but if you don't have one, well, the Chain Veil doesn't like that
You can have a giant Syr Ginger just by throwing Blood tokens and Treasure tokens away
Later, a cycle of five artifacts from Legends (the Mana Batteries, like Red Mana Battery) received errata to make clear that the generic counter they use were charge counters
For a full list, as well as more details on rebalancing philosophy and why these cards and changes were selected, see Donald Smith's article
Rather than counter one of the many problem cards such as a haste creature or an equipment that is frequently cast pre-combat you are likely just going to be better off partially negating the spells effect along with the other creatures by using the tap effect and digging for a real answer for everything with the draw option
Other lethal armaments would be Colossus Hammer, Nettlecyst, Argentum Armor, Kaldra Compleat, and Embercleave