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Commander

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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 attacks, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you don't, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Scout Merfolk
Hakbal of the Surging Soul (lcc) 123

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Anthem

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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 (7ed) 83
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 (lcc) 162
Merfolk Mistbinder
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Merfolk Mistbinder (lcc) 276
Merfolk Sovereign
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Merfolk Noble
Merfolk Sovereign (lcc) 164
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 (lcc) 165

Anthem

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Copy

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Deepfathom Echo
At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature explores. Then you may have it become a copy of another creature you control until end of turn. (To have this creature explore, 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 - Merfolk Spirit
Deepfathom Echo (lci) 228
Reflections of Littjara
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (tdc) 164

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Counters

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Hardened Scales
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Enchantment
Hardened Scales (fic) 307
Simic Ascendancy
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.
Enchantment
Simic Ascendancy (blc) 260
Topography Tracker
When this creature enters, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
If a creature you control would explore, instead it explores, then it explores again.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Topography Tracker (lcc) 95

Counters

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Creature

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Triton Shorethief
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Triton Shorethief (ths) 70

Creature

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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 (blc) 162
Cenote 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
Cenote Scout (lci) 178
Cold-Eyed Selkie
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Cold-Eyed Selkie (otc) 218
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 (lcc) 155
Inspiring Call
Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
Instant
Inspiring Call (tle) 168
Jadelight Spelunker
When this creature enters, it explores X times. (To have it explore, 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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Jadelight Spelunker (lci) 196
Kiora, the Rising Tide
When Kiora enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Threshold — Whenever Kiora attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may create Scion of the Deep, a legendary 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Noble
Kiora, the Rising Tide (fdn) 45
Path of Discovery
Whenever a creature you control 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 the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Enchantment
Path of Discovery (fic) 312
Roil Cartographer
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you get
(an energy counter).
, Pay six
: Draw three cards.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Roil Cartographer (mh3) 67
Seafloor Oracle
Whenever a Merfolk you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Seafloor Oracle (lcc) 170
Seeker of Sunlight
: This creature 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.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Seeker of Sunlight (lci) 210
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Druid Merfolk
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (fdn) 247
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 (ddt) 19

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Evasion

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Caller of Gales
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: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Caller of Gales (plst) CN2-103
Gray Harbor Merfolk
This creature can't be blocked.
This creature gets +2/+0 as long as you control a commander that's a creature or planeswalker.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Gray Harbor Merfolk (clb) 75
Merfolk Cave-Diver
Whenever a creature you control explores, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Merfolk Cave-Diver (lci) 65
Merfolk Spy
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals a card at random from their hand.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Merfolk Spy (m14) 62
Mist-Cloaked Herald
This creature can't be blocked.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Mist-Cloaked Herald (m19) 310
Triton Shorestalker
This creature can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Triton Shorestalker (otc) 121

Evasion

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Land

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Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (drc) 153
Forest
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (dft) 289
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (dft) 280
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (drc) 61
Thornwood Falls
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Thornwood Falls (dft) 266

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Protection

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Singer of Swift Rivers
Flash
When this creature enters, put a shield counter on another target creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
You may cast Merfolk spells as though they had flash.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Singer of Swift Rivers (lcc) 98
Steely Resolve
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
Enchantment
Steely Resolve (sld) 1326

Protection

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Ramp

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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 (ddt) 2
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
Cultivate
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.
Sorcery
Cultivate (eoc) 95
Decanter of Endless Water
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Growth Spiral
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
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.
Legendary Creature - Scout Merfolk
Nicanzil, Current Conductor (lci) 236
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (fic) 313
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
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 (lcc) 173
Talisman of Curiosity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (drc) 140
Twists and Turns
If a creature you control would explore, instead you scry 1, then that creature explores.
When this enchantment enters, target creature you control explores.
When a land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands, transform this enchantment.
Enchantment
Twists and Turns // Mycoid Maze (lci) 217Twists and Turns // Mycoid Maze (lci) 217

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Recursion

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Bygone Marvels
Descend 8 — When you cast this spell, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, copy this spell twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bygone Marvels.
Sorcery
Bygone Marvels (lcc) 89
Deeproot Historian
Merfolk and Druid cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast cards with retrace from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)
Creature - Druid Merfolk
Deeproot Historian (lcc) 91

Recursion

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Removal

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Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (eoc) 93
Cancel
Counter target spell.
Instant
Cancel (fdn) 505
Crashing Tide
This spell has flash as long as you control a Merfolk.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Crashing Tide (j22) 283
Harbinger of the Tides
You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay
more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Tides (fdn) 593
Over the Edge
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Target creature you control explores, then it explores again. (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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)
Sorcery
Over the Edge (lci) 205
Ravenform
Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Sorcery
Ravenform (lcc) 167
Thieving Skydiver
Kicker
. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to this creature.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Thieving Skydiver (otc) 118
Tidebinder Mage
When this creature enters, 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 this creature.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tidebinder Mage (ddt) 22
Tishana's Tidebinder
Flash
When this creature enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tishana's Tidebinder (lci) 81

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Stax

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Harbinger of the Seas
Nonbasic lands are Islands.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63

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Tokens

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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 (lcc) 152
Master of Waves
Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Master of Waves (plst) DDT-1
Sentinel of the Nameless City
Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Creature - Warrior Scout Merfolk
Sentinel of the Nameless City (lci) 211
Waterwind Scout
Flying
When this creature enters, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Waterwind Scout (lci) 84

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Untap

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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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