Bant Control plays a high density of Islands (up to 8-9 blue sources across their manabase), making Carpet of Flowers a huge mana accelerant that can fuel an explosive Show and Tell or hard-cast threats while denying their long-game plan. Sublime Epiphany is versatile interaction that can counter a Force of Will, bounce a Quantum Riddler, or draw a card in a control mirror where card advantage matters. Spell Pierce and Flusterstorm are cut since Bant Control has ample mana to play around tax effects and access their own Force of Will/Force of Negation to protect key spells, making our one-mana counters less impactful. This is a grindy matchup where resolving Omniscience and protecting it with our remaining countermagic (Force of Will) is the priority.