Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't gain any abilities or cause creatures to gain new abilities, and the abilities gained won't change even if every creature that normally had the abilities leaves the battlefield
Bouncing a creature is another tactic of Blue since it cant straight up blow up creatures like Red or Black can
You can't wait to cast it later in the turn.
Both events introduce new Manaphy and Snorlax promo cards with other new shop items
Our Esper Control opponents have Mortify, Absorb, and a Negate maindeck, but their trump card is Chromium, the Mutable
The fact that it is vaguely far from the viewer serves to give a sense of slight relief, but only such, as the viewer is probably aware of the speed of a dragon in flight, and the danger that a dragon can certainly pose from afar besides