Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Deeproot Waters

Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Tishana, Voice of Thunder

Tishana, Voice of Thunder's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
When Tishana enters, draw a card for each creature you control.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Deeproot Champion

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Deeproot Champion.

Kumena's Speaker

Kumena's Speaker gets +1/+1 as long as you control another Merfolk or an Island.

Island

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Deeproot Elite

Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Merfolk you control.

Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca

Tap another untapped Merfolk you control: Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca can't be blocked this turn.
Tap three untapped Merfolk you control: Draw a card.
Tap five untapped Merfolk you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Merfolk you control.

Kopala, Warden of Waves

Spells your opponents cast that target a Merfolk you control cost {2} more to cast.
Abilities your opponents activate that target a Merfolk you control cost {2} more to activate.

Stonybrook Banneret

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Merfolk spells and Wizard spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Novijen, Heart of Progress

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered this turn.

Tempest Caller

When Tempest Caller enters, tap all creatures target opponent controls.

Coralhelm Commander

Level up {1} ({1}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-3
3/3
Flying
LEVEL 4+
4/4
Flying
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Merfolk Looter

Counterspell

Sol Ring

Negate

Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on Simic Ascendancy.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Simic Ascendancy has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Quest for Renewal

Whenever a creature you control becomes tapped, you may put a quest counter on Quest for Renewal.
As long as there are four or more quest counters on Quest for Renewal, untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Benthic Biomancer

{1}{U}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Benthic Biomancer, draw a card, then discard a card.

Forerunner of the Heralds

When Forerunner of the Heralds enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Forerunner of the Heralds.

Herald of Secret Streams

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

Silvergill Adept

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Merfolk card from your hand or pay {3}.
When Silvergill Adept enters, draw a card.

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Lullmage Mentor

Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.
Tap seven untapped Merfolk you control: Counter target spell.

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast Harbinger of the Tides as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
When Harbinger of the Tides enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Harvest Season

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of tapped creatures you control, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Forest

Merfolk Spy

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Merfolk Spy deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals a card at random from their hand.

Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Merrow Harbinger

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When Merrow Harbinger enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

River Sneak

River Sneak can't be blocked.
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, River Sneak gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Aquitect's Will

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

Merfolk Trickster

Flash
When Merfolk Trickster enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. It loses all abilities until end of turn.

Merfolk Wayfinder

Flying
When Merfolk Wayfinder enters, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all Island cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Merrow Commerce

At the beginning of your end step, untap all Merfolk you control.

Merfolk Mistbinder

Vineshaper Mystic

When Vineshaper Mystic enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target Merfolk you control.

Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Mist-Cloaked Herald

Jade Bearer

When Jade Bearer enters, put a +1/+1 counter on another target Merfolk you control.

Merfolk Sovereign

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
{T}: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.

Familiar's Ruse

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.

Cold-Eyed Selkie

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Cold-Eyed Selkie deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

Zegana, Utopian Speaker

When Zegana, Utopian Speaker enters, if you control another creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card.
{4}{G}{U}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Merfolk Skydiver

Flying
When Merfolk Skydiver enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{3}{G}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Plasm Capture

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next first main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is that spell's mana value.

Aquatic Incursion

When Aquatic Incursion enters, create two 1/1 blue Merfolk creature tokens with hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
{3}{U}: Target Merfolk can't be blocked this turn.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Wake Thrasher

Whenever a permanent you control becomes untapped, Wake Thrasher gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Naturalize

Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Seafloor Oracle

Whenever a Merfolk you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Kodama's Reach

Jungleborn Pioneer

When Jungleborn Pioneer enters, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Merfolk Branchwalker

When Merfolk Branchwalker enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Simic Signet

Kiora's Follower

Mistcaller

Sacrifice Mistcaller: Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Swift Warden

Flash
When Swift Warden enters, target Merfolk you control gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Merrow Reejerey

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)