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.

Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Arcane Signet

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

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters the battlefield 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}.

Bane's Contingency

Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

Biblioplex Kraken

When Biblioplex Kraken enters the battlefield, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Whenever Biblioplex Kraken attacks, you may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, Biblioplex Kraken can't be blocked this 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.

Botanical Sanctum

Botanical Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Calculated Dismissal

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea

Callaphe's power is equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creatures and enchantments you control have "Spells your opponents cast that target this permanent cost {1} more to cast."

Cancel

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast.
{3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Coral Atoll

Coral Atoll enters the battlefield tapped.
When Coral Atoll enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{U}.

Council's Deliberation

Draw a card.
Whenever you scry, if you control an Island, you may exile Council's Deliberation from your graveyard. If you do, draw a card.

Counterspell

Disallow

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

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Dreamroot Cascade

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

Enter the Infinite

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.

Forest

Garruk's Uprising

When Garruk's Uprising enters the battlefield, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (They can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker they're attacking.)
Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

High Tide

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

Hinterland Harbor

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

Horseshoe Crab

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Island

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

If you would scry a number of cards, scry that many cards plus one instead.
{3}{G/U}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Kiora Bests the Sea God

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof.
II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.

Kiora, Master of the Depths

+1: Untap up to one target creature and up to one target land.
−2: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it fight target creature." Then create three 8/8 blue Octopus creature tokens.

Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Vigilance, ward {3}
Whenever you cast a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell from your hand, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value less than X from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Kiora, the Crashing Wave

+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target permanent an opponent controls.
−1: Draw a card. You may play an additional land this turn.
−5: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token."

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.

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.

Lorthos, the Tidemaker

Whenever Lorthos, the Tidemaker attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

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.

Memory Drain

Merfolk Coralsmith

{1}: Merfolk Coralsmith gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
When Merfolk Coralsmith dies, scry 2.

Monstrosity of the Lake

When Monstrosity of the Lake enters the battlefield, you may pay {5}. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadir Kraken and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Nissa, Steward of Elements

+2: Scry 2.
0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, Steward of Elements, you may put that card onto the battlefield.
−6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.

Octoprophet

When Octoprophet enters the battlefield, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on Ominous Seas.
Remove eight foreshadow counters from Ominous Seas: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Omniscience

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Oracle's Insight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: Scry 1, then draw a card." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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.)

Plasm Capture

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

Precognitive Perception

Draw three cards.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead scry 3, then draw three cards.

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.)

Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters the battlefield, draw cards equal to its power.

Quandrix Campus

Quandrix Campus enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Reason

Believe

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Look at the top card of your library. You may put it onto the battlefield if it's a creature card. If you don't, put it into your hand.

Reason // Believe

Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one —
• You may tap or untap target creature.
• Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Rivendell

Rivendell enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control Shipbreaker Kraken.

Sigiled Starfish

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Simic Growth Chamber

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

Simic Signet

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 the battlefield, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sol Ring

Study Hall

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Svyelun of Sea and Sky

Svyelun of Sea and Sky has indestructible as long as you control at least two other Merfolk.
Whenever Svyelun attacks, draw a card.
Other Merfolk you control have ward {1}. (Whenever another Merfolk you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Talisman of Curiosity deals 1 damage to you.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

Tatyova, Steward of Tides

Land creatures you control have flying.
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, 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.

Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

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.)

The Temporal Anchor

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2.
Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.

Tidepool Turtle

{2}{U}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

Ugin's Insight

Scry X, where X is the highest mana value among permanents you control, then draw three cards.

Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Whenever Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood enters the battlefield or attacks, 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.
At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

Zegana, Utopian Speaker

When Zegana, Utopian Speaker enters the battlefield, if you control another creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card.
{4}{G}{U}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

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.)

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