Jungleborn Pioneer

Two bodies for one card, split into a piece your opponent can remove and one they can never point a spell at. The quiet inversion worth noticing is which body carries the protection: the 2/2 that triggered the ability is fully exposed, while the 1/1 it leaves behind sits outside the reach of targeted removal. That flips the usual shape of value creatures, where the body you paid for is the one you want to keep alive. Here the disposable token is the one your opponent's kill spell can't touch. What hexproof actually buys is worth stating precisely: it stops targeted interaction, not everything. A sweeper still takes both Merfolk, since board wipes generally don't target. So the token's durability is narrow but real, a floor against the point-and-shoot removal that clears aggressive boards one creature at a time. For go-wide Merfolk builds that count bodies and lean on lords, that floor is the point: opponents can trade with the Pioneer, but the second Merfolk lingers as a lord-boosted attacker, a sacrifice-fodder body that can't be picked off before you spend it, or simply another creature on the count. As a tribal common it does plain, honest work: two on-type bodies stapled together, with the more resilient one being the one you were happy to lose.