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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99
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) 19

Commander

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Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $59.99
Roaming Throne
Ward

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Roaming Throne (lci) 258

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Counterspell

Qty: 3 Price: $1.49
Ertai's Scorn
This spell costs
less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Ertai's Scorn (dmu) 48
Refute
Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.
Instant
Refute (fdn) 48
Reverse the Polarity
Choose one —
• Counter all other spells.
• Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
• Creatures can't be blocked this turn.
Instant
Reverse the Polarity (who) 54

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Draw

Qty: 11 Price: $24.45
Ancestral Reminiscence
Draw three cards, then discard a card.
Sorcery
Ancestral Reminiscence (lci) 45
Bewildering Blizzard
Draw three cards. Creatures your opponents control get -3/-0 until end of turn.
Instant
Bewildering Blizzard (tdm) 38
Cultivator Colossus
Trample
Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.
Creature - Beast Plant
Cultivator Colossus (inr) 409
Focus the Mind
This spell costs
less to cast if you've cast another spell this turn.
Draw three cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Focus the Mind (tdm) 45
Garruk's Uprising
When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (blc) 219
Impulse
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Impulse (dmr) 56
Loot, Exuberant Explorer
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
,
: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.
Legendary Creature - Beast Noble
Loot, Exuberant Explorer (fdn) 106
Shapers of Nature
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Shapers of Nature (xln) 228
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 (dsc) 235
Vanquisher's Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.
Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (lcc) 316
Vivisurgeon's Insight
Draw three cards. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Sorcery
Vivisurgeon's Insight (one) 77

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Evasion

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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
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
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 (j22) 339
Shaper Apprentice
This creature has flying as long as you control another Merfolk.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Shaper Apprentice (j22) 346
Storm Sculptor
This creature can't be blocked.
When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Storm Sculptor (j22) 355

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Explore engine

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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
Glowcap Lantern
Equipped creature has "You may look at the top card of your library any time" and "Whenever this creature attacks, 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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Glowcap Lantern (lci) 187
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
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
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

Explore engine

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Explore payoff

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Chocobo Racetrack
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 2/2 green Bird creature token with "Whenever a land you control enters, this token gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
Artifact
Chocobo Racetrack (fin) 179
Mossborn Hydra
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - Elemental Hydra
Mossborn Hydra (fdn) 107
Tatyova, Steward of Tides
Land creatures you control have flying.
Whenever a land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands, up to one target land you control becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.
Legendary Creature - Druid Merfolk
Tatyova, Steward of Tides (dmu) 321
Tifa Lockhart
Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double Tifa Lockhart's power until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Monk
Tifa Lockhart (fin) 206
Waker of the Wilds
: Put X +1/+1 counters on target land you control. That land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Waker of the Wilds (znc) 86
Wildgrowth Walker
Whenever a creature you control explores, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 3 life.
Creature - Elemental
Wildgrowth Walker (xln) 216

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Land

Qty: 38 Price: $19.68
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (tdc) 358
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (spm) 198
Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Town
Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway (fin) 281
Hidden Cataract
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Land - Cave
Hidden Cataract (lci) 273
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (spm) 195
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 (tdc) 404
The Hunter Maze
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land - Sphere
The Hunter Maze (one) 253
The Surgical Bay
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land - Sphere
The Surgical Bay (one) 260
Thornwood Falls
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Thornwood Falls (tdm) 269
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 (lcc) 366
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 (drc) 183
Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth (fin) 314

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Merfolk go exploring

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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
Jadelight Ranger
When this creature enters, it 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk Ranger
Jadelight Ranger (j25) 676
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) 382
River Herald Guide
Vigilance
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 Guide (lci) 209
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
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

Merfolk go exploring

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More Counters

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Doubling Season
If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.
Enchantment
Doubling Season (fdn) 216
Sazh Katzroy
When Sazh Katzroy enters, you may search your library for a Bird or basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever Sazh Katzroy attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.
Legendary Creature - Human Pilot
Sazh Katzroy (fin) 199
The Earth Crystal
Green spells you cast cost
less to cast.
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.
,
: Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.
Legendary Artifact
The Earth Crystal (fin) 184

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Protection

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Blinding Fog
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures this turn. Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Blinding Fog (xln) 177
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (who) 233
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 (fdn) 226
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
Lull
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Lull (dmr) 169

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Ramp

Qty: 3 Price: $18.83
Growing Rites of Itlimoc
When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.
Legendary Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191
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) 306
Spelunking
When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life.
Lands you control enter untapped.
Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213

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Removal

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Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Cankerbloom
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Creature - Fungus Phyrexian
Cankerbloom (one) 161
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
Eaten by Piranhas
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other colors, card types, and creature types.)
Enchantment - Aura
Eaten by Piranhas (lci) 54
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
Reclamation Sage
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Reclamation Sage (fdn) 231
Summon: Leviathan
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Return each creature that isn't a Kraken, Leviathan, Merfolk, Octopus, or Serpent to its owner's hand.
II, III — Until end of turn, whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Merfolk, Octopus, or Serpent attacks, draw a card.
Ward
Creature Enchantment - Saga Leviathan
Summon: Leviathan (fin) 77
Tempest Caller
When this creature enters, tap all creatures target opponent controls.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tempest Caller (plst) XLN-86
The Phasing of Zhalfir
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control this Saga.
III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.
Enchantment - Saga
The Phasing of Zhalfir (dmu) 59
Witness Protection
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)
Enchantment - Aura
Witness Protection (fdn) 168

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Tribal

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Arcane Adaptation
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Arcane Adaptation (plst) XLN-46
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
Unnatural Growth
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (inr) 223

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