Once flipped, she supports long games with discard and reanimation tools
Ive been harping on about playing more board wipes for longer than many of you reading this review, Im sure, but Wizards are dropping more and more sweet wipes for Commander that solve the (imaginary, pretend) issue of them being dead late, or a tempo loss to play
The one thing Historic Merfolk is missing at this point is something like Spreading Seas to give the opponent an Island to power up Master of the Pearl Trident's islandwalk ability
One upgrade to a mass removal spell we can do is bring in The Meathook Massacre which combines the mass removal with a relevant aristocrats sacrifice payoff, and a bonus when your opponents creatures die
Gaining 3 life is trivially easy in the right shell
Players may still cast creature spells from graveyards and from exile if an effect allows them to do so