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Wolfkin Bond 4G Enchantment Aura Enchant creature When Wolfkin Bond enters the battlefield, put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield

The free disruption from Disrupting Shoal helps ensure that Merfolk can't race seven evasive points of damage

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

We're so used to how potent and omnipresent the card has been in tournament Magic that the life loss barely registers as a drawback