To deliver on a card that would meet fans' colossal expectations, we needed to capture three important parts of Emet's character: He is enigmatically helpful and aids you in getting information to progress through the First
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Three mana for a 1/1 flyer that stuns something is probably already a playable card especially in a format with a Faerie deck and some payoffs for tapping things, so the fact that you also have the option of just playing this on turn one makes this a nice Common One of the downsides with counter magic that gives your opponent the option of paying mana to ignore it is that it gets worse as the game goes longer, but the Faerie upside here helps hedge against that
The other abilities are just solid picks, either letting you blow up an artifact or enchantment, whichever is more problematic for you at the time, or draw a card for each green creature you control