If another effect modifies how much damage your Lizard, Mouse, Otter, or Raccoon would deal, including preventing some of it, the player being dealt damage or the controller of the permanent being dealt damage chooses an order in which to apply those effects
Naar Isle Plane: Wildfire At the beginning of your upkeep, put a flame counter on Naar Isle, then Naar Isle deals damage to you equal to the number of flame counters on it
All in combo decks are well suited to take advantage of narrow, polar cards and some flavours of cheat in decks are good examples of ones that might want Orcish Lumberjack
Creating a sacrifice engine to go long with Miaras ability can take the form that suits you
Casting it early could give your opponents a full hand of new cards to play, or throw a wrench into whatever play they were planning