The tokens that Deeproot Waters creates possess hexproof, making them much harder for you opponents to deal with, especially if you were to buff these tokens with the abilities of your other merfolk
In decks with many creatures you may want to run at least 1 board protection card with more ( 2-3 ) to be recommended unless you can have other ways to recover your board like mass recursion
Combat focussed archetypes are relatively few and far between, but hopefully this reprint allows them to be built that bit easier
That means you mana starve people, bounce their expensive permanents, or get a second-round of your best ETB effects
While I highly doubt I will ever have Bidding in my drafting cube ever again it feels like it is one of the most significant cards outside of the drafting cube when it comes to considering the context and strength of other cards
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