Its definitely worse than either, even with the ability to tap without damaging you, but that just gives budget EDH decks a new tool to improve their mana bases
Still, even this reflects an inflated level of demand compared to where things were earlier in July
Amped Raptor acts as one of the decks enablers and its chief payoff by letting you play a card from the top of your library using energy counters instead of mana
It turns out that being able to copy a spell for every spell cast before it during the turn can do some pretty bonkers stuff
Play your cards right, and this attack can generate some serious firepower
you play in your deck defines the lowest bracket number it could fall into, and currently deckbuilding sites like Moxfield and Archidekt are assigning that bracket to decklists entered there by default, but its up to you, the player, to determine if the deck belongs in a higher numbered bracket