Svyelun of Sea and Sky

Svyelun of Sea and Sky 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}.)

Merrow Harbinger

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

Have

Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Counterspell

Apprentice Wizard

Sea's Claim

Enchant land (Target a land as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that land.)
Enchanted land is an Island.

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.)

Chameleon Spirit

As Chameleon Spirit enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Chameleon Spirit's power and toughness are each equal to the number of permanents of the chosen color your opponents control.

Kopala, Warden of Waves

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

Merfolk Skyscout

Flying
Whenever Merfolk Skyscout attacks or blocks, untap target permanent.

Sol Ring

Exhaustion

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Island

Merfolk Sovereign

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

Deepchannel Mentor

Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.

Will Kenrith

+2: Until your next turn, up to two target creatures each have base power and toughness 0/3 and lose all abilities.
−2: Target player draws two cards. Until your next turn, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker spells that player casts cost {2} less to cast.
−8: Target player gets an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy."
Partner with Rowan Kenrith
Will Kenrith can be your commander.

Deflection

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Herald of Secret Streams

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

Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Contempt

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature attacks, return it and Contempt to their owners' hands at end of combat.

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Seafloor Oracle

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

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.)

Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

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.

Staff of the Mind Magus

Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Wanderwine Prophets

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

Corrupted Conscience

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Mind Games

Buyback {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Withdraw

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Then return another target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Rootwater Matriarch

{T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as that creature is enchanted.

Thieving Skydiver

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

Crashing Tide

This spell has flash as long as you control a Merfolk.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.

Mana Vapors

Lands target player controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Ertai's Scorn

This spell costs {U} less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn.
Counter target spell.

Sand Squid

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
You may choose not to untap Sand Squid during your untap step.
{T}: Tap target creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Sand Squid remains tapped.

Silvergill Douser

{T}: Target creature gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Merfolk and/or Faeries you control.

Merfolk Trickster

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

Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying.
Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Vedalken Shackles

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

Military Intelligence

Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card.

Phantasmal Terrain

Enchant land
As Phantasmal Terrain enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type.
Enchanted land is the chosen type.

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Vodalian Hexcatcher

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

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.

Streambed Aquitects

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

Kederekt Leviathan

When Kederekt Leviathan enters the battlefield, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Unearth {6}{U} ({6}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Merrow Reejerey

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

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

Tidal Courier

When Tidal Courier enters the battlefield, 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.
{3}{U}: Tidal Courier gains flying until end of turn.

Seahunter

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

Empress Galina

{U}{U}, {T}: Gain control of target legendary permanent. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Heraldic Banner

As Heraldic Banner enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Benthicore

When Benthicore enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens.
Tap two untapped Merfolk you control: Untap Benthicore. It gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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.)

Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Simic Fluxmage

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
{1}{U}, {T}: Move a +1/+1 counter from Simic Fluxmage onto target creature.

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Lord of Atlantis

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

Sunken Field

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}."

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.

Kindred Discovery

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

Distant Melody

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

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.

Merrow Commerce

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

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Merfolk Wayfinder

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

Wonder

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

Thran Turbine

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may add {C}{C}. You can't spend this mana to cast spells.

Relearn

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Aquatic Incursion

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

Drain Power

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

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.

Flow of Ideas

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.