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Eight mana is pushing it, but Sauron, Lord of the Rings delivers

A 2/4 with protection from humans for four mana, at the cost of one life, Yawgmoth can sacrifice a creature, putting a -1/-1 counter on target creature and drawing its controller a card

For starters, she needs to attack to activate her main ability

Summon Altanak, the Thrice-Called in Draft Altanak, the Thrice-Called is a powerful creature that normally costs seven mana

See, now this is a Merfolk payoff I like (particularly if our Merfolk deck features Winding Constrictor)

If you want to keep the theme, choose just one of the two, then up the number of target characters