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Hakballin 3.0
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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) 19

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Explore & Counters

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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 (pip) 470
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
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

Explore & Counters

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Ramp

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Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (rvr) 133
Burgeoning

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

Enchantment
Burgeoning (cn2) 178
Deeproot Wayfinder

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, surveil 1, then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Deeproot Wayfinder (mom) 369
Exploration

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

Enchantment
Exploration (cns) 164
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
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
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) 306
Sea Scryer

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

Creature
Sea Scryer (plst) MIR-90
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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Card Advantage

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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
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
Defiler of Dreams

Flying As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay. Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Creature
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 393
Invasion of Ikoria

Battle
Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190
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
Kiora, the Rising Tide

When Kiora enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Threshold — Whenever Kiora attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may create Scion of the Deep, a legendary 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

Creature
Kiora, the Rising Tide (fdn) 309
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 (sld) 1412
Merfolk Looter

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

Creature
Merfolk Looter (afc) 86
Seafloor Oracle

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

Creature
Seafloor Oracle (lcc) 170
Silvergill Adept

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

Creature
Silvergill Adept (prix) 53
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 (mh2) 310

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Finisher & Combos

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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
Triumph of the Hordes

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Sorcery
Triumph of the Hordes (plst) NPH-123

Finisher & Combos

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Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (lcc) 233
Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Filter Out

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

Instant
Filter Out (mat) 7
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 (ddt) 7
Masked Vandal

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) When this creature enters, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Creature
Masked Vandal (khm) 184
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
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
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 (cmm) 634
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
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 (znr) 335
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) 335
Waterfront Bouncer

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

Creature
Waterfront Bouncer (mmq) 114

Removal

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Counterspells

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Cursecatcher

Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Creature
Cursecatcher (shm) 34
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
Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Flare of Denial (mh3) 62
Foil

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Foil (plst) UMA-55
Misdirection

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Instant
Misdirection (plst) DDT-15
Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 50
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
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

Counterspells

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Land

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Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (slu) 11Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (slu) 11
Botanical Sanctum

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

Land
Botanical Sanctum (otj) 301
Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Cephalid Coliseum (v12) 3
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Dreamroot Cascade

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

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (dbl) 529
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 (lcc) 328
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (lcc) 329
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (ncc) 402
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lci) 291
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) 288
Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Mutavault (pgpx) 2018
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
Overflowing Basin

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

Land
Overflowing Basin (dsc) 293
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
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
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (j25) 156
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
Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Waterlogged Grove (mh1) 249
Willowrush Verge

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Add {G}. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.

Land
Willowrush Verge (dft) 270
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (otc) 342

Land

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Evasion

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Herald of Secret Streams

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

Creature
Herald of Secret Streams (lcc) 158
Lord of Atlantis

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

Creature
Lord of Atlantis (spg) 1
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 Windrobber

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

Creature
Merfolk Windrobber (znr) 70
Mist-Cloaked Herald

This creature can't be blocked.

Creature
Mist-Cloaked Herald (rix) 43
Tidal Warrior

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

Creature
Tidal Warrior (sth) 47
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
Triton Shorestalker

This creature can't be blocked.

Creature
Triton Shorestalker (otc) 121
Wonder

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

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271

Evasion

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Protection & Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Heroic Intervention

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

Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
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 (cmm) 398
March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 61
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
Road of Return

Choose one — • Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. • Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Entwine {2} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Road of Return (c19) 34

Protection & Recursion

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Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 293
Cavern of Souls

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, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 345
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) 33
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 (2xm) 339
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 477
Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Creature
Thada Adel, Acquisitor (wwk) 40
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
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 338

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Maybeboard

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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
Aether Vial

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Aether Vial (2x2) 391
Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (lcc) 142
Alpha Authority

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has hexproof and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Enchantment
Alpha Authority (gtc) 114
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (lcc) 299
Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Blessed Respite (mh2) 150
Botanical Sanctum

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

Land
Botanical Sanctum (kld) 244
Broken Bond

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

Sorcery
Broken Bond (j22) 636
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) 57
Caller of Gales

{1}{U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Caller of Gales (plst) CN2-103
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 (otc) 218
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
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) 53
Curiosity

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Curiosity (wot) 17
Danny Pink

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Creatures you control have "Whenever one or more counters are put on this creature for the first time each turn, draw a card."

Creature
Danny Pink (who) 356
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
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
Defense of the Heart

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice this enchantment, search your library for up to two creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Defense of the Heart (wot) 51
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 (ltc) 189
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (dsc) 115
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
Enduring Curiosity

Flash Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Curiosity (dsk) 51
Explore

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

Sorcery
Explore (lcc) 241
Floodpits Drowner

Flash Vigilance When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. {1}{U}, {T}: Shuffle this creature and target creature with a stun counter on it into their owners' libraries.

Creature
Floodpits Drowner (dsk) 59
Foil

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Foil (uma) 55
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
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 632
Gift of the Viper

Put a +1/+1 counter, a reach counter, and a deathtouch counter on target creature. Untap it.

Instant
Gift of the Viper (mh3) 156
Growth Spiral

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

Instant
Growth Spiral (lcc) 270
Hadana's Climb

Enchantment
Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca (plst) RIX-158Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca (plst) RIX-158
Harbinger of the Seas

Nonbasic lands are Islands.

Creature
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63
Hullbreacher

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Hullbreacher (cmr) 74
Hydroblast

Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's red. • Destroy target permanent if it's red.

Instant
Hydroblast (ice) 72
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (wot) 21
Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Sorcery
Irenicus's Vile Duplication (clb) 78
Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Instant
Long-Term Plans (plst) SCG-38
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
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
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
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
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
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (scd) 58
Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (ltc) 254
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
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
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 344
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
Roil Cartographer

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}, Pay six {E}: Draw three cards.

Creature
Roil Cartographer (mh3) 67
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
Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Shore Up (dmu) 64
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 Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (rna) 258
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) 66
Smuggler's Surprise

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Mill four cards. You may put up to two creature and/or land cards from among the milled cards into your hand. + {4}{G} — You may put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield. + {1} — Creatures you control with power 4 or greater gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Smuggler's Surprise (otj) 180
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (woc) 110
Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature
Spark Double (rvr) 421
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (xln) 81
Stocking the Pantry

Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, put a supply counter on this enchantment. {2}, Remove a supply counter from this enchantment: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Stocking the Pantry (blb) 194
Sunken Citadel

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color. {T}: Add two mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of land sources.

Land
Sunken Citadel (lci) 285
Suspend

Exile target creature and put two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Suspend (mh2) 68
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
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (cmm) 687
Tempest Harvester

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). {T}, Pay {E}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Tempest Harvester (mh3) 73
The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237
Unnatural Restoration

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Unnatural Restoration (one) 191
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
Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Waterlogged Grove (mh1) 249
Wave Goodbye

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

Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (lcc) 47
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81
Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard. Counter target spell.

Instant
Wizard's Retort (plst) DOM-75
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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{"ops":[{"insert":"This is Fish-Fucker's Fish-Fucking deck. The most consistent Merfolk tribal deck I'm able to create using cards available to me in my budget, due to the precon becoming the arch-nemesis in my pod. Maybe high power, have yet to test. This is the second and possibly final attempt at upgrading the deck, hence 2.0.\n"}]}
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