If you like your friends and want them to keep playing with you, and like the limitless creativity that has kept so many of us so deep in MTG for so long, don't force everyone to play with the same ten cards by using Shadow
However, in most competitive Merfolk decks (especially Modern), cards like **Aether Vial**, **Collected Company**, or traditional Merfolk lords (e.g., **Lord of Atlantis**, **Master of the Pearl Trident**) are significantly stronger and more immediate in impact
When this artifact enters, draw a card
A lot of decks will instantly fold to this in play
Five of them (Arena,Giant Badger,Mana Crypt, Sewers of Estark, and Windseeker Centaur) were promotional cards that could be attained by sending in forms found inside early Magic novels
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned is a pretty nuts card, and it should be as a Mythic Rare Legendary - not only does this card turn all of your instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard into spells that can be cast again, but none of your spells can be countered - so not only can you continue to counter and blast at your opponents, but they can't counter you, PLUS you get to hit them with that Counterspell a SECOND TIME AROUND, for extra aggravation
