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The Tabernacle ties up all your opponent's mana, assuming they have plenty of creatures out, forcing them to choose to either give up a bunch of their creatures in exchange for a spell or to keep as many of their creatures as they can at the expense of spending all their mana

Snapcaster Mage is too powerful to reprint in Standard, Mox Opal is a bizarre inclusion for an innovation product like Battlebond or Conspiracy, and judge promos are in too small a supply to affect prices

While it seems consistent and powerful, the format hasn't really had to tech for Storm recently, which makes me wonder if its popularity will wane once people start playing more Storm hate in their sideboards

Amped Raptor People used to build entire decks around the idea of floating Burning-Tree Emissary into extra copies of itself, and Amped Raptor takes that up a notch

The precon itself already offers some classic options, all of which are good enough to keep around if youre happy with them

With around 48 mono-blue cards that let you surveil and 153 that let you scry, theres no shortage of synergy to explore when building around Matoya