Murkfiend Liege

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Lord of Atlantis

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

Merrow Reejerey

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

Kiora's Follower

Double Major

Copy target creature spell you control, except it isn't legendary if the spell is legendary. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Moritte of the Frost

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
You may have Moritte of the Frost enter as a copy of a permanent you control, except it's legendary and snow in addition to its other types and, if it's a creature, it enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it and has changeling.

Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca

Tap another untapped Merfolk you control: Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca can't be blocked this turn.
Tap three untapped Merfolk you control: Draw a card.
Tap five untapped Merfolk you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Merfolk you control.

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

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.

Plasm Capture

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next first main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is that spell's mana value.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Realmwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
As Realmwalker enters, choose a creature type.
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.

Kodama's Reach

Repudiate

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

Replicate

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Repudiate // Replicate

Mirage Mirror

{2}: Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Dreamroot Cascade

Dreamroot Cascade enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Voidslime

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

Merfolk Trickster

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

Ground Seal

When Ground Seal enters, draw a card.
Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

Harvest Season

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of tapped creatures you control, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Oversimplify

Exile all creatures. Each player creates a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and puts a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total power of creatures they controlled that were exiled this way.

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.)

Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

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.")

Thought Vessel

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

Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Empress Galina

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

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.

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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.

Simic Signet

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls 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, and that spell can't be countered.

Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

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.)

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory 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.

Deeproot Elite

Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Merfolk you control.

Distant Melody

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

Fade from History

Each player who controls an artifact or enchantment creates a 2/2 green Bear creature token. Then destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

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.)

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.

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Merrow Commerce

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

Rhystic Study

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

Island

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.)

Vodalian Hexcatcher

Flash
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature 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.

Simic Growth Chamber

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

Merfolk Sovereign

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

Cold-Eyed Selkie

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Cold-Eyed Selkie deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

Mistcaller

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

Forerunner of the Heralds

When Forerunner of the Heralds enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Forerunner of the Heralds.

As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on As Foretold.
Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on As Foretold.

The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Sol Ring

Herald of Secret Streams

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

Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Quandrix Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Forest

Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Gyre Engineer

Swift Warden

Flash
When Swift Warden enters, target Merfolk you control gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Barkchannel Pathway

Tidechannel Pathway

Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway

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.

Song of Freyalise

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Until your next turn, creatures you control gain "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance, trample, and indestructible until end of turn.

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.

Bane of Progress

When Bane of Progress enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on Bane of Progress for each permanent destroyed this way.

Seafloor Oracle

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

Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}.
{G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice Cankerbloom: 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.)

Reflections of Littjara

As Reflections of Littjara enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
When Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Tishana, Voice of Thunder

Tishana, Voice of Thunder's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
When Tishana enters, draw a card for each creature you control.

Vineglimmer Snarl

As Vineglimmer Snarl enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Vineglimmer Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Command Tower

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

Merfolk Mistbinder

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Time Spiral

Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

Fallowsage

Whenever Fallowsage becomes tapped, you may draw a card.

Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Quest for Renewal

Whenever a creature you control becomes tapped, you may put a quest counter on Quest for Renewal.
As long as there are four or more quest counters on Quest for Renewal, untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Arcane Signet

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Birds of Paradise

Seahunter

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

Wave Goodbye

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

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 of the Surging Soul attacks, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you don't, draw a card.

Singer of Swift Rivers

Flash
When Singer of Swift Rivers enters, put a shield counter on another target creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
You may cast Merfolk spells as though they had flash.

Deeproot Historian

Merfolk and Druid cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast cards with retrace from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

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.)

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

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.)

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