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}.)

Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Aether Vial

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Aether Vial.
{T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Aether Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Arcane Laboratory

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

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 Brineborn Cutthroat.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, 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.

Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Chalice of the Void

Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.

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.

Cosi's Trickster

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

Counterbalance

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.

Counterspell

Cursecatcher

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

Cursed Totem

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

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.")

Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Dispel

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.

Lord of Atlantis

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

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.

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Flying
Whenever one or more Pirates you control deal damage to your opponents, you create a Treasure token for each opponent dealt damage. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

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.

March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

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.)

Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Merfolk Sovereign

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

Merfolk Trickster

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

Dress Down

Flash
When Dress Down enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Creatures lose all abilities.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Dress Down.

Fierce Guardianship

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

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.

Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

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.

Gemstone Caverns

If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Gilded Drake

Flying
When Gilded Drake enters the battlefield, exchange control of Gilded Drake and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice Gilded Drake. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Glasspool Mimic

You may have Glasspool Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types.

Glasspool Shore

Glasspool Shore enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore

Grafdigger's Cage

Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Island

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Merrow Reejerey

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

Mindbreak Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile any number of target spells.

Misdirection

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Mistcaller

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

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.

Mox Diamond

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

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}.

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

Phantasmal Image

You may have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Pithing Needle

As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, choose a card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

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.

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Rhystic Study

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

Rishadan Dockhand

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

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.

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 the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn

Seafloor Oracle

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

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

Sigil Tracer

{1}{U}, Tap two untapped Wizards you control: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Sol Ring

Spreading Seas

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

Stoneforge Masterwork

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

Swan Song

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

Talrand, Sky Summoner

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

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.

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 the battlefield, 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.

Tidebinder Mage

When Tidebinder Mage enters the battlefield, tap target red or green creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Tidebinder Mage.

Tolaria West

Tolaria West enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Torpor Orb

Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

Trinisphere

As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)

Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.
Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one —
• Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
Equip {2}

Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Vodalian Hexcatcher

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

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Winds of Rebuke

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.

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