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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) 3

Commander

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Copy

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Cephalid Facetaker
This creature can't be blocked.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have this creature become a copy of another target creature until end of turn, except it's 1/4 and has "This creature can't be blocked."
Creature - Rogue Octopus
Cephalid Facetaker (pncc) 23p
Mirage Mirror
: This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.
Artifact
Mirage Mirror (m3c) 300

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Counterspells

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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 630
Cryptic Command
Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
Instant
Cryptic Command (lrw) 56
Deprive
As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Deprive (roe) 59
Familiar's Ruse
As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Familiar's Ruse (lrw) 64
Long River's Pull
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.
Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Muddle the Mixture
Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 315
Pact of Negation
Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay
. If you don't, you lose the game.
Instant
Pact of Negation (a25) 68
Three Steps Ahead
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Counter target spell.
+
— Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+
— Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75

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Creature

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Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Deeproot Elite
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Merfolk you control.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Deeproot Elite (lcc) 237
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
Forensic Researcher
: Untap another target permanent you control.
, Collect evidence 3: Tap target creature you don't control. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)
Creature - Merfolk Detective
Forensic Researcher (mkm) 58
Herald of Secret Streams
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Herald of Secret Streams (lcc) 158
Kiora's Follower
: Untap another target permanent.
Creature - Merfolk
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
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 (pxln) 61p
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 (4ed) 82
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 (rix) 164
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 (j22) 61
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
Seafloor Oracle
Whenever a Merfolk you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Seafloor Oracle (rix) 51
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
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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Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (tle) 155
Growth Spiral
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Growth Spiral (prna) 178
Index
Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Sorcery
Index (apc) 25
Lessons from Life
Draw three cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Lessons from Life (tmt) 155
Ponder
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ponder (lrw) 79
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.)
Sorcery
Preordain (who) 218
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45

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Enchantment

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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
Intruder Alarm
Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.
Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (plst) 8ED-86

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Evasion

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Artful Dodge
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Artful Dodge (dka) 27
Instill Energy
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste.
: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.
Enchantment - Aura
Instill Energy (ced) 203

Evasion

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Finisher

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Mist Dancer
Flying
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+0 and have flying.
Encore
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Mist Dancer (lcc) 76
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) 310
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 this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a Merfolk. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Wanderwine Prophets (lrw) 95

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge
: Add
.
,
: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Alchemist's Refuge (avr) 225
Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (gtc) 240
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (m3c) 331
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (vow) 282
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (m3c) 341
Flooded Grove
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Flooded Grove (m3c) 342
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (tdm) 286
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 (ddm) 36
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tdm) 279
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
: Add
.
,
: Untap target legendary permanent.
Legendary Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Mistrise Village
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
: Add
.
,
: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Land
Mistrise Village (ptdm) 261p
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (zen) 220
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 (pneo) 271s
Overflowing Basin
,
: Add
.
Land
Overflowing Basin (pip) 972
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (pw24) 10
Secluded Courtyard
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.
Land
Secluded Courtyard (neo) 512
Unclaimed Territory
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.
Land
Unclaimed Territory (xln) 258
Vineglimmer Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (m3c) 405
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (m3c) 410

Land

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Mana artifacts

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 653
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (pfdn) 1
Talisman of Curiosity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mh1) 232

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One mana merfolk

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Benthic Biomancer
: 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 this creature, draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk Mutant
Benthic Biomancer (lcc) 145
Harmonized Trio
, Tap two untapped creatures you control: This creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk Bard
Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm (sos) 317
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 (rix) 43
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) 72

One mana merfolk

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 471
Tamiyo's Safekeeping
Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Protection

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Ramp

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Abundant Growth
Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land has "
: Add one mana of any color."
Enchantment - Aura
Abundant Growth (inr) 315
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 (f11) 8
Explore
You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Explore (tle) 259

Ramp

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Regrowth
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Regrowth (sld) 866

Recursion

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Removal

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Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (ltc) 234
Collective Resistance
Escalate
(Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Target creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Collective Resistance (mh3) 147
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 (rtr) 35
Kenrith's Transformation
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)
Enchantment - Aura
Kenrith's Transformation (woc) 128

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Tutor

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Eldritch Evolution
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, where X is 2 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Exile Eldritch Evolution.
Sorcery
Eldritch Evolution (inr) 195
Long-Term Plans
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.
Instant
Long-Term Plans (scg) 38
Mystical Tutor
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Mystical Tutor (ss1) 6
Nature's Rhythm
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Harmonize
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by an amount of generic mana equal to its power. Then exile this spell.)
Sorcery
Nature's Rhythm (ptdm) 150p

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Maybeboard

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Animist's Awakening
Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.
Sorcery
Animist's Awakening (c20) 166
Annul
Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.
Instant
Annul (mrd) 29
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
Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (cma) 30
Bane's Contingency
Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.
Instant
Bane's Contingency (clb) 57
Botanical Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Botanical Sanctum (kld) 244
Branching Evolution
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
Enchantment
Branching Evolution (mh3) 285
Brokers Confluence
Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
• Target creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
Instant
Brokers Confluence (ncc) 168
Castle Vantress
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
: Add
.
,
: Scry 2.
Land
Castle Vantress (eld) 242
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
Chord of Calling
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Chord of Calling (rav) 156
Clever Concealment
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)
Instant
Clever Concealment (onc) 43
Clever Impersonator
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Clever Impersonator (plst) KTK-34
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
Concordant Crossroads
All creatures have haste.
World Enchantment
Concordant Crossroads (2x2) 367
Confound
Counter target spell that targets a creature.
Draw a card.
Instant
Confound (plst) PLS-22
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
Creeping Renaissance
Choose a permanent type. Return all cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Creeping Renaissance (isd) 174
Crop Rotation
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Crop Rotation (ulg) 98
Curse of the Swine
Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.
Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (m3c) 179
Cursecatcher
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Cursecatcher (shm) 34
Deepchannel Mentor
Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Deepchannel Mentor (plst) SHM-35
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 (plci) 228s
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
Defend the Rider
Choose one —
• Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
• Create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater."
Instant
Defend the Rider (dft) 157
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 (c18) 85
Dispel
Counter target instant spell.
Instant
Dispel (rtr) 36
Distant Melody
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Sorcery
Distant Melody (h09) 27
Donatello's Technique
Sneak
(You may cast this spell for
if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step.)
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Donatello's Technique (tmt) 39
Drowner Initiate
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay
. If you do, target player mills two cards.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Drowner Initiate (shm) 36
Enter the Enigma
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Enter the Enigma (dsk) 52
Essence Capture
Counter target creature spell. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.
Instant
Essence Capture (neo) 52
Ethereal Usher
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Spirit
Ethereal Usher (rav) 47
Fangs of Kalonia
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature that had a +1/+1 counter put on it this way.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Fangs of Kalonia (mh3) 153
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (5ed) 369
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
Foil
You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Foil (pcy) 34
Forerunner of the Heralds
When this creature 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 this creature.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Forerunner of the Heralds (rix) 129
Galadriel, Light of Valinor
Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Add
.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• Scry 2, then draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Galadriel, Light of Valinor (ltc) 498
Grip of Amnesia
Counter target spell unless its controller exiles all cards from their graveyard.
Draw a card.
Instant
Grip of Amnesia (jud) 41
Harbinger of the Seas
Nonbasic lands are Islands.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63
Harmonize
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Harmonize (ecc) 111
Harpoon Sniper
,
: This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of Merfolk you control.
Creature - Archer Merfolk
Harpoon Sniper (lrw) 19
Hunter's Insight
Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.
Instant
Hunter's Insight (cmm) 296
Idyllic Tutor
Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (thb) 24
Inkfathom Witch
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
: Each unblocked creature has base power and toughness 4/1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Inkfathom Witch (shm) 168
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 (40k) 217★
Jade Bearer
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on another target Merfolk you control.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Jade Bearer (rix) 134
Joint Exploration
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Scry 2, then draw a card. If this spell was kicked, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Joint Exploration (dmu) 56
Judge of Currents
Whenever a Merfolk you control becomes tapped, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Judge of Currents (lrw) 22
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 (clb) 565
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.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (c15) 188
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
Tap another untapped Merfolk you control: Kumena 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.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca (rix) 162
Kumena's Speaker
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control another Merfolk or an Island.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Kumena's Speaker (xln) 196
Littjara Mirrorlake
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Littjara Mirrorlake (khm) 264
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.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Lullmage Mentor (zen) 54
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Mana Leak (brb) 41
Merchant Scroll
Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Merchant Scroll (8ed) 91
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 Secretkeeper
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper (eld) 53
Merfolk Windrobber
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Merfolk Windrobber (znr) 70
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 (plst) LRW-73
Merrow Witsniper
When this creature enters, target player mills a card.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Merrow Witsniper (mor) 40
Mindspring Merfolk
Exhaust —
,
: Draw X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on each Merfolk creature you control. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Mindspring Merfolk (dft) 51
Mirrormade
You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact or enchantment on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Mirrormade (eld) 55
Mirrorpool
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Land
Mirrorpool (pogw) 174s
Miscast
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Miscast (m21) 57
Mistcaller
Sacrifice this creature: Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Mistcaller (m19) 62
Mistway Spy
Flying
Disguise
(You may cast this card face down for
as a 2/2 creature with ward
. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, until end of turn, whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, investigate.
Creature - Merfolk Detective
Mistway Spy (mkm) 65
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Whenever you cast a green creature spell, you may search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever you cast a blue creature spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put that card into your hand.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Elf
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary (dis) 118
Mosswort Bridge
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Land
Mosswort Bridge (c21) 303
Murkfiend Liege
Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.
Creature - Horror
Murkfiend Liege (2x2) 259
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (m3c) 358
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (ddd) 17
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (aer) 40
Neoform
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Neoform (war) 206
Novijen, Heart of Progress
: Add
.
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered this turn.
Land
Novijen, Heart of Progress (dis) 175
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
Out of Bounds
Assist (Another player can pay up to
of this spell's cost.)
Counter target spell.
Instant
Out of Bounds (bbd) 38
Overwhelming Denial
Surge
(You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Overwhelming Denial (ogw) 61
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 (m3c) 363
Personal Tutor
Search your library for a sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Sorcery
Personal Tutor (cmm) 633
Planar Genesis
Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
Power Sink
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.
Instant
Power Sink (4ed) 93
Primal Vigor
If one or more tokens would be created, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
Enchantment
Primal Vigor (plst) C13-162
Prime Speaker Zegana
Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Prime Speaker Zegana (rvr) 211
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.
Instant
Quandrix Command (stx) 217
Raise the Palisade
Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Raise the Palisade (ltc) 23
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (mm2) 157
Reef Shaman
: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Reef Shaman (apc) 29
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 662
Resculpt
Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
Return of the Wildspeaker
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (lcc) 252
Return to Nature
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.
Instant
Return to Nature (eld) 173
Rewind
Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.
Instant
Rewind (usg) 93
Rishadan Dockhand
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
,
: Tap target land.
Creature - Merfolk
Rishadan Dockhand (mh2) 447
Rishkar's Expertise
Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (m3c) 411
Seahunter
,
: Search your library for a Merfolk permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Mercenary
Seahunter (nem) 41
Seedborn Muse
Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.
Creature - Spirit
Seedborn Muse (lgn) 138
Shamanic Revelation
Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.
Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (c19) 180
Shifting Woodland
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
: Add
.
Delirium —
: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 228
Shore Up
Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Shore Up (blb) 69
Simic Growth Chamber
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Simic Growth Chamber (m3c) 377
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
Slip Out the Back
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
Instant
Slip Out the Back (snc) 62
Snap
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.
Instant
Snap (woc) 110
Solve the Equation
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54
Spell Rupture
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Instant
Spell Rupture (gtc) 52
Spell Syphon
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
for each blue permanent you control.
Instant
Spell Syphon (shm) 52
Stonybrook Schoolmaster
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature token.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Stonybrook Schoolmaster (mor) 25
Summon the School
Create two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens.
Tap four untapped Merfolk you control: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery Kindred - Merfolk
Summon the School (lrw) 42
Sunder
Return all lands to their owners' hands.
Instant
Sunder (plst) USG-101
Sygg, River Cutthroat
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Sygg, River Cutthroat (shm) 176
Sygg, River Guide
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
: Target Merfolk you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Sygg, River Guide (lrw) 251
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 (cmm) 687
Temple of Mystery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Mystery (ths) 226
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
Thornwood Falls
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Thornwood Falls (tdm) 269
Thrasios, Triton Hero
: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, draw a card.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Thrasios, Triton Hero (cmr) 538
Tidal Warrior
: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Tidal Warrior (sth) 47
Tishana, Voice of Thunder
Tishana's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
When Tishana enters, draw a card for each creature you control.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Tishana, Voice of Thunder (xln) 230
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
Touch of Vitae
Until end of turn, target creature gains haste and "
: Untap this creature. Activate only once."
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Touch of Vitae (ice) 271
Traverse the Ulvenwald
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for a creature or land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Traverse the Ulvenwald (inr) 221
Triton Shorestalker
This creature can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Triton Shorestalker (jou) 56
Triton Wavebreaker
Bestow
(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
As long as this permanent is a creature, it has prowess. (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has prowess.
Creature Enchantment - Wizard Merfolk
Triton Wavebreaker (mh3) 74
Turn Aside
Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.
Instant
Turn Aside (som) 49
Unsettled Mariner
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Unsettled Mariner (mh1) 216
Unstoppable Plan
At the beginning of your end step, untap all nonland permanents you control.
Enchantment
Unstoppable Plan (dft) 382
Unwind
Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Unwind (dom) 72
Utopia Sprawl
Enchant Forest
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.
Enchantment - Aura
Utopia Sprawl (dis) 99
Vodalian Wave-Knight
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Merfolk and/or Knight you control.
Creature - Knight Merfolk
Vodalian Wave-Knight (moc) 43
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (who) 1124
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 this creature, you may reveal it. If you do, each creature you control gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Waterspout Weavers (mor) 56
Wave Goodbye
Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.
Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (lcc) 47
Willowrush Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.
Land
Willowrush Verge (dft) 375
Wizard Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchantment - Class
Wizard Class (afr) 81
Worldly Tutor
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Instant
Worldly Tutor (dmr) 185
Worldpurge
Return all permanents to their owners' hands. Each player chooses up to seven cards in their hand, then shuffles the rest into their library. Each player loses all unspent mana.
Sorcery
Worldpurge (shm) 156
Zegana, Utopian Speaker
When Zegana enters, if you control another creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card.
: 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.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Zegana, Utopian Speaker (lcc) 298

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Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
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