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The Temple is the first nonbasic I added, it taps for colorless and then can be returned from your graveyard to play tapped for three mana

Efficient blue draw cards mtg like these keep Blue's grip loaded with options

If you want cards that can signal the presence of a control deck, explicitly defensive stuff like Condemn or Plumeveil is probably fine

Most of the time, good ol' Counterspell gets the job done with less problems

It's any noncreature spell, we're just talking tons of 1/1s, what makes it so big IMO is that it's flexible being soldiers that are also artifacts, so you can use it to trigger a lot of things

It's kind of like Emeria Angel, except for lifegain instead of Land drops, and it spits out much more powerful tokens