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Merfolk Preliminary Draft
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $70.48
Salt sum: 35.37
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Commander

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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.

Creature
Sharae of Numbing Depths (woe) 213

Commander

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Draw

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Concentrate

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Concentrate (plst) E02-9
Divination

Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Divination (plst) M19-51
Dovin's Acuity

When this enchantment enters, you gain 2 life and draw a card. Whenever you cast an instant spell during your main phase, you may return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dovin's Acuity (rna) 168
Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment
Forced Fruition (plst) LRW-66
Ichor Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Ichor Wellspring (brc) 143
Jace Reawakened

You can't cast Jace Reawakened during your first, second, or third turns of the game. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. +1: You may exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your hand. If you do, it becomes plotted. −6: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Planeswalker
Jace Reawakened (otj) 271
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.

Creature
Kiora, the Rising Tide (fdn) 45
Meat Locker

Enchantment
Meat Locker // Drowned Diner (dsk) 65
Merfolk Looter

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Merfolk Looter (afc) 86
Mindspring Merfolk

Exhaust — {X}{U}{U}, {T}: Draw X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on each Merfolk creature you control. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Creature
Mindspring Merfolk (dft) 51
Plunge into Winter

Tap up to one target creature. Scry 1, then draw a card.

Instant
Plunge into Winter (woe) 22
Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control. If you do, draw a card. {3}{W}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Creature
Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart (dmu) 212
Scroll Thief

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Scroll Thief (plst) DDT-17
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. {3}{U}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Tidal Courier (ddt) 19

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Mill

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Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (clb) 722
Fraying Sanity

Enchant player At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Enchantment
Fraying Sanity (hou) 35

Mill

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Untap

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Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
Wake Thrasher

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

Creature
Wake Thrasher (j22) 369

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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
Master of the Pearl Trident (lcc) 162
Merfolk Sovereign

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

Creature
Merfolk Sovereign (lcc) 164
Merrow Reejerey

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

Creature
Merrow Reejerey (lcc) 165

Anthem

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Evasion

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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.

Creature
Streambed Aquitects (ddt) 18
Tidal Warrior

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

Creature
Tidal Warrior (plst) DDT-20
True-Name Nemesis

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

Creature
True-Name Nemesis (plst) C13-63

Evasion

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Protection

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Hyena Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike. Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Hyena Umbra (2x2) 13
Misdirection

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Instant
Misdirection (plst) DDT-15
Ring of Evos Isle

{2}: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Evos Isle (m13) 211

Protection

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Copy

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Complete the Circuit

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) You may cast sorcery spells this turn as though they had flash. When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Instant
Complete the Circuit (mom) 52
See Double

This spell can't be copied. Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead. • Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) • Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Instant
See Double (mom) 77
Self-Reflection

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Self-Reflection (fdn) 163

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Land

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Azorius Guildgate

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

Land
Azorius Guildgate (clu) 230
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Edgewall Inn

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target card that has an Adventure from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Edgewall Inn (woe) 255
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (blc) 302
Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (blc) 307
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (blb) 371
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (blb) 369
Tranquil Cove

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

Land
Tranquil Cove (mom) 275

Land

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Ramp

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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.

Sorcery Kindred
Aquitect's Will (ddt) 2
Merfolk Wayfinder

Flying When this creature enters, 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.

Creature
Merfolk Wayfinder (ddt) 12
Mycosynth Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Mycosynth Wellspring (brc) 150
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (blc) 284
Turnabout

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

Instant
Turnabout (dmr) 70

Ramp

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Counters

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Brineborn Cutthroat

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Brineborn Cutthroat (j22) 278
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.

Enchantment
Solitary Sanctuary (woe) 30

Counters

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Landfall

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Grappling Kraken

Landfall — Whenever a land you control 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.)

Creature
Grappling Kraken (fdn) 39

Landfall

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Removal

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Claustrophobia

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchantment
Claustrophobia (plst) DDT-3
Confiscate

Enchant permanent You control enchanted permanent.

Enchantment
Confiscate (dmr) 44
Dungeon Geists

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Dungeon Geists (m20) 57
Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Instant
Engulf the Shore (ddt) 5
Essence Scatter

Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Essence Scatter (dmu) 49
Floodpits Drowner

Flash Vigilance When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. {1}{U}, {T}: Shuffle this creature and target creature with a stun counter on it into their owners' libraries.

Creature
Floodpits Drowner (dsk) 59
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.

Creature
Harbinger of the Tides (j22) 306
Lawmage's Binding

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Enchantment
Lawmage's Binding (plst) RNA-190
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
River's Rebuke

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

Sorcery
River's Rebuke (ncc) 231
Stall for Time

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Tap up to two target creatures. If this spell was kicked, put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Draw a card.

Instant
Stall for Time (dmu) 34
Stall Out

Tap target creature or Vehicle, then put three stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Stall Out (dft) 66
Tidebinder Mage

When this creature enters, tap target red or green creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Tidebinder Mage (ddt) 22
Wicked Slumber

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Tap up to two target creatures. Put a stun counter on either of them. Then put a stun counter on either of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Instant
Wicked Slumber (mom) 84

Removal

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Creature

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Coral Commando

Creature
Coral Commando (rna) 36
Expedition Lookout

Defender As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, this creature can attack as though it didn't have defender and it can't be blocked.

Creature
Expedition Lookout (mom) 56
Frostbridge Guard

{2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature
Frostbridge Guard (woe) 14
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.

Creature
Icewrought Sentry (woe) 55
Inkfathom Divers

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Creature
Inkfathom Divers (plst) DDT-8
Merfolk Coralsmith

{1}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When this creature dies, scry 2.

Creature
Merfolk Coralsmith (woe) 60

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Lifegain

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Angel's Mercy

You gain 7 life.

Instant
Angel's Mercy (m13) 3

Lifegain

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Tokens

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Faebloom Trick

Create two 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying. When you do, tap target creature an opponent controls.

Instant
Faebloom Trick (fdn) 38
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.)

Creature
Master of Waves (ddt) 1
Rise from the Tides

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Rise from the Tides (cmm) 117

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Deck Info

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11 pips - 10 cards
11 mana - 11 cards
76 pips - 53 cards
31 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
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0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
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