The control aspect comes from its first ability, opponents creatures enter the battlefield tapped
Logic Knot then went into the file

Metagame Breakdown 171 Blue-Eyes (155 Blue-Eyes, 13 Ritual Blue-Eyes, 1 Fusion Blue-Eyes, 1 Speedroid Blue-Eyes) 103 Burning Abyss (82 Speedroid Phantom Knights Burning Abyss, 9 Speedroid Burning Abyss, 9 Ritual Burning Abyss, 1 Blue-Eyes Burning Abyss, 1 Nekroz Burning Abyss, 1 Shaddoll Burning Abyss) 89 Metalfoes (88 Metalfoes, 1 Amorphage Metalfoes) 62 D/D (61 D/D, 1 Shaddoll D/D) 24 Monarch (8 Brilliant Monarch, 7 Monarch, 4 Artifact Monarch, 3 Speedroid Monarch, 1 Domain Monarch, 1 Super Quant Monarch) 18 Majespecter (6 Majespecter, 5 Igknight Odd-Eyes Majespecter, 3 Odd-Eyes Majespecter, 2 Magician Odd-Eyes Majespecter, 1 Performapal Odd-Eyes Majespecter, 1 Speedroid Majespecter) 15 Dracoslayer (9 Performapal Odd-Eyes Dracoslayer, 3 Performapal Igknight Dracoslayer, 2 D/D Performapal Dracoslayer, 1 D/D Igknight Dracoslayer) 13 Qliphort 10 HERO 10 Nekroz (9 Nekroz, 1 Shaddoll Nekroz) 5 Dark Magician 5 DARK Synchro 5 Infernoid 4 Atlantean Mermail (3 Atlantean Mermail, 1 HERO Atlantean Mermail) 4 Evilswarm 4 Performapal Odd-Eyes Magician 3 Meta Beat 1 ABC 1 Blackwing 1 Buster Blader 1 Cubic 1 Deskbot Shaddoll 1 Junk Doppel 1 Performapal 1 PSY-Frame 1 Ritual Beast 1 Train Shaddoll 1 Shiranui 1 Six Samurai 1 Speedroid 1 Speedroid Phantom Knights Blue-Eyes Blue-Eyes was well positioned in the OCG 2016.04 format, having various tools in the deck that could deal with the other top decks, while putting out huge Dragons on the field

A brilliant change to recent elite trainer boxes is dice with damage values instead of the classic dots, it just makes life easier when keeping track of damage in-game -- and it's also nice to see proper plastic damage counters instead of the pop-out cardboard ones
Features the Phantasm Spiral Dragon archetype