Sygg, River Guide

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
{1}{W}: Target Merfolk you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Rootwater Hunter

{T}: Rootwater Hunter deals 1 damage to any target.

Plains

Dramatic Rescue

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You gain 2 life.

Merrow Reejerey

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

Mystic Decree

All creatures lose flying and islandwalk.

Mindstatic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {6}.

Whirlpool Rider

When Whirlpool Rider enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Cosi's Trickster

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

Island

Wanderwine Hub

As Wanderwine Hub enters, you may reveal a Merfolk card from your hand. If you don't, Wanderwine Hub enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Merfolk Spy

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Merfolk Spy deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals a card at random from their hand.

Explorer's Scope

Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Rootwater Commando

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Into the Story

This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Draw four cards.

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.

Razorfin Abolisher

{1}{U}, {T}: Return target creature with a counter on it to its owner's hand.

Merrow Harbinger

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When Merrow Harbinger enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Wanderwine Prophets

Champion a Merfolk (When this enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another Merfolk you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)
Whenever Wanderwine Prophets deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a Merfolk. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Merfolk Thaumaturgist

{T}: Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Magosi, the Waterveil

Magosi, the Waterveil enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Put an eon counter on Magosi, the Waterveil. Skip your next turn.
{T}, Remove an eon counter from Magosi, the Waterveil and return it to its owner's hand: Take an extra turn after this one.

Halimar Wavewatch

Level up {2} ({2}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 1-4
0/6
LEVEL 5+
6/6
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Tidal Courier

When Tidal Courier enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Merfolk cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
{3}{U}: Tidal Courier gains flying until end of turn.

Gridlock

Ring of Evos Isle

{2}: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Tideshaper Mystic

{T}: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn. Activate only during your turn.

Vodalian Mage

{U}, {T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters tapped.
When Halimar Depths enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Rootwater Thief

{U}: Rootwater Thief gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever Rootwater Thief deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}. If you do, search that player's library for a card and exile it, then the player shuffles.

Sky Diamond

Benthicore

When Benthicore enters, create two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens.
Tap two untapped Merfolk you control: Untap Benthicore. It gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Wake Thrasher

Whenever a permanent you control becomes untapped, Wake Thrasher gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Cancel

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.

Frostwind Invoker

Flying
{8}: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

Saprazzan Legate

If an opponent controls a Mountain and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Flying

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.

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.)

Hidden Strings

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Shoreline Raider

Voidwalk

Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Silvergill Douser

{T}: Target creature gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Merfolk and/or Faeries you control.

Sejiri Merfolk

As long as you control a Plains, Sejiri Merfolk has first strike and lifelink. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Lord of Atlantis

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

Inkfathom Divers

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When Inkfathom Divers enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

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.

Skybridge Towers

Skybridge Towers enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
{2}{W}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Skybridge Towers: Draw a card.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters 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.)

Merfolk Observer

When Merfolk Observer enters, look at the top card of target player's library.

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.

Evasive Action

Domain — Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each basic land type among lands you control.

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.)

Merfolk Sovereign

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

Puresight Merrow

{W/U}, {Q}: Look at the top card of your library. You may exile that card. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Quash

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Omniscience

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

Stonybrook Schoolmaster

Whenever Stonybrook Schoolmaster becomes tapped, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature token.

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.

Stonybrook Angler

{1}{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Safe Passage

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control this turn.

Meandering River

Meandering River enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Vodalian Illusionist

{U}{U}, {T}: Target creature phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Waterspout Weavers

Kinship — At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Waterspout Weavers, you may reveal it. If you do, each creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

Judge of Currents

Whenever a Merfolk you control becomes tapped, you may gain 1 life.

Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Harpoon Sniper

{W}, {T}: Harpoon Sniper deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of Merfolk you control.

Wellgabber Apothecary

{1}{W}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target tapped Merfolk or Kithkin creature this turn.

Tranquil Cove

Tranquil Cove enters tapped.
When Tranquil Cove enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Veteran of the Depths

Whenever Veteran of the Depths becomes tapped, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Repel the Darkness

Tap up to two target creatures.
Draw a card.

Demystify

Summon the School

Create two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens.
Tap four untapped Merfolk you control: Return Summon the School from your graveyard to your hand.

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