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Forces of the Deep
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Commander

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Hakbal of the Surging Soul

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each Merfolk creature you control 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 the exploring creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.) Whenever Hakbal attacks, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you don't, draw a card.

Creature
Hakbal of the Surging Soul (lcc) 3

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Alternate Commander

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Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca

Tap another untapped Merfolk you control: Kumena 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.

Creature
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca (lcc) 274

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Boardwipe

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Consuming Tide

Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.

Sorcery
Consuming Tide (vow) 357
Devastation Tide

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Devastation Tide (c18) 85
Wave Goodbye

Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.

Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (lcc) 79

Boardwipe

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Creature

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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 this creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Benthic Biomancer (lcc) 145
Deeproot Elite

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

Creature
Deeproot Elite (lcc) 237
Herald of Secret Streams

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

Creature
Herald of Secret Streams (lcc) 158
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (pbng) 150
Master of the Pearl Trident

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

Creature
Master of the Pearl Trident (lcc) 162
Merfolk Sovereign

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

Creature
Merfolk Sovereign (lcc) 164
Merrow Reejerey

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

Creature
Merrow Reejerey (lcc) 165
Metallic Mimic

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Metallic Mimic (lcc) 308
Mist Dancer

Flying Other Merfolk you control get +1/+0 and have flying. Encore {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Mist Dancer (lcc) 76
Nicanzil, Current Conductor

Whenever a creature you control explores a land card, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature you control explores a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on Nicanzil.

Creature
Nicanzil, Current Conductor (lci) 236
Topography Tracker

When this creature enters, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.") If a creature you control would explore, instead it explores, then it explores again.

Creature
Topography Tracker (lcc) 95
Zegana, Utopian Speaker

When Zegana 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.

Creature
Zegana, Utopian Speaker (lcc) 298

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Draw

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Bred for the Hunt

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Bred for the Hunt (40k) 222
Cold-Eyed Selkie

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

Creature
Cold-Eyed Selkie (lcc) 266
Emperor Mihail II

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast Merfolk spells from the top of your library. Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.

Creature
Emperor Mihail II (lcc) 155
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (lcc) 241
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (lcc) 270
Kindred Discovery

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

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (lcc) 159
Realmwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.

Creature
Realmwalker (lcc) 250
Seafloor Oracle

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

Creature
Seafloor Oracle (lcc) 170
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (scd) 211

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Interaction & Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (lcc) 142
Broken Bond

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Broken Bond (j22) 636
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
Filter Out

Return all noncreature, nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Instant
Filter Out (mat) 7
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (dtk) 65
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (lcc) 166
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (woc) 104
Signature Slam

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then each modified creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Instant
Signature Slam (mh3) 168
Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to this creature.

Creature
Thieving Skydiver (lcc) 177
Voidslime

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

Instant
Voidslime (rvr) 237

Interaction & Removal

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Alchemist's Refuge (lcc) 318
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lci) 401
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (lcc) 336
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 395
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
Llanowar Reborn

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Land
Llanowar Reborn (lcc) 341
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (lcc) 342
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (lcc) 343
Path of Ancestry

This land 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.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (lcc) 346
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (lcc) 348
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (lcc) 350
Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (lcc) 357
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (lcc) 359
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (lcc) 366
Vineglimmer Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (lcc) 368
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 382

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Non-merfolk

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Murkfiend Liege

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Murkfiend Liege (cmr) 448
Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, God of the Sea (lcc) 176

Non-merfolk

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Protection

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Diplomatic Immunity

Enchant creature Shroud (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Enchanted creature has shroud.

Enchantment
Diplomatic Immunity (mmq) 75
Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Instant
Inspiring Call (lcc) 244
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.

Creature
Kopala, Warden of Waves (lcc) 160
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 267
Ripples of Potential

Proliferate, then choose any number of permanents you control that had a counter put on them this way. Those permanents phase out. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Instant
Ripples of Potential (lcc) 77
Singer of Swift Rivers

Flash When this creature enters, put a shield counter on another target creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) You may cast Merfolk spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Singer of Swift Rivers (lcc) 98
Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Instant
Stubborn Denial (ktk) 56
Svyelun of Sea and Sky

Svyelun has indestructible as long as you control at least two other Merfolk. Whenever Svyelun attacks, draw a card. Other Merfolk you control have ward {1}. (Whenever another Merfolk you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Creature
Svyelun of Sea and Sky (lcc) 175
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (lcc) 314

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (lcc) 299
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.

Sorcery
Cultivate (c19) 159
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.

Sorcery
Harvest Season (khc) 63
Kodama's Reach

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.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (lcc) 245
Rishkar, Peema Renegade

When Rishkar enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Each creature you control with a counter on it has "{T}: Add {G}."

Creature
Rishkar, Peema Renegade (2x2) 157
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (lcc) 312
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313
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.

Creature
Stonybrook Banneret (lcc) 173

Ramp

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Branching Evolution

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Enchantment
Branching Evolution (lcc) 234
Brawn

Trample As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.

Creature
Brawn (uma) 160
Deepfathom Echo

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature explores. Then you may have it become a copy of another creature you control until end of turn. (To have this creature explore, 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.)

Creature
Deepfathom Echo (lci) 385
Deeproot Pilgrimage

Whenever one or more nontoken Merfolk you control become tapped, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof.

Enchantment
Deeproot Pilgrimage (lci) 52
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.)

Enchantment
Deeproot Waters (lcc) 152
Forerunner of the Heralds

When this creature 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 this creature.

Creature
Forerunner of the Heralds (rix) 129
Gaea's Blessing

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library. Draw a card. When this card is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Sorcery
Gaea's Blessing (dom) 161
Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (lcc) 243
Over the Edge

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Target creature you control explores, then it explores again. (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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)

Sorcery
Over the Edge (lci) 205
True-Name Nemesis

As this creature enters, choose a player. This creature has protection from the chosen player.

Creature
True-Name Nemesis (tsr) 321
Wilderness Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Wilderness Reclamation (rvr) 458
Wildgrowth Walker

Whenever a creature you control explores, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 3 life.

Creature
Wildgrowth Walker (xln) 216
Wonder

Flying As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (c13) 67

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (lcc) 233
Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Enchantment
Beastmaster Ascension (ncc) 283
Bygone Marvels

Descend 8 — When you cast this spell, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, copy this spell twice. You may choose new targets for the copies. Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bygone Marvels.

Sorcery
Bygone Marvels (lcc) 89
Decisive Denial

Choose one — • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Decisive Denial (otp) 42
Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card. Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Ghostly Pilferer (otc) 98
Merfolk Mistbinder

Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Merfolk Mistbinder (lcc) 276
Merfolk Trickster

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

Creature
Merfolk Trickster (dom) 56
Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Opal Palace (nec) 172
Repulsive Mutation

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Instant
Repulsive Mutation (mkm) 227
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 this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Enchantment
Simic Ascendancy (lcc) 288
Simic Charm

Choose one — • Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. • Permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. • Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Simic Charm (gtc) 195
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (lcc) 290
Telepathy

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

Enchantment
Telepathy (9ed) 101
Tishana, Voice of Thunder

Tishana'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.

Creature
Tishana, Voice of Thunder (lcc) 291
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (2x2) 67

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Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Creature
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters (mkc) 198
Burgeoning

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Enchantment
Burgeoning (cn2) 178
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (2xm) 167
Harbinger of the Seas

Nonbasic lands are Islands.

Creature
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63
Oracle of Mul Daya

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library.

Creature
Oracle of Mul Daya (2x2) 154
Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Raise the Palisade (ltc) 23
Thrasios, Triton Hero

{4}: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, draw a card. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Thrasios, Triton Hero (spg) 16
Vodalian Hexcatcher

Flash Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1. Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Creature
Vodalian Hexcatcher (dmu) 75

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Aspect of Mongoose

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Aspect of Mongoose (tsp) 191
Bounty of the Luxa

At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all flood counters from this enchantment. If no counters were removed this way, put a flood counter on this enchantment and draw a card. Otherwise, add {C}{G}{U}.

Enchantment
Bounty of the Luxa (akh) 196
Bow of Nylea

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. {1}{G}, {T}: Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. • You gain 3 life. • Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Artifact Enchantment
Bow of Nylea (plst) THS-153
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (lcc) 147
Confounding Conundrum

When this enchantment enters, draw a card. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Confounding Conundrum (znr) 53
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.

Creature
Coralhelm Commander (lcc) 148
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (lcc) 150
Decisive Denial

Choose one — • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Decisive Denial (stx) 177
Deeproot Historian

Merfolk and Druid cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast cards with retrace from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Creature
Deeproot Historian (lcc) 91
Eureka Moment

Draw two cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Eureka Moment (stx) 184
Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Evolution Sage (lcc) 240
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (akh) 242
Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast this card 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 this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Creature
Harbinger of the Tides (c17) 85
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 395
Journey of Discovery

Choose one — • Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • You may play up to two additional lands this turn. Entwine {2}{G} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Journey of Discovery (mrd) 123
Merfolk Cave-Diver

Whenever a creature you control explores, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Merfolk Cave-Diver (lci) 65
Merfolk Looter

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Merfolk Looter (a25) 65
Merfolk Skydiver

Flying When this creature 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.)

Creature
Merfolk Skydiver (lcc) 277
Migration Path

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Migration Path (ncc) 301
Primal Empathy

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

Enchantment
Primal Empathy (ncc) 348
Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control. When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Prime Speaker Zegana (lcc) 278
Quandrix Command

Choose two — • Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand. • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. • Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Instant
Quandrix Command (lcc) 280
Ravenform

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Ravenform (lcc) 167
Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (lcc) 168
River Herald Scout

When this creature 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.)

Creature
River Herald Scout (lci) 72
Ruinous Intrusion

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the mana value of the permanent exiled this way.

Instant
Ruinous Intrusion (lcc) 255
Sage of Fables

Each other Wizard creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Sage of Fables (lcc) 169
Sandstorm Verge

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Sandstorm Verge (otj) 263
Sentinel of the Nameless City

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Creature
Sentinel of the Nameless City (lci) 211
Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (lcc) 352
Surgespanner

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Surgespanner (lcc) 174
Tempest Caller

When this creature enters, tap all creatures target opponent controls.

Creature
Tempest Caller (xln) 86
Tributary Instructor

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

Creature
Tributary Instructor (lcc) 96
Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Urban Evolution (ncc) 355
Vorel of the Hull Clade

{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.

Creature
Vorel of the Hull Clade (lcc) 294

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Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (cmm) 274
Coastal Breach

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Coastal Breach (c16) 6
Confounding Conundrum

When this enchantment enters, draw a card. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Confounding Conundrum (znr) 53
Deepglow Skate

When this creature enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

Creature
Deepglow Skate (cmm) 844
Distant Melody

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

Sorcery
Distant Melody (lcc) 154
Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may draw a card.

Creature
Edric, Spymaster of Trest (c16) 195
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (ncc) 402
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (moc) 297
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
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.

Creature
Lullmage Mentor (zen) 54
Merrow Harbinger

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

Creature
Merrow Harbinger (lrw) 73
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (mkc) 277
Nature's Will

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, tap all lands that player controls and untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Nature's Will (wot) 57
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire (mom) 198
Power Fist

Equipped creature has trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it." Equip {2}

Artifact
Power Fist (pip) 81
Progenitor's Icon

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: The next spell of the chosen type you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash.

Artifact
Progenitor's Icon (lcc) 100
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (cmm) 115
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221
Tide Shaper

Kicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target land becomes an Island for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. This creature gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.

Creature
Tide Shaper (mh2) 72
Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Instant
Wash Away (vow) 87

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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.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
Deepchannel Mentor

Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.

Creature
Deepchannel Mentor (shm) 35
Dreamroot Cascade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (vow) 262
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Merrow Commerce

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

Enchantment Kindred
Merrow Commerce (lrw) 72
Quest for Renewal

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

Enchantment
Quest for Renewal (wwk) 110
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73
Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash When this creature enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Creature
Tishana's Tidebinder (lci) 81
World Shaper

Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards. When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
World Shaper (ncc) 323

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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.

Sorcery Kindred
Aquitect's Will (ddt) 2
Archmage Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if you drew two or more cards this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has six or more quest counters on it, if you would draw a card, you may instead search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Archmage Ascension (zen) 42
As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on this enchantment. Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
As Foretold (2x2) 38
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.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (lcc) 146
Court of Garenbrig

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, distribute two +1/+1 counters among up to two target creatures. Then if you're the monarch, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Enchantment
Court of Garenbrig (woc) 25
Disallow

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

Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
Double Major

Copy target creature spell you control, except it isn't legendary if the spell is legendary. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Instant
Double Major (stx) 179
Enter the Unknown

Target creature you control 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 the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.) You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Enter the Unknown (rix) 128
Fade Away

For each creature, its controller sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they pay {1}.

Sorcery
Fade Away (exo) 34
Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (znr) 193
Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Mana Leak (2x2) 58
Opposition

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Opposition (dmr) 62
Path of Discovery

Whenever a creature you control 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 the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Path of Discovery (rix) 142
Radstorm

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.) Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Radstorm (pip) 37
Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (woc) 105
Repudiate

Instant
Repudiate // Replicate (rvr) 249
Rishkar, Peema Renegade

When Rishkar enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Each creature you control with a counter on it has "{T}: Add {G}."

Creature
Rishkar, Peema Renegade (2x2) 157
Saw It Coming

Counter target spell. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Saw It Coming (khm) 76
Spell Syphon

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each blue permanent you control.

Instant
Spell Syphon (shm) 52
Stoneforge Masterwork

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it. Equip {2}

Artifact
Stoneforge Masterwork (ogw) 166
Summer Bloom

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Sorcery
Summer Bloom (2x2) 160
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77
Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Tangled Islet (dmu) 258
Thassa's Rebuff

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Instant
Thassa's Rebuff (bng) 54
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (mom) 274
Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Tireless Provisioner (moc) 313
Trade Routes

{1}: Return target land you control to its owner's hand. {1}, Discard a land card: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Trade Routes (9ed) 108
Vitalize

Untap all creatures you control.

Instant
Vitalize (6ed) 265
Wanderwine Prophets

Champion a Merfolk (When this enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another Merfolk you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a Merfolk. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.

Creature
Wanderwine Prophets (lrw) 95
Winged Boots

Equipped creature has flying and ward {4}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Winged Boots (afc) 20

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