Shift allows the four cost card to be deployed for only three ink, Evasive makes him difficult to challenge, and Challenger +3 gives him a boost when he's on the attack
At a cost of only two lore, this action can remove a chosen item or location from the board and place it into an inkwell facedown and exerted
When using the Shift 5 ability, which allows the six-cost card to be played one turn early if a cheaper Merlin can be commandeered for the cause, Merlin gets to make use of another feature called Overdeveloped Brain
1 Archimedes - Electrified Owl 208/204, Amethyst Of all the characters for Arthur to get upstaged by, it had to be Merlin's pet owl, Archimedes
Which is pretty impressive, especially when you consider what a useless, comedic character the Prince is within the story of The Princess and the Frog