Endurance is the most castable card of the cycle, which is nice if your opponent stumbles a bit, or you have another piece of interaction, you can easily cast Endurance to save yourself a card
When Wizards of the Coast announced Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, I was initially skeptical
You Find a Cursed Idol card shows a party stumbling upon that same statue, still wreathed in spectral flames
Your win conditions are likely to be either swinging at your opponents with buff Merfolk until their life total hits zero, or you can try to sneakily win using Simic Ascendency , which wins you the game once it hits 20 counters
When you do, this creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control, except it has this ability and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you get that many ." At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay
That being said, and thanks largely to Shimmering Skies, the deck is now better than ever