This was great, lots of good information! As for removing cards from your deck, there are three options:
1. The Cake Bauble deletes Queens from your deck that you use in hands, and gives you a Zodiac for the hand played.
2. The Snurf Blaster, an uncommon Bauble, gives you the ability to destroy a single card at the cost of using one of your "hands until fatigue". Just play the single card and it'll get blasted with a satisfying "Thump" sound :)
3. The Bomb non-standard card. You can play this alongside other cards that you want to be destroyed. You'll still get a score for the hand you play too!