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You have so many ways to make this work in your brew

Emerald lacks in removal, and now you dont have to keep type-specific removal cards in your deck that are useless in some matchups

Keep your deck protected as you defend the island

When doing this, you strengthen your already strong characters since you're playing Ruby, potentially creating a very scary board state for your opponent to stare down

It's certainly debatable which of the precon commanders is better, but both also play great in the 99s of the other, so don't worry about it too much.

It can shift onto another Gramma Tala for two whole ink less, and it gains more lore whenever you put a card into your inkwell