Win Conditions And Flaws The primary win condition of the deck is winning through mill
And the Strahl is their ship, and we wanted to get the Strahl somewhere in the set
Merfolk A Merfolk enters the battlefield under your control
Unless I am missing something, this effect is a little lame unless you have some effect that benefits from it, and I have not come across it yet in these cards (something like 'whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 1 life')
While youre at it, use Koth of the Hammer and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle so each of those mountains can become direct damage
I think you should go ahead and snap up the Phyrexian foil now, or in the next 1-2 weeks, before the price shoots back up