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Commander

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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
. If you do, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Noble
Emperor Mihail II (dmc) 73

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Anthem

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Hall of Triumph
As Hall of Triumph enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Legendary Artifact
Hall of Triumph (jou) 162
Icon of Ancestry
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
,
: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (lcc) 305
Instruments of War
Flash
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Artifact
Instruments of War (j22) 50
Lord of Atlantis
Other Merfolk get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Creature - Merfolk
Lord of Atlantis (6ed) 79
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.)
Creature - Merfolk
Master of the Pearl Trident (m13) 59
Merfolk Sovereign
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Merfolk Noble
Merfolk Sovereign (m10) 62
Merrow Reejerey
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.
Creature - Soldier Merfolk
Merrow Reejerey (lrw) 74
Paragon of Gathering Mists
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
,
: Another target blue creature you control gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Human Wizard
Paragon of Gathering Mists (m15) 73
Vodalian Hexcatcher
Flash
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Vodalian Hexcatcher (dmu) 75

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Draw

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Bident of Thassa
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
,
: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (pths) 42★
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (sta) 13
Brainsurge
Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainsurge (mh3) 53
Combat Research
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward
. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Enchantment - Aura
Combat Research (dmu) 44
Divination
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Divination (dom) 52
Fallowsage
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Fallowsage (moc) 223
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(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
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (ice) 87
Nezahal, Primal Tide
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
Nezahal, Primal Tide (rix) 45
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (eld) 59
Quick Study
Draw two cards.
Instant
Quick Study (fdn) 513
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 25
Seafloor Oracle
Whenever a Merfolk you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Seafloor Oracle (lcc) 170
Sensei's Divining Top
: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
Spreading Seas
Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land is an Island.
Enchantment - Aura
Spreading Seas (wot) 26
Svyelun of Sea and Sky
Svyelun has indestructible as long as you control at least two other Merfolk.
Whenever Svyelun attacks, draw a card.
Other Merfolk you control have ward
. (Whenever another Merfolk you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Legendary Creature - Merfolk God
Svyelun of Sea and Sky (mh2) 69
Thassa's Oracle
When this creature 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
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73

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Evasion

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Deepchannel Mentor
Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Deepchannel Mentor (shm) 35
Harbinger of the Seas
Nonbasic lands are Islands.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63
Levitation
Creatures you control have flying.
Enchantment
Levitation (m12) 61
River Sneak
This creature can't be blocked.
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
River Sneak (xln) 70
Stormtide Leviathan
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.
Creature - Leviathan
Stormtide Leviathan (cmr) 407
Streambed Aquitects
: Target Merfolk creature gets +1/+1 and gains islandwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Streambed Aquitects (lrw) 91
Tempest Caller
When this creature enters, tap all creatures target opponent controls.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tempest Caller (xln) 86
Tidal Warrior
: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Tidal Warrior (sth) 47
Tide Shaper
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target land becomes an Island for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tide Shaper (mh2) 394
Triton Shorestalker
This creature can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Triton Shorestalker (otc) 121

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Land

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Castle Vantress
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
: Add
.
,
: Scry 2.
Land
Castle Vantress (dsc) 267
Halimar Depths
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Add
.
Land
Halimar Depths (wwk) 137
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (j25) 85
Lonely Sandbar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Lonely Sandbar (j25) 769
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Otawara, Soaring City
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 503
Rivendell
Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
: Add
.
,
: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.
Legendary Land
Rivendell (ltr) 259

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Protection

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Kopala, Warden of Waves
Spells your opponents cast that target a Merfolk you control cost
more to cast.
Abilities your opponents activate that target a Merfolk you control cost
more to activate.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Kopala, Warden of Waves (lcc) 160

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (ltc) 273
Chrome Mox
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.
Artifact
Chrome Mox (wc04) mb152
Everflowing Chalice
Multikicker
(You may pay an additional
any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
: Add
for each charge counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (mkc) 227
Fractured Powerstone
: Add
.
: Roll the planar die. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Fractured Powerstone (moc) 357
Heraldic Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Heraldic Banner (fdn) 254
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
Mox Amber
: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.
Legendary Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (cmr) 472
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
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Stonybrook Banneret (mor) 51
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (clb) 344

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Recursion

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Flood of Recollection
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Flood of Recollection.
Sorcery
Flood of Recollection (rix) 38
Relearn
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Relearn (plst) WTH-51

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Removal

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Boomerang
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Instant
Boomerang (chr) 16
Consuming Tide
Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.
Sorcery
Consuming Tide (vow) 53
Control Magic
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Control Magic (3ed) 52
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmr) 395
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
Defabricate
Choose one —
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
Instant
Defabricate (bro) 45
Dissipate
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
Dissipate (m15) 51
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Instant
Flusterstorm (mh3) 496
Ixidron
As this creature enters, turn all other nontoken creatures face down. (They're 2/2 creatures.)
Ixidron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of face-down creatures on the battlefield.
Creature - Illusion
Ixidron (c19) 87
Merfolk Trickster
Flash
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. It loses all abilities until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Merfolk Trickster (dom) 56
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (rix) 44
Public Enemy
Enchant creature
All creatures attack enchanted creature's controller each combat if able.
When enchanted creature dies, draw a card.
Enchantment - Aura
Public Enemy (snc) 55
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.)
Instant
Reality Shift (cmm) 634
Repulse
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Instant
Repulse (inv) 70
Resculpt
Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
Instant
Resculpt (cmm) 115
Unsummon
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Instant
Unsummon (hou) 54
Unwind
Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Unwind (dom) 72

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Tutor

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Merrow Harbinger
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Merrow Harbinger (lrw) 73

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Sideboard

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Cosi's Trickster
Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Cosi's Trickster (zen) 45
Curiosity
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
Enchantment - Aura
Curiosity (wot) 17
Deep-Sea Kraken
This creature can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with nine 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. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.
Creature - Kraken
Deep-Sea Kraken (dds) 3
Devastation Tide
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Miracle
(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Sorcery
Devastation Tide (ltc) 189
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.
Sorcery
Enter the Infinite (gtc) 34
Evacuation
Return all creatures to their owners' hands.
Instant
Evacuation (lcc) 156
Guile
This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
If a spell or ability you control would counter a spell, instead exile that spell and you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
When Guile is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Guile (mm2) 46
Leyline of Anticipation
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.
Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (wot) 23
Ovinize
Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1.
Instant
Ovinize (dmr) 63
Scourge of Fleets
When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Creature - Kraken
Scourge of Fleets (cmr) 403
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (moc) 379
Soothsaying
: Shuffle your library.
: Look at the top X cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Enchantment
Soothsaying (mmq) 104
Stormsurge Kraken
Hexproof
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."
Creature - Kraken
Stormsurge Kraken (cmm) 122
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.)
Legendary Creature - Kraken
Tromokratis (cmm) 129
Turn to Frog
Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.
Instant
Turn to Frog (clu) 103
Wake Thrasher
Whenever a permanent you control becomes untapped, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Soldier Merfolk
Wake Thrasher (j22) 369

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Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Aquatic Incursion
When this enchantment enters, create two 1/1 blue Merfolk creature tokens with hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
: Target Merfolk can't be blocked this turn.
Enchantment
Aquatic Incursion (rix) 32
Aquitect's Will
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. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.
Sorcery Kindred - Merfolk
Aquitect's Will (lrw) 52
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 this creature.
Creature - Merfolk Pirate
Brineborn Cutthroat (fdn) 152
Cursecatcher
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Cursecatcher (a25) 53
Deeproot Pilgrimage
Whenever one or more nontoken Merfolk you control become tapped, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof.
Enchantment
Deeproot Pilgrimage (lci) 52
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.)
Enchantment
Deeproot Waters (xln) 51
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs
(or
) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Fish
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea (blb) 49
Flow of Knowledge
Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.
Instant
Flow of Knowledge (bro) 49
Gather Specimens
If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters under your control instead.
Instant
Gather Specimens (ala) 45
Hieroglyphic Illumination
Draw two cards.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Hieroglyphic Illumination (c20) 112
High Tide
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional
.
Instant
High Tide (dmr) 286
Kindred Discovery
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.
Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (wot) 22
Murktide Regent
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each instant and sorcery card exiled with it.
Whenever an instant or sorcery card leaves your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Dragon
Murktide Regent (mh2) 52
River Herald Scout
When this creature 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.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
River Herald Scout (lci) 72
Sage of Fables
Each other Wizard creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Sage of Fables (lcc) 169
Seasinger
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.
You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.
: Gain control of target creature whose controller controls an Island for as long as you control this creature and this creature remains tapped.
Creature - Merfolk
Seasinger (fem) 25
Sky Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Sky Diamond (clb) 337
Snapback
You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Instant
Snapback (tsr) 87
Spire Golem
Affinity for Islands (This spell costs
less to cast for each Island you control.)
Flying
Creature Artifact - Golem
Spire Golem (jvc) 16
Thassa, God of the Sea
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Thassa, God of the Sea (lcc) 176
Thassa's Rebuff
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
, where X is your devotion to blue. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Instant
Thassa's Rebuff (bng) 54
Tidal Courier
When this creature 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.
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Merfolk
Tidal Courier (apc) 31
Titan of Littjara
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may draw a card for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it. If you do, discard a card.
Creature - Illusion
Titan of Littjara (cmm) 728
Tolarian Terror
This spell costs
less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Creature - Serpent
Tolarian Terror (dmu) 72

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Merfolk
Creature Token - Merfolk
Merfolk (tlcc) 3
Merfolk
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Creature Token - Merfolk
Merfolk (tlci) 5

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