If Aftermath Analyst and Zuran Orb are in play, for example, you can kill your opponents on the stack
No matter which direction you go in with your deck, if these creatures are at the lead youll be in for a good time
Blue Drawing cards, casting instants and sorceries, scrying, and comboing into an Omniscience to play your entire hand for free are just par for the course in blue
Having a lot of lands in play allows a control deck to play a planeswalker and a counterspell in the same turn, or a board wipe and a counterspell in the same turn
and Throw Team-Mate, which is a re-skin of Fling, a perfect match for the cards and a funny gotcha! for opponents
However, Valakut decks are also at higher risk of doing nothing than Tron