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
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
Also, we can fuel the graveyard with things we want to later reanimatebut well have to be tricky and bait some strong noncreature card in that pile as well in order to force the opponent to bin that pile
People look at the overpowered Power Nine, and see cards like Mox Pearl and Sol Ring as clear mistakes
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