmlord, make huge Hydras with Zaxara, the ExemplaryZaxara, the Exemplary, or dea damage with Shalai and HallarShalai and Hallar
Though most of their abilities can also be very effective on their own , such as Julieta Madrigal, who can not only heal your characters, but allows you to draw cards if you do use her ability to do that