Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Vodalian Hexcatcher

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

Don't Have

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Subtlety

Flash
Flying
When Subtlety enters the battlefield, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Empress Galina

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

Counterspell

Pongify

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

Polymorphist's Jest

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

Spectral Deluge

Return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Foretell {1}{U}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Force of Will

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

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.)

Silvergill Adept

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

Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

River Herald Scout

When River Herald Scout enters the battlefield, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Tempest Caller

When Tempest Caller enters the battlefield, tap all creatures target opponent controls.

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

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.

Curiosity

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

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.

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sea Gate, Reborn

As Sea Gate, Reborn enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

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.")

Myriad Landscape

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

Harbinger of the Seas

Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast Harbinger of the Tides 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 Harbinger of the Tides enters the battlefield, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Flare of Denial

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

Seafloor Oracle

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

Ensnare

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

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.

Triton Shorestalker

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.

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Eaten by Piranhas

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Rishadan Dockhand

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

Merfolk Trickster

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

Deeproot Pilgrimage

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

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.

Foil

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

Wave Goodbye

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

Tideshaper Mystic

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

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Curse of the Swine

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

High Tide

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

Glasspool Shore

Glasspool Shore enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Glasspool Mimic

You may have Glasspool Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types.

Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore

Spreading Seas

Enchant land
When Spreading Seas enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted land is an Island.

Fellwar Stone

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

Sol Ring

Enclave Cryptologist

Level up {1}{U} ({1}{U}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 1-2
0/1
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
LEVEL 3+
0/1
{T}: Draw a card.

Familiar's Ruse

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.

The Indomitable

Trample
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Crew 3
You may cast The Indomitable from your graveyard as long as you control three or more tapped Pirates and/or Vehicles.

Rootwater Thief

{U}: Rootwater Thief gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever Rootwater Thief deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}. If you do, search that player's library for a card and exile it, then the player shuffles.

Sea Scryer

Arcane Signet

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

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.)

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.

Roaming Throne

Ward {2}
As Roaming Throne enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Roaming Throne 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.

Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Thassa's Oracle

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

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.

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.

Tide Shaper

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

Cursecatcher

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

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.

Mistcaller

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

Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter the battlefield this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature.
Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

The Flood of Mars

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Water Always Wins — Whenever The Flood of Mars attacks, put a flood counter on another target creature or land. If it's a creature, it becomes a copy of The Flood of Mars. If it's a land, it becomes an Island in addition to its other types.

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.

Wash Away

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

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.

Cosi's Trickster

Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Cosi's Trickster.

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.

Fierce Guardianship

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

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.

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.)

Rapid Hybridization

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

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Have

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.

Merrow Reejerey

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

Deepchannel Mentor

Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.

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.)

Thassa's Rebuff

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

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.)

Herald of Secret Streams

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

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.

Lord of Atlantis

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

Winged Boots

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

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Forensic Researcher

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control.
{T}, 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.)

Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash
When Tishana's Tidebinder enters the battlefield, 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 Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Merrow Commerce

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

Agatha's Soul Cauldron

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
{T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Filter Out

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

River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

Titan of Littjara

As Titan of Littjara enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Titan of Littjara is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Whenever Titan of Littjara enters the battlefield or attacks, you may draw a card for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it. If you do, discard a card.

Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters the battlefield, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.