Mist Dancer

Merfolk lords have always split into two camps: the cheap ones that flood the board early and the expensive ones that ask you to already have a board. This one lands squarely in the second camp and adds a wrinkle few lords carry, granting evasion. Turning your whole school airborne is the more valuable half of the anthem here; the +1/+0 is incremental, but flying on a wide Merfolk board rewrites how blocks resolve, since a defender who could chump one grounded fish suddenly cannot touch any of them. The Encore clause is where the five-mana body earns a second life. Once it dies, the graveyard activation spins up a token copy pointed at each opponent, and because those copies are themselves the lord, every attacker in the swarm inherits flying for the swing. That is the interaction worth planning around: the recursion is not just a spare body, it is a temporary re-anthem that arrives at a hasted, evasive attack step and then dissolves at end of turn. The cost is steep and the ability is sorcery-speed, so this is a payoff for a deck that has already committed to going wide and can afford to buy a second alpha strike on a later turn. Built for the tribal midrange table rather than the aggressive curve, it wants a board to lift and a graveyard trip to cash in.