Protect Your Creatures Include cards that protect your board from spells that wipe out all your creatures at once, or help you recover after losing creatures
Deathrite Shaman A little bit of everything Its not a stretch to describe Deathrite Shaman as being a one-mana planeswalker
Simple yet effective, whenever a nontoken creature under your control dies, it's returned to your hand during your end step, while if an opponent's creature dies, it's immediately exiled
Evasion is something that merfolk do really well, so combat damage triggers are another great payoff for merfolk decks
This white creature can run away with a game, no matter which format youre looking at, and theres a world where the archetype takes off outside of the memes, which could see this holding good value