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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) 19

Commander

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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 (tsb) 24

Anthem

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Artifact

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Bender's Waterskin
Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Bender's Waterskin (tla) 255

Artifact

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Bounce

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Arctic Merfolk
Kicker—Return a creature you control to its owner's hand. (You may return a creature you control to its owner's hand in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
If this creature was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Merfolk
Arctic Merfolk (pls) 21

Bounce

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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

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Counters

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Scent of Brine
Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays
for each card revealed this way.
Instant
Scent of Brine (uds) 45
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
Vineshaper Mystic
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target Merfolk you control.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Vineshaper Mystic (xln) 214

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Creature

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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
River Merfolk
: This creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
Creature - Merfolk
River Merfolk (fem) 24
Rootwater Mystic
: Look at the top card of target player's library.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Rootwater Mystic (exo) 44

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Draw

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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
Clear the Mind
Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Clear the Mind (plst) RNA-34
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
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
Merfolk Branchwalker
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
Merfolk Branchwalker (j25) 688
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
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
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
Skyclave Aerialist
Flying
: Transform this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Skyclave Aerialist // Skyclave Invader (mom) 78Skyclave Aerialist // Skyclave Invader (mom) 78
Vodalian Merchant
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Merfolk
Vodalian Merchant (inv) 85
Whirlpool Rider
When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.
Creature - Merfolk
Whirlpool Rider (apc) 35

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Enchantment

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Impostor Syndrome
Whenever a nontoken creature you control deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of it, except it isn't legendary.
Enchantment
Impostor Syndrome (spm) 34

Enchantment

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Evasion

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Cloak of Mists
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Enchantment - Aura
Cloak of Mists (plst) GS1-13
Deepchannel Mentor
Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Deepchannel Mentor (plst) SHM-35
Expedition Lookout
Defender
As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, this creature can attack as though it didn't have defender and it can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Expedition Lookout (mom) 56
Gaea's Skyfolk
Flying
Creature - Elf Merfolk
Gaea's Skyfolk (apc) 101
Ghostform
Up to two target creatures can't be blocked this turn.
Sorcery
Ghostform (m19) 58
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
Wingspan Stride
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.
Enchantment - Aura
Wingspan Stride (tdm) 66

Evasion

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Instant

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Prishe's Wanderings
Search your library for a basic land card or Town card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When you search your library this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Instant
Prishe's Wanderings (fin) 193

Instant

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Land

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Ba Sing Se
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
: Add
.
,
: Earthbend 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
Land
Ba Sing Se (tla) 266
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 (eoe) 251
Captivating Cave
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Cave
Captivating Cave (lci) 268
Castle Garenbrig
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
: Add
.
,
: Add six
. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.
Land
Castle Garenbrig (plst) ELD-240
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (tla) 286
Forgotten Monument
: Add
.
Other Caves you control have "
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color."
Land - Cave
Forgotten Monument (lci) 272
Hedge Maze
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Forest
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
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 (m3c) 348
Hidden Nursery
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 Nursery (m3c) 349
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tla) 283
Kishla Village
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Land
Kishla Village (tdm) 259
Thornwood Falls
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Thornwood Falls (tdm) 269

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Protection

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Dispersal Shield
Counter target spell if its mana value is less than or equal to the greatest mana value among permanents you control.
Instant
Dispersal Shield (scg) 33
Fog
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Instant
Fog (plst) EMA-167
Reality Ripple
Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Instant
Reality Ripple (mir) 87
Treefolk Umbra
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
Enchantment - Aura
Treefolk Umbra (mh1) 185

Protection

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Pump

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Hunter's Blowgun
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equipped creature has deathtouch during your turn. Otherwise, it has reach.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Hunter's Blowgun (lci) 255

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Ramp

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Cosmium Confluence
Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Search your library for a Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
• Put three +1/+1 counters on a Cave you control. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.
• Destroy target enchantment.
Sorcery
Cosmium Confluence (lci) 181
Glimpse the Core
Choose one —
• Search your library for a basic Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
• Return target Cave card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Glimpse the Core (lci) 186
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
Open the Gates
Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
Sea Scryer
: Add
.
,
: Add
.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Sea Scryer (plst) MIR-90
Simic Locket
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Simic Locket (plst) RNA-240
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
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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Walk with the Ancestors
Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Discover 4. (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.)
Sorcery
Walk with the Ancestors (lci) 218

Recursion

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Removal

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Confounding Riddle
Choose one —
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Confounding Riddle (lci) 50
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
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 (fdn) 507
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Instant
Essence Scatter (fdn) 153
Evasive Action
Domain — Counter target spell unless its controller pays
for each basic land type among lands you control.
Instant
Evasive Action (dde) 50
Gaseous Form
Enchant creature
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Gaseous Form (plst) EMA-51
Hurl into History
Counter target artifact or creature spell. Discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value 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.)
Instant
Hurl into History (lci) 59
Hydroblast
Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's red.
• Destroy target permanent if it's red.
Instant
Hydroblast (5ed) 94
Karn's Temporal Sundering
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Exile Karn's Temporal Sundering.
Legendary Sorcery
Karn's Temporal Sundering (dom) 55
Malamet Battle Glyph
Choose target creature you control and target creature you don't control. If the creature you control entered this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then those creatures fight each other.
Sorcery
Malamet Battle Glyph (lci) 198
Neutralize
Counter target spell.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Neutralize (j22) 327
Out of Air
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets a creature spell.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Out of Air (lci) 69
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
Ram Through
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.
Instant
Ram Through (cmm) 314
Return to Nature
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.
Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309
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) 335
Venomous Breath
Choose target creature. At this turn's next end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.
Instant
Venomous Breath (ice) 273

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Sorcery

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Pull Through the Weft
Return up to two target nonland permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand, then return up to two target land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Pull Through the Weft (eoe) 202

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Stax

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Chill
Red spells cost
more to cast.
Enchantment
Chill (6ed) 60

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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
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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Sudden Spinnerets
Target creature gets +1/+3 until end of turn. Put a reach counter on it. Untap it.
Instant
Sudden Spinnerets (plst) IKO-171
Vitalize
Untap all creatures you control.
Instant
Vitalize (6ed) 265

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