Grimoire Thief

Whenever Grimoire Thief becomes tapped, exile the top three cards of target opponent's library face down.
You may look at cards exiled with Grimoire Thief.
{U}, Sacrifice Grimoire Thief: Turn all cards exiled with Grimoire Thief face up. Counter all spells with those names.

Caller of Gales

{1}{U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Island

Heroic Intervention

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

Cursecatcher

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

Barkchannel Pathway

Tidechannel Pathway

Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway

Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast Harbinger of the Tides 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 Harbinger of the Tides enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

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.

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.

Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Wooded Foothills

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

Breeding Pool

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

Lord of Atlantis

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

Benthic Biomancer

{1}{U}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Benthic Biomancer, draw a card, then discard a card.

Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Swan Song

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

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Hinterland Harbor

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

Windswept Heath

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

Merfolk Trickster

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

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.

Sol Ring

Merrow Commerce

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

Merfolk Looter

Mistcaller

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

Flooded Strand

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

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}.)

Rivendell

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

Intruder Alarm

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

Tide Shaper

Kicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell.)
When Tide Shaper enters, if it was kicked, target land becomes an Island for as long as Tide Shaper remains on the battlefield.
Tide Shaper gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.

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.

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.)

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.

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Verdant Catacombs

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

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.

Rhystic Study

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

Alchemist's Refuge

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

Kiora's Follower

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Sylvan Scrying

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Tropical Island

Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Dreamroot Cascade

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

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.

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.

Merfolk Sovereign

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

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Seahunter

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

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Thassa's Oracle

When Thassa's Oracle enters, 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.)

Seedborn Muse

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

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.

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.

Fallowsage

Whenever Fallowsage becomes tapped, you may draw a card.

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.

Rishadan Dockhand

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
{1}, {T}: Tap target land.

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.

Triton Shorestalker

Mist-Cloaked Herald

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Forest

Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.
{2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

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.

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.")

Command Tower

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

Tidal Warrior

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

Merrow Reejerey

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

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

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.

Surgespanner

Whenever Surgespanner becomes tapped, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Cryptolith Rite

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

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.

Secluded Courtyard

As Secluded Courtyard 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 or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

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.

Cosi's Trickster

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

Vodalian Hexcatcher

Flash
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Earthcraft

Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap target basic land.

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Leyline of Anticipation

If Leyline of Anticipation is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Gaea's Cradle

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Squirrel Nest

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}: Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token."

Carpet of Flowers

At the beginning of each of your main phases, if you haven't added mana with this ability this turn, you may add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Islands target opponent controls.

Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste
When Craterhoof Behemoth enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

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.

Fierce Guardianship

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

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.

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.)

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Merfolk Mistbinder

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

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.

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.

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