Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Merfolk Trickster

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

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.

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Cursecatcher

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

Aquatic Incursion

When Aquatic Incursion 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.

Mist-Cloaked Herald

Seafloor Oracle

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

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.

Engulf the Shore

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

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.

Merfolk Sovereign

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

Merfolk Wayfinder

Flying
When Merfolk Wayfinder 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.

Merrow Reejerey

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

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.

Wake Thrasher

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

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.)

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.

River Sneak

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

Tempest Caller

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

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.

Door of Destinies

As Door of Destinies enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

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.

Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters, choose a creature type.
Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Stoneforge Masterwork

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it.
Equip {2}

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Dakra Mystic

{U}, {T}: Each player reveals the top card of their library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Master of Waves

Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When Master of Waves 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.)

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

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.

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

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.

Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel, Acquisitor 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.

Cosi's Trickster

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

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.

Spreading Seas

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

Inundate

Return all nonblue creatures to their owners' hands.

Deepchannel Mentor

Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.

Flow of Ideas

Waterspout Weavers

Kinship — At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Waterspout Weavers, you may reveal it. If you do, each creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

Fallowsage

Whenever Fallowsage becomes tapped, you may draw a card.

Merrow Commerce

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

Merrow Harbinger

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

Protective Bubble

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Surgespanner

Whenever Surgespanner becomes tapped, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, return target permanent 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.

Wanderwine Prophets

Champion a Merfolk (When this enters, 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.

Lord of Atlantis

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

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.

Reef Shaman

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

Empress Galina

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

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.

Seahunter

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

Sea Scryer

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

High Tide

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

Salvager of Secrets

When Salvager of Secrets enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mistcaller

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

Saltwater Stalwart

Whenever Saltwater Stalwart deals damage to an opponent, target player draws a card.

Spark Double

You may have Spark Double enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

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.

Heraldic Banner

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

Tidal Warrior

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

Silvergill Adept

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

Crashing Tide

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

Augur of Bolas

When Augur of Bolas enters, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{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.)

Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fierce Guardianship

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

Shipwreck Dowser

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Library Larcenist

Whenever Library Larcenist attacks, draw a card.

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Rhystic Study

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

Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

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.")

Adaptive Automaton

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Merfolk Windrobber

Flying
Whenever Merfolk Windrobber deals combat damage to a player, that player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Sacrifice Merfolk Windrobber: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

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, 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.

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, Reborn

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

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn

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.

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.)

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.)

Negate

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.

Distant Melody

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

Military Intelligence

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

Open into Wonder

X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Triton Shorestalker

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander {3}
Equip {5}

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