[Deck] It's the Fear - Control in the new Era

[bowvamp]

First of sorry if i make wrong assumptions, i am not that familiar with the deck.

My question is, why do people like EE more / as much as Deed in the Merfolk matchup?
A Deed for 3 kills everything they have, with EE you can consider yourself lucky if you hit 2 of their guys.
Lord ofAtlantis is a big problem, which is one of the reasons i would follow Muradin's suggestion and play 3 Spell Snare main with two Vedalken Shackles in the board.
They are quite good against them in my opinion. Additionally i suggest 2 Tombstalker as additional meat to block their swarm.
They do work nicely with Deed and give you more time to setup Counterbalance.
I may appear that they dont work well with your recursion theme, but in practice i dont think its a problem (just remove the 'uninteresting' spells).
A drawback is that they make their Relics more potent, but for these Grip could be used (helps also against Vial and B2B).

Thoughts?

Well, I think that the key difference is that it is easier to recur EE. That and it comes out earlier sometimes. And as far as tombstalker goes, it seems like you're just walking straight into a relic. I would run Nihilith over tombstalker against merfolk any day. If they ever get to the point where a merman is big enough to kill it, you've lost anyways!