This is part of a series on core cards for playing Commander, focusing on sort of "generic" cards that fit into a variety of decks, based on color identity, and aren't necessarily tied to a specific game plan, but ought to be at least considered for any deck they can go into
Origin and concept Release date: November 2, 2016 in Germany and August 27, 2016 in France
This has the advantage of brightening the image, and making the foil image more distinct than on a TCG equivalent
Theres amazing continuity through the non-holos as well
Example: A player casts Cytoshape, causing a Kruin Outlaw (the front face of a double-faced card) to become a copy of Elite Vanguard (a 2/1 Human Soldier creature) until the end of turn
Its not exactly an explicitly Merfolk-centric card, but I guess the +1/+1 counter synergizes with some stuff