Since you have at least twelve copies of each of the three parts of the engine (enablers/dredge cards/payoff), youre more resilient to discard spells and counterspells if they discard one of your enablers, its likely you have another one in hand
You can see the hint of a Deranged Hermit in the Thelonite Hermit, save you are swapping morph for echo
When using the Shift 5 ability, which allows the six-cost card to be played one turn early if a cheaper Merlin can be commandeered for the cause, Merlin gets to make use of another feature called Overdeveloped Brain
When a creature is suspected, it gains the keyword menace, but loses the ability to block
I want to mention that of all Equipments in the deck, Hammer of Nazahn is probably my favourite since it allows all other Equipments to be attached for free
She isn't some spell-based leader of a Izzet guild that adores its instants/sorceries and thus builds them up