Every spell or ability targeting your merfolk costs more, which makes it costly to remove merfolk lords like Master of the Pearl Trident or Merrow Reejerey
And with careful timing, the card can be boosted and swing without being blocked, netting you a giant hoard of Treasure to facilitate your most impactful plays
The deck survived and was still playable thanks to Golgari Thug
During this era, I remember running into a powerful affinity deck in Standard at the time with my Mono-White control deck
The Enduring Enchantments Commander Masters Commander Deck set includes 1 ready-to-play White-Black-Green deck of 100 Magic cards (2 Traditional Foil Legendary Creature cards, 98 nonfoil cards), a 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack (contains 2 special treatment cards, with 1 Traditional Foil Common or Uncommon and 1 nonfoil or Traditional Foil Rare or Mythic Rare), 1 foil-etched Display Commander (a thick cardstock copy of the commander card with foil etched into the cards border and art), 10 double-sided tokens, 1 deck box (can hold 100 sleeved cards), 1 Life Wheel, 1 strategy insert, and 1 reference card