The strategy never really found a foothold in Legacy, Extended, Modern, or anywhere else that I could find, with the exception of niche 1998 format Old School
There's a ton of other random types of counters out there, such as charge (Vivid Marsh), experience (Ezuri, Claw of Progress), age (Glacial Chasm), level (Lighthouse Chronologist), and so much more
The thing that pushes this to a level above cards like Impulse for me is that you can put things back into your deck and that is something not many cards in magic allow for, certainly not in such a cheap and painless way as this (except of course Brainstorm...)
With these cards there is no chance of buying a clipped Beta card, as long as you are familiar with what makes them unique
Weird how we people come up with stuff