Retreat to Kazandu

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• You gain 2 life.

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.

Wildgrowth Walker

Whenever a creature you control explores, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 3 life.

Tatyova, Steward of Tides

Land creatures you control have flying.
Whenever a land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands, up to one target land you control becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.

Duskshell Crawler

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Simic Signet

Waterwind Scout

Flying
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.")

Renata, Called to the Hunt

Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

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.

River's Rebuke

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

Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

Mycoid Maze

(Transforms from Twists and Turns.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{3}{G}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put that card into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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.

Twists and Turns // Mycoid Maze

Woodland Stream

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

Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

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.)

Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.
Draw a card.

River Herald Scout

When this creature 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

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 {2}

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it.
As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Kumena's Speaker

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control another Merfolk or an Island.

Zendikar's Roil

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 2/2 green Elemental creature token.

Eureka Moment

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

Seeker of Sunlight

{2}{G}: This creature explores. Activate only as a sorcery. (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.)

Primal Empathy

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

Sentinel of the Pearl Trident

Flash
When this creature enters, you may exile target historic permanent you control. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Sage of the Falls

Whenever this creature or another non-Human creature you control enters, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Island

Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Explore

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

Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Mist-Cloaked Herald

Forest

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.)

Merfolk Skydiver

Flying
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{3}{G}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Tishana's Wayfinder

Thirsting Roots

Choose one —
• Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

River Sneak

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

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.)

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.

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}.

Simic Cluestone

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Hierophant Bio-Titan

Frenzied Metabolism — As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each counter removed this way.
Vigilance, reach, ward {2}
Titanic — This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Gyre Engineer

Razorfin Abolisher

{1}{U}, {T}: Return target creature with a counter on it to its owner's hand.

Gaea's Gift

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains reach, trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

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.

Simic Keyrune

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{G}{U}: This artifact becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Avatar of the Resolute

Reach, trample
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Grove's Bounty

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Elusive Otter

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it.

Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

Tangled Islet

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

Oran-Rief Hydra

Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. If that land is a Forest, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature instead.

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.

Kiora's Dambreaker

When this creature enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

Growth Spiral

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

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.)

River Herald Guide

Vigilance
When this creature 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Simic Locket

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{G/U}{G/U}{G/U}{G/U}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Korlessa, Scale Singer

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast Dragon spells from the top of your library.

Broken Bond

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

Merfolk Mistbinder

Llanowar Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Ordeal of Nylea

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice this Aura.
When you sacrifice this Aura, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Master Chef

Commander creatures you own have "This creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it" and "Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them."

Joint Exploration

Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.)
Scry 2, then draw a card. If this spell was kicked, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Shaper Apprentice

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

Deeproot Warrior

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Maraleaf Pixie

Simic Charm

Choose one —
• Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
• Permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

{1}, {T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card. If you control eight or more lands, draw two cards instead.