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I like that style, that flavor, the fact that it's Not controversial: EVERYONE likes it, or at least Don't hate it
And that is how Odric ended up a hair's breadth away from battalion
If it leaves the graveyard before that point, it will stay in whatever zone it's in, even if it's returned to the graveyard before the ability resolves
The other three creatures arent slouches though they provide blue mana, which is infinitely more useful than colorless mana when trying to set up for card filtering, counterspells, and other instants and sorceries that have multiple blue pips in their mana costs
And that's not easy for Emerald to do