Counters like Defabricate and Scatter Ray give Blue some good removal options to keep it in the game Blues also got some decent mana sinks in the set with Air Marshal, and Third Path Savant
The top Fallout card on EDHREC has only half the numbers of the top Bloomburrow card, and thats all due to how we get the cards, the availability due to draft, and all those related factors
Also equip him with a Lizard Blades to give him double strike, or have an Angelic Exaltation to give him another huge buff for each creature you control, and that's lethal Commander damage right then and there
Counterpunch is where it started
It is to Wrath of God what Arbour Elf is to Llanowar Elf
Or sometimes theyre updated for simplicitys sake, like in the case of a Revised Plateau shifting over to the templating of a Masters Edition IV Plateau