The plagiarism came to light last weekend, when artist Kitt Lapea, who goes by Scarypet online, was told that Magic card Crux of Fate strongly resembled one of their DeviantArt fan art uploads from 2016
Regardless, merfolk of any MTG plane consistently support their creature type, be that as your classic Lord of Atlantis or cards like Silvergill Adept and Deeproot Elite that demand a shoal of merfolk to support them
For example, if you control Fated Firepower with two fire counters on it, attack with a 5/5 creature with trample, and your opponent blocks with a 2/2 creature, you can assign 2 damage to the blocker and 3 damage to the defending player
Well, they made him into a way to play more Spine of Ish Sah, thats for sure
Example 3: Shadowless Chansey with whitening A shadowless card from 1999 exhibits whitening on two corners and slight edge chipping
Between this suit of abilities, Omnath can provide such a massive impact on a game that it's not hard to see the reasoning behind its Standard and Brawl bannings.