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Im building this deck to prove to my friend that that ther can be competitive re-animator/solarflare stlye deck that's not Esper. the title is most evident that I'm playing green instead of blue. And that has obvious advantages and disadvantages (Counters/"Land ramp"). Now to my question should I play Viridian emassary over Birds of Paradise? It may seen like an obvious choice, but with alot of these decks now have "chump blockers" or Aggro hate that fetching a land would be easy, however some will just take the damage or not attack to keep my land count down. I have also noticed though that birds of paradise is very time sensitive and all of the test hands I have seen so far it is not profitable to play birds turn two. I would like input on this "conundrum" or any other issue that you may find. Thank you.

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