Long-Term Plans

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

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.)

Plains

Moonshaker Cavalry

Flying
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Mistcaller

Sacrifice this creature: Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Verity Circle

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker, you may draw a card.
{4}{U}: Tap target creature without flying.

Flowering of the White Tree

Legendary creatures you control get +2/+1 and have ward {1}.
Nonlegendary creatures you control get +1/+1.

Sygg, River Guide

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
{1}{W}: Target Merfolk you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Palliation Accord

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, put a palliation counter on this enchantment.
Remove a palliation counter from this enchantment: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Vodalian Hexcatcher

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

Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Shaper Apprentice

This creature has flying as long as you control another Merfolk.

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.

Surgespanner

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

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.

Deepchannel Mentor

Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.

Island

Merfolk Trickster

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

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.

Skycloud Expanse

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.

High Tide

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

Merrow Reejerey

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

Summon the School

Create two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens.
Tap four untapped Merfolk you control: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Wake Thrasher

Whenever a permanent you control becomes untapped, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Vodalian Wave-Knight

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Merfolk and/or Knight you control.

Stonybrook Schoolmaster

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature token.

Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Icewrought Sentry

Vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {1}{U}. When you do, tap target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls, this creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Decanter of Endless Water

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

River Sneak

This creature can't be blocked.
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sol Ring

Aquatic Incursion

When this enchantment enters, 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.

Cursecatcher

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

Stonybrook Angler

{1}{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

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.)

Counterspell

Sejiri Merfolk

As long as you control a Plains, this creature has first strike and lifelink. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

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.

Distant Melody

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

Monstrosity of the Lake

When Monstrosity of the Lake enters, you may pay {5}. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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.

Veteran of the Depths

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Merfolk Sovereign

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

Sharae of Numbing Depths

When Sharae enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Whenever you tap one or more untapped creatures your opponents control, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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.

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.

Freeze in Place

Tap target creature an opponent controls and put three stun counters on it. Scry 2. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Wanderwine Hub

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

Quicksilver Fountain

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land they control of their choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

Seahunter

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

Ensnare

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Tap all creatures.

Merrow Commerce

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

Merrow Levitator

{T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, you may untap this creature.

Thought Vessel

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

Svyelunite Temple

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Add {U}{U}.

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.

Dawn

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Return all creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Dusk // Dawn

Judge of Currents

Whenever a Merfolk you control becomes tapped, you may gain 1 life.

True-Name Nemesis

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

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}.)

Reef Shaman

{T}: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

Ephara, God of the Polis

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and blue is less than seven, Ephara isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control last turn, draw a card.

Silvergill Douser

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

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Hylda's Crown of Winter

{1}, {T}: Tap target creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate during your turn.
{3}, Sacrifice Hylda's Crown of Winter: Draw a card for each tapped creature your opponents control.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Rishadan Dockhand

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
{1}, {T}: Tap target land.

Master of Waves

Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Tempest Caller

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

Vedalken Aethermage

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.
Wizardcycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Command Tower

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

Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Hylda of the Icy Crown

Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls, you may pay {1}. When you do, choose one —
• Create a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• Scry 2, then draw a card.

Seachrome Coast

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

Arcane Signet

Azorius Signet

Glacial Fortress

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

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.

Opposition

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

Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Plant Tadpoles

Tap X target creatures. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Illithid Harvester

Ceremorphosis — When this creature enters, turn any number of target tapped nontoken creatures face down. They're 2/2 Horror creatures.

Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles

Triton Tactics

Up to two target creatures each get +0/+3 until end of turn. Untap those creatures. At this turn's next end of combat, tap each creature that was blocked by one of those creatures this turn and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Flood Plain

This land enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Rhoda, Geist Avenger

Partner with Timin, Youthful Geist (When this creature enters, target player may put Timin into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Vigilance
Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker, put a +1/+1 counter on Rhoda.

Empress Galina

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

The Watcher in the Water

The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

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.

Crashing Tide

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

Port Town

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

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.

Drowner of Secrets

Tap an untapped Merfolk you control: Target player mills a card.

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Step Through

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.
Wizardcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Filter Out

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

Seafloor Oracle

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

Solitary Sanctuary

When this enchantment enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

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.)