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Tutors and Setup Consistency is key, and youve got no shortage of ways to get what you need

The latter half of the era also saw the TCG's 20th anniversary, so quite a few great reprints were able to return to the Expanded arena with new life the very best sets of the XY collection are worth picking up if you're looking for strong cards and beautiful art

Curse of Unbinding Curse of Unbinding is expensive and seems to mostly just annoy your opponent

Relics This set has a ton of great artifacts that you can pick up for cheap

Silverquill Influence (WB): Control the table by manipulating combat and encouraging opponents to attack elsewhere while you generate value and draw cards

Flusterstorm provided the answer blue players were craving, placing a small but sufficient tax on Tendrils, Brain Freeze, and Empty the Warrens