Control Magic

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Inspiration

Seahunter

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a Merfolk permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Hurkyl's Recall

Return all artifacts target player owns to their hand.

Nevinyrral's Disk

Nevinyrral's Disk enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Sapphire Charm

Choose one —
• Target player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
• Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
• Target creature an opponent controls phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Unstable Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Rootwater Diver

{T}, Sacrifice Rootwater Diver: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Counterspell

Waterfront Bouncer

{U}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Tidal Warrior

{T}: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.

Thwart

You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Island

Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Lord of Atlantis

Other Merfolk get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Feedback

Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, Feedback deals 1 damage to that player.

Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Sandbar Merfolk

Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Seal of Removal

Sacrifice Seal of Removal: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Winter Orb

As long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.