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I think for a while, Control decks had a rough time in Standard due to the fact that so many Midrange creature decks could out two-for-one you
That said, this isnt really a reflection of a larger evolution of the archetype, since my list was built in an atypical way
There definitely are times where you have to fade a one-land, one-spell recovery from your opponent, usually Deaths Shadow or Gurmag Angler, but as I mentioned, this deck is reasonably good at setting up its own recovery from a Restore Balance land sweep to compete
Remember that while adding the lore counters doesn't use the stack, the chapter ability does, so it can be responded to
The attack by itself does just ten damage but it quickly puts up massive amounts of damage by adding 30 damage to the attack for each energy attached to Blissey V