so the idea is to incrementally deal damage to yourself via shakedown, instigator, fenris and desecrate
a nice combo is that you can draw a card with nightshade to bring your life low enough to play the weapon for free.
a nice little synergy we have been exploring is the severin which can be brought back with both knife and cross as well as discarded from the deck with tavrod, I'm not sure if that is too cute at that point as our tavrods have very few hits being 3 other tavrods and 4 swords as a maximum.
we also have the secret passage in our market because you can both smack your opponent through a board stall as well as potentially bringing back star reader whomstve could be brought back by the sac and then play a relic etc.