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This isnt a massive difference, but its also not irrelevant given that were devoting several paragraphs to the differences between playing one piece of cardboard over another

It isnt a game that sits still

For two mana, you could get rid of a creature, no questions asked

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Emerge 702.118a Emerge represents two static abilities that function while the spell with emerge is on the stack

So putting a stun counter on a permanent is very similar to tap a permanent and it doesnt untap during the next untap step. They're not exactly the same, but they're trying to achieve the same goal