Token strategies are also common and Plague Engineer can shut down a lot of the smaller token creatures (unless you are running Divine Visitation)
Unlike the shiny, brutal world of most Rakdos cards, Avon gives us a Rakdos Carnarium that looks shabby, empty, and sad, almost anticipating the weird vibes of Art the Clown in Terrifier
We get access to three Game Changers in this list, and I've chosen Worldly TutorWorldly Tutor, Crop RotationCrop Rotation, and Ancient TombAncient Tomb
You can go wide with loads of dorks (even forcing mass removal is less issue as that will also remove the pesky Merfolk), you can go round with various forms of evasion or you can just plow right through it
Discard a Pokemon Tool and a Special Energy from that Pokemon
Because Basils ability triggers whenever a cards is added to the Inkwell, you can pull of the whole Prince John/Basil/Discard/Draw effect by having this card in play alone (assuming you have characters in your discard)