Drawing cards with Terarion, applying some lock down with Tangle Wire and so forth will win plenty of games
Blinkmoth Infusion 14 mana is a lot, sure, but in an affinity deck stuffed with artifacts including treasures this is kind of trivial to cast
Skipping an untap step is about one of the worst things you can do in Magic, and +2/+2 is just such a poor trade off
(2020-06-23) If you counter the first triggered ability or otherwise remove it from the stack, it will just trigger again immediately if Nine Lives still has nine or more incarnation counters on it
In a Mono Blue or Blue-heavy deck, Engulf the Shore is essentially Evacuation for one less mana, a mere four mana for an instant speed creature reset
That is a long long way off a storm deck