They have a long history and development going back to the Onslaught MTG set
Given that it costs an extra blue mana and ultimately nets you one less card than Cruise, lots of decks would prefer Cruise if given the option
Radiant Lotus (First-Place Foil) Our first card that isnt a showcase variant but not our first Radiant Lotus
Discard-focused decks usually feel right at home with Emerald cards, since theyre all about tossing your opponents cards into the discard pile or sometimes just rudely shoving them back into their hand
As Ive mentioned previously, you run into a lot of situations where Collar would be a good card to tutor up, but you have a Chalice of the Void with one counter on the battlefield and then you feel sad
These decks tended to struggle against Rakdos Vampires and Amalia Combo, based on data from tournaments held on Melee in 2024, but they all had a positive matchup against Izzet Phoenix