The biggest feature is probably the card library
This was actually one of the top-finishing decks at the Pro Tour, too if Pedro Carvalho had earned a slightly better Draft record, wed have all learned about the power of this deck a couple of weeks earlier
It's a tradeoff you could be overwhelmed by if you aren't careful
There are a couple of tricky decks with 99 lands and a commander like Child of Alara, but that's another story
There are three decks total, featuring Sapphire/Steel, Ruby/Emerald, and Amber/Amethyst ink combinations, and each deck comes with two foil face cards one rare and the other super rare
If more than one nontoken Merfolk you control becomes tapped at the same time (for example, to pay the cost of Adaptive Gemguard's activated ability), Deeproot Pilgrimage's ability will trigger only once