The Emerald/Ruby deck gains its viability due to the Evasive cards featured in both decks, which are significantly harder to take out of play than the average card
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood Oran-Rief, the Vastwood is a strong land for creature-heavy builds, especially if your deck is focused on tokens or +1/+1 counters
While also making Magic the Gathering more accessible for esports by making it free for everyone to test the game and also people to play it on Stream
Where the original gave you a +1/+1 counter when someone cast a noncreature spell, the redacted version forces you to respond to the same situation by spelling the word "weird"
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Its still worth running, of course, but its often playing second fiddle to more robust drain engines, like Bastion of Remembrance