It has Ward which helps protecting itself and it is a Tribal triggered ability doubler, so it has great synergy with many Merfolks like Nicanzil, Current Conductor and above all, with Hakbal of the Surging Soul since it doubles both the Explore he provides on our Merfolk and his ramp/draw on attack trigger
FromTheShire: Neat but yeah a lot of the time you are going to draw in a way that makes this very awkward I suspect
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Maid Marian works because she throws off the opponent's math
Sapphire and Amethyst has not been a good paring not ever
Grand Arbiter Augustin IVGrand Arbiter Augustin IV - 36,708 decks Augustin IV is a pretty popular commander, especially for a controlling, prison or hate bears-style deck