Its found in black, white, and blue, with a few spare creatures in green and red that can block creatures with shadow
With some self-mill or discard effects its easy to get a powerful creature like a Butcher of Malakir into your graveyard and then reanimate it with Meren significantly earlier than you would be able to hard cast it
Overall, the deck is consistent, gets the plan going right out of the gate, and can survive being interacted with
It would be like making Jean Grey's clone Madelyne Pryor a Goblin simply because her alias is Goblin Queen
Manipulation in Magic terms focuses mostly on one's deck and one's permanents
On the card, she's standing in the ocean looking down at a pirate ship on the shore, and the fleeing pirates on the cliff near it