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(If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) You may cast Merfolk spells as though they had flash

Join the fray with powerful bending masters, hybrid animals, and lovable allies wielding blades, boomerangs, and the occasional cabbage

The two ways around this are to either be so fast and so dominant that you overwhelm the table before anyone can mount a response an inconsistent strategy at best or you fill your deck with enough protection and recursion that you can survive long enough to exploit an opening

Its a combat trigger, but you kind of only need one turn doing this