Deaths Shadow is somewhat unintuitive as a sideboard card but plays the same way against the Burn decks, and better in most cases
Even in the equipment deck, you sometimes wont be able to enable Giott and itll just sit there doing not much of relevance
This sets Ralph up to gain anywhere between three and five lore counters each turn you choose to quest with him
If you decide to cast this spell on your turn, you can build your board state without counterspells interfering
As part of a heavy Merfolk plan, however, its at least something
Now white players get to join in the fun and ask, along with every person casting Rhystic Study, do you pay the one? Im not one to gush over Simic commanders, but that was before I saw Grolnok, the Omnivore