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Commander

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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
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Bounce

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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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Bounce

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Counters

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Jade Guardian
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Merfolk you control.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Jade Guardian (xln) 194
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Jungle Delver
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Jungle Delver (j25) 678
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Nyxborn Hydra
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.)
Reach, trample
This permanent enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura and has reach and trample.
Creature Enchantment - Hydra
Nyxborn Hydra (mh3) 164
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Reject
Counter target creature or planeswalker spell unless its controller pays
. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
Reject (stx) 50
Color tag templates(None)
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River Heralds' Boon
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Merfolk.
Instant
River Heralds' Boon (xln) 204
Color tag templates(None)
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Creature

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Deeproot Warrior
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Deeproot Warrior (xln) 186
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Giltgrove Stalker
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Giltgrove Stalker (rix) 131
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Headwater Sentries
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Headwater Sentries (xln) 58
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Paperfin Rascal
When this creature enters, clash with an opponent. If you win, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Paperfin Rascal (lrw) 77
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Timbermaw Larva
Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Forest you control.
Creature - Beast
Timbermaw Larva (zen) 189
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Wanderwine Distracter
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Wanderwine Distracter (ecl) 82
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Draw

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Ixalli's Diviner
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 - Human Druid
Ixalli's Diviner (j25) 675
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Merfolk Looter
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Merfolk Looter (afc) 86
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Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (tdc) 158
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Pathfinding Axejaw
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 - Dinosaur
Pathfinding Axejaw (lci) 206
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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
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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
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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
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Tishana's Wayfinder
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
Tishana's Wayfinder (xln) 211
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Evasion

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Fishliver Oil
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Enchantment - Aura
Fishliver Oil (9ed) 77
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Flight
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
Enchantment - Aura
Flight (m12) 53
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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
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Mist-Cloaked Herald
This creature can't be blocked.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Mist-Cloaked Herald (m19) 310
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Shaper Apprentice
This creature has flying as long as you control another Merfolk.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Shaper Apprentice (j22) 346
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Stealth Mission
Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. That creature can't be blocked this turn.
Sorcery
Stealth Mission (war) 70
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Streambed Aquitects
: Target Merfolk creature gets +1/+1 and gains islandwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Streambed Aquitects (ddt) 18
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Tideshaper Mystic
: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn. Activate only during your turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tideshaper Mystic (lrw) 93
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Evasion

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Land

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Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (tmt) 319
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Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tmt) 316
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Land

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Landfall

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Adventuring Gear
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Adventuring Gear (fdn) 249
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Canopy Baloth
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Creature - Beast
Canopy Baloth (j25) 643
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Landfall

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Mill

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Merfolk Secretkeeper
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper (eld) 284
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Mill

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Proliferate

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Contentious Plan
Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Contentious Plan (war) 46
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Courage in Crisis
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Sorcery
Courage in Crisis (cmm) 278
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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
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Silvergill Douser
: Target creature gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Merfolk and/or Faeries you control.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Silvergill Douser (plst) LRW-87
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Withstand Death
Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it still dies.)
Instant
Withstand Death (som) 134
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Woodcutter's Grit
Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Woodcutter's Grit (emn) 179
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Pump

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Giant Growth
Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Instant
Giant Growth (fdn) 223
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Might of the Masses
Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature you control.
Instant
Might of the Masses (j25) 689
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Wings of Velis Vel
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Until end of turn, target creature has base power and toughness 4/4, gains all creature types, and gains flying.
Instant Kindred - Shapeshifter
Wings of Velis Vel (mm2) 70
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Ramp

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Ainok Guide
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
• Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Creature - Scout Dog
Ainok Guide (j25) 625
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Embodiment of Spring
,
, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Elemental
Embodiment of Spring (plst) KTK-39
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Go Forth
Choose one —
• Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Instant
Go Forth (j25) 20
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$0.59 $0.26
Horizon Spellbomb
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Artifact
Horizon Spellbomb (som) 165
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$0.35 $0.08
Leaf Gilder
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Leaf Gilder (jmp) 408
Color tag templates(None)
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Siren Lookout
Flying
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 - Pirate Siren
Siren Lookout (xln) 78
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Ramp

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Recursion

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Reclaim
Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Instant
Reclaim (plst) ORI-195
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Recursion

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Removal

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Band Together
Up to two target creatures you control each deal damage equal to their power to another target creature.
Instant
Band Together (j25) 634
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Brackish Blunder
Return target creature to its owner's hand. If it was tapped, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Instant
Brackish Blunder (lci) 46
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Cancel
Counter target spell.
Instant
Cancel (fdn) 505
Color tag templates(None)
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Claustrophobia
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Enchantment - Aura
Claustrophobia (plst) DDT-3
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Didn't Say Please
Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.
Instant
Didn't Say Please (eld) 42
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Enchantment Alteration
Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.
Instant
Enchantment Alteration (usg) 72
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Exclude
Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.
Instant
Exclude (cmm) 90
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Hunt the Weak
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Sorcery
Hunt the Weak (plst) RIX-133
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Kasmina's Transmutation
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.
Enchantment - Aura
Kasmina's Transmutation (rvr) 46
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Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (tmt) 47
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Out of Air
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets a creature spell.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Out of Air (lci) 69
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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
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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 (plst) MIR-83
Color tag templates(None)
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Sleep Paralysis
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Enchantment - Aura
Sleep Paralysis (m20) 75
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Utter Insignificance
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.
: Exile enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Utter Insignificance (mh3) 78
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Watertrap Weaver
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Watertrap Weaver (j22) 370
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$0.35 $0.18

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Tokens

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Jungleborn Pioneer
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Jungleborn Pioneer (plst) RIX-137
Color tag templates(None)
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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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.09

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