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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.
Legendary Creature - Scout Merfolk
Hakbal of the Surging Soul (lcc) 123

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Anthem

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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 - Merfolk
Master of the Pearl Trident (lcc) 162
Merfolk Sovereign
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Merfolk Noble
Merfolk Sovereign (lcc) 164

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Copy

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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 - Merfolk Spirit
Deepfathom Echo (lci) 228
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 (tdc) 164

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Counters

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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 (pip) 195
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 (ktk) 133
Loading Zone
If one or more counters would be put on a creature, Spacecraft, or Planet you control, twice that many of each of those kinds of counters are put on it instead.
Warp
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this enchantment at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Enchantment
Loading Zone (eoe) 196
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 - Shapeshifter
Metallic Mimic (lcc) 308
Vorel of the Hull Clade
,
: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.
Legendary Creature - Human Merfolk
Vorel of the Hull Clade (lcc) 294
Wildgrowth Walker
Whenever a creature you control explores, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 3 life.
Creature - Elemental
Wildgrowth Walker (xln) 216

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Draw

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Bident of Thassa
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
,
: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (lcc) 146
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 - Merfolk Rogue
Cold-Eyed Selkie (lcc) 266
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
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.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca (lcc) 274
Meltstrider Eulogist
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.
Creature - Soldier Insect
Meltstrider Eulogist (eoe) 197
Sage of Fables
Each other Wizard creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Sage of Fables (lcc) 169
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
. (Whenever another Merfolk you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Legendary Creature - Merfolk God
Svyelun of Sea and Sky (lcc) 175
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Druid Merfolk
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (lcc) 290
Terrasymbiosis
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, you may draw that many cards. Do this only once each turn.
Enchantment
Terrasymbiosis (eoe) 312
Urban Evolution
Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.
Sorcery
Urban Evolution (ncc) 355
Wizard Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchantment - Class
Wizard Class (blc) 112

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Evasion

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Deepchannel Mentor
Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Deepchannel Mentor (plst) SHM-35
Herald of Secret Streams
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Herald of Secret Streams (plst) XLN-59
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 - Scout Merfolk
Merfolk Cave-Diver (lci) 65
Streambed Aquitects
: Target Merfolk creature gets +1/+1 and gains islandwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Streambed Aquitects (lrw) 91
Thassa, God of the Sea
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Thassa, God of the Sea (lcc) 176

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Finisher/Wincon

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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
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 - Horror
Murkfiend Liege (c13) 231
Simic Ascendancy
: 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
Stormtide Leviathan
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.
Creature - Leviathan
Stormtide Leviathan (cmr) 407
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
Whenever Xolatoyac enters or attacks, 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.
At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Salamander Serpent
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood (lcc) 8

Finisher/Wincon

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Instant

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Biosynthic Burst
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains reach, trample, and indestructible until end of turn. Untap it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Biosynthic Burst (eoe) 173

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Land

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Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (tdc) 358
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Flooded Grove
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Flooded Grove (m3c) 342
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (blb) 378
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (dsc) 284
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tdm) 279
Karn's Bastion
: Add
.
,
: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Land
Karn's Bastion (pwar) 248p
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.
: Add
.
,
: 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.
: Add
.
,
, 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 (cmm) 421
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
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 - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (mkc) 277
Novijen, Heart of Progress
: Add
.
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered this turn.
Land
Novijen, Heart of Progress (dis) 175
Overflowing Basin
,
: Add
.
Land
Overflowing Basin (fic) 410
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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 (blc) 322
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
Secluded Courtyard
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: 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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Mystery (blc) 342
Unclaimed Territory
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: 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.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (m3c) 405

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Protection

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Frenzied Baloth
This spell can't be countered.
Trample, haste
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Combat damage can't be prevented.
Creature - Beast
Frenzied Baloth (eoe) 183
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 (pip) 203
Kopala, Warden of Waves
Spells your opponents cast that target a Merfolk you control cost
more to cast.
Abilities your opponents activate that target a Merfolk you control cost
more to activate.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Kopala, Warden of Waves (lcc) 160
Mutational Advantage
Permanents you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to those permanents this turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Instant
Mutational Advantage (pip) 111
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 - Merfolk Shaman
Singer of Swift Rivers (lcc) 98
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (pip) 242

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (scd) 257
Commander's Sphere
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
Elven Chorus
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
Creatures you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
Enchantment
Elven Chorus (ltr) 160
Herald's Horn
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
Artifact
Herald's Horn (c17) 53
Kiora's Follower
: Untap another target permanent.
Creature - Merfolk
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
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.
Legendary Creature - Scout Merfolk
Nicanzil, Current Conductor (lci) 236
Patchwork Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (pip) 239
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
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Stonybrook Banneret (lcc) 173
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (who) 255

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Recursion

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Auroral Procession
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Auroral Procession (tdm) 169

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Removal

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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
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 (tdc) 149
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 - Wizard Merfolk
Lullmage Mentor (zen) 54
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (bbd) 123
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 (tdc) 163
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
Rootwater Thief
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may pay
. If you do, search that player's library for a card and exile it, then the player shuffles.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Rootwater Thief (nem) 40
Seedship Impact
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If its mana value was 2 or less, create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")
Instant
Seedship Impact (eoe) 205
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 - Wizard Merfolk
Tishana's Tidebinder (lci) 81
Wave Goodbye
Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.
Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (lcc) 79

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Tutor

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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 - Scout Merfolk
Forerunner of the Heralds (rix) 129
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 - Wizard Merfolk
Merrow Harbinger (plst) LRW-73
Seahunter
,
: Search your library for a Merfolk permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Mercenary
Seahunter (nem) 41

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Maybeboard

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Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters (c21) 336
Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (blc) 161
Alandra, Sky Dreamer
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Alandra, Sky Dreamer (mkc) 94
Avenger of Zendikar
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.
Creature - Elemental
Avenger of Zendikar (tdc) 247
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (dsc) 80
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 (dgm) 59
Call to the Kindred
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, you may put a creature card that shares a creature type with enchanted creature from among them onto the battlefield, then you put the rest of those cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
Enchantment - Aura
Call to the Kindred (dka) 30
Case of the Locked Hothouse
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
To solve — You control seven or more lands. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — You may look at the top card of your library any time, and you may play lands and cast creature and enchantment spells from the top of your library.
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Locked Hothouse (mkm) 155
Deeproot Elite
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Merfolk you control.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Deeproot Elite (lcc) 237
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 - Druid Merfolk
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
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 - Scout Merfolk
Deeproot Wayfinder (mom) 369
Descendants' Path
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card that shares a creature type with a creature you control, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you don't cast it, put it on the bottom of your library.
Enchantment
Descendants' Path (lcc) 238
Distant Melody
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Sorcery
Distant Melody (lcc) 154
Druid Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
: Level 2
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
: Level 3
When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.
Enchantment - Class
Druid Class (afr) 180
Elixir of Immortality
,
: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.
Artifact
Elixir of Immortality (c21) 243
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
. If you do, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Noble
Emperor Mihail II (lcc) 155
Empress Galina
,
: Gain control of target legendary permanent. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Noble
Empress Galina (inv) 54
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 - Elf Druid
Evolution Sage (lcc) 240
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (blc) 269
Finale of Revelation
Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.
Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (otc) 97
Floodpits Drowner
Flash
Vigilance
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it.
,
: Shuffle this creature and target creature with a stun counter on it into their owners' libraries.
Creature - Merfolk
Floodpits Drowner (dsk) 59
Forensic Researcher
: Untap another target permanent you control.
, Collect evidence 3: Tap target creature you don't control. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)
Creature - Merfolk Detective
Forensic Researcher (mkm) 58
Glowcap Lantern
Equipped creature has "You may look at the top card of your library any time" and "Whenever this creature attacks, 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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Glowcap Lantern (lci) 187
Harbinger of the Seas
Nonbasic lands are Islands.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63
Harbinger of the Tides
You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay
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 - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Tides (fdn) 593
Jadelight Spelunker
When this creature enters, it explores X times. (To have it 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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Jadelight Spelunker (lci) 196
Kiora, the Crashing Wave
+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target permanent an opponent controls.
−1: Draw a card. You may play an additional land this turn.
−5: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token."
Legendary Planeswalker - Kiora
Kiora, the Crashing Wave (ddo) 34
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.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Noble
Kiora, the Rising Tide (fdn) 45
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 - Merfolk
Lord of Atlantis (cei) 63
Merfolk Mistbinder
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Merfolk Mistbinder (lcc) 276
Merfolk Skydiver
Flying
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Creature - Merfolk Mutant
Merfolk Skydiver (lcc) 277
Merrow Commerce
At the beginning of your end step, untap all Merfolk you control.
Enchantment Kindred - Merfolk
Merrow Commerce (lrw) 72
Merrow Reejerey
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.
Creature - Soldier Merfolk
Merrow Reejerey (lcc) 165
Mindspring Merfolk
Exhaust —
,
: Draw X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on each Merfolk creature you control. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Mindspring Merfolk (dft) 51
Mist Dancer
Flying
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+0 and have flying.
Encore
(
, 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 - Wizard Merfolk
Mist Dancer (lcc) 76
Mossborn Hydra
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - Elemental Hydra
Mossborn Hydra (fdn) 107
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
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 (dsc) 192
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 (blc) 231
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.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Prime Speaker Zegana (lcc) 278
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 (tdc) 162
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 - Shapeshifter
Realmwalker (khm) 188
Reef Shaman
: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Reef Shaman (apc) 29
Riverwise Augur
When this creature enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Riverwise Augur (afc) 93
Salvager of Secrets
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Salvager of Secrets (m19) 70
Saprazzan Heir
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw three cards.
Creature - Merfolk
Saprazzan Heir (mmq) 99
Scale the Heights
Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. You gain 2 life. You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Scale the Heights (j22) 724
Seafloor Oracle
Whenever a Merfolk you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Seafloor Oracle (lcc) 170
Simic Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Simic Signet (mkc) 236
Springheart Nantuko
Bestow

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay
if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.
Creature Enchantment - Monk Insect
Springheart Nantuko (mh3) 171
Stubborn Denial
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.
Instant
Stubborn Denial (ktk) 56
Swift Warden
Flash
When this creature enters, target Merfolk you control gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Swift Warden (rix) 146
Tempest Caller
When this creature enters, tap all creatures target opponent controls.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tempest Caller (plst) XLN-86
Thieving Skydiver
Kicker
. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional
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 - Merfolk Rogue
Thieving Skydiver (lcc) 177
Tidal Courier
When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Merfolk cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Merfolk
Tidal Courier (ddt) 19
Tidal Warrior
: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Tidal Warrior (sth) 47
Tideshaper Mystic
: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn. Activate only during your turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tideshaper Mystic (lrw) 93
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.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Tishana, Voice of Thunder (lcc) 291
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 - Merfolk Shaman
Tributary Instructor (lcc) 96
Twists and Turns
If a creature you control would explore, instead you scry 1, then that creature explores.
When this enchantment enters, target creature you control explores.
When a land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands, transform this enchantment.
Enchantment
Twists and Turns // Mycoid Maze (lci) 217Twists and Turns // Mycoid Maze (lci) 217
Vodalian Hexcatcher
Flash
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Vodalian Hexcatcher (dmu) 75
Voidslime
Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Instant
Voidslime (rvr) 388
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 - Wizard Merfolk
Wanderwine Prophets (lrw) 95
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 - Merfolk Shaman
World Shaper (rix) 151

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