River Herald Guide

Vigilance
When River Herald Guide enters, it 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

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.

River's Rebuke

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

Forest

Seafloor Oracle

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

Nicanzil, Current Conductor

Whenever a creature you control explores a land card, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Whenever a creature you control explores a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on Nicanzil, Current Conductor.

Dive Down

Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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.

Beyeen Veil

Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 until end of turn.

Beyeen Coast

Beyeen Coast enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Beyeen Veil // Beyeen Coast

Tidal Warrior

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

Khalni Ambush

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Khalni Territory

Khalni Territory enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.

Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory

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.)

Herald of Secret Streams

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

Island

Quandrix Pledgemage

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Quandrix Pledgemage.

Umara Wizard

Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell, Umara Wizard gains flying until end of turn.

Umara Skyfalls

Umara Skyfalls enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

Roiling Regrowth

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Voyage's End

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

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.

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.

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.)

Cenote Scout

When Cenote Scout enters, it 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

River Heralds' Boon

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Merfolk.

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.

Kodama's Reach

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.

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.

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Blinding Fog

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures this turn. Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Seeker of Sunlight

{2}{G}: Seeker of Sunlight explores. Activate only as a sorcery. (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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

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.)

Jungleborn Pioneer

When Jungleborn Pioneer enters, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Library Larcenist

Whenever Library Larcenist attacks, draw a card.

Riverwise Augur

When Riverwise Augur enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Deeproot Champion

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Deeproot Champion.

Triton Tactics

Up to two target creatures each get +0/+3 until end of turn. Untap those creatures. At this turn's next end of combat, tap each creature that was blocked by one of those creatures this turn and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

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.

Deeproot Elite

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

Vastwood Fortification

Vastwood Thicket

Vastwood Thicket enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.

Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Bala Ged Sanctuary enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

River Herald Scout

When River Herald Scout enters, it 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Sentinel of the Nameless City

Vigilance
Whenever Sentinel of the Nameless City enters or attacks, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Filter Out

Return all noncreature, nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Tempest Caller

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

Primal Empathy

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

Vineshaper Mystic

When Vineshaper Mystic enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target Merfolk you control.

Jade Bearer

When Jade Bearer enters, put a +1/+1 counter on another target Merfolk you control.

Combine Guildmage

{1}{G}, {T}: This turn, each creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
{1}{U}, {T}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto another target creature you control.

Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Shapers of Nature

{3}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{2}{U}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Kumena's Awakening

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. If you have the city's blessing, instead only you draw a card.

Cultivate

Hadana's Climb

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if that creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform Hadana's Climb.

Winged Temple of Orazca

(Transforms from Hadana's Climb.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}{G}{U}, {T}: Target creature you control gains flying and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca

Zegana, Utopian Speaker

When Zegana, Utopian Speaker enters, 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.

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}.)

Tidal Barracuda

Any player may cast spells as though they had flash.
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.

Merfolk Branchwalker

When Merfolk Branchwalker enters, it 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

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.

Dreamroot Cascade

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

Rishadan Dockhand

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

Vodalian Hexcatcher

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

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.

Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterlogged Grove: Draw a card.

Crack Open

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters 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}.

Turntimber Symbiosis

Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. If that card has mana value 3 or less, it enters with three additional +1/+1 counters on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Turntimber, Serpentine Wood

As Turntimber, Serpentine Wood enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.

Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood

Vorel of the Hull Clade

{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.

Into the Roil

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Crypsis

Target creature you control gains protection from creatures your opponents control until end of turn. Untap it.

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