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Commander

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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
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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 (30a) 359
Color tag templates(None)
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Merrow Reejerey
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.
Creature - Soldier Merfolk
Merrow Reejerey (lcc) 165
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Burn

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Psychosis Crawler
Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Psychosis Crawler (moc) 371
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$1.29 $0.55

Burn

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Clones

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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
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$3.49 $2.21

Clones

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Copy

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Swarm Intelligence
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Enchantment
Swarm Intelligence (hou) 50
Color tag templates(None)
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Creature

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Coral Fighters
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, look at the top card of defending player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
Creature - Soldier Merfolk
Coral Fighters (mir) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
Rootwater Mystic
: Look at the top card of target player's library.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Rootwater Mystic (exo) 44
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$0.35 $0.12

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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 (cst) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $1.30
Curiosity
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
Enchantment - Aura
Curiosity (isd) 49
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.74
Deep Analysis
Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—
, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Deep Analysis (dmr) 46
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$0.35 $0.15
Dream Cache
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.
Sorcery
Dream Cache (tmp) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.18
Fact or Fiction
Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Instant
Fact or Fiction (plst) MH1-50
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.16
Fallowsage
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Fallowsage (lrw) 63
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.40
Forgotten Creation
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.
Creature - Horror Zombie
Forgotten Creation (drc) 77
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.33
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
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$1.49 $0.66
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (pwar) 54p
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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 (who) 217
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$3.49 $1.66
River Kelpie
Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Creature - Beast
River Kelpie (tdc) 166
Color tag templates(None)
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Secret Rendezvous
You and target opponent each draw three cards.
Sorcery
Secret Rendezvous (fic) 253
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.34
Secrets of the Dead
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (dka) 48
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Sift
Draw three cards, then discard a card.
Sorcery
Sift (10e) 108
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$0.35 $0.04
Think Twice
Draw a card.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Think Twice (otc) 119
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Tolarian Winds
Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.
Instant
Tolarian Winds (7ed) 105
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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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$0.39 $0.32

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Evasion

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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 (lrw) 91
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$0.35 $0.17
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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Finisher

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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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$14.99 $16.82

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Land

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Azorius Chancery
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Azorius Chancery (c16) 282
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.17
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (soc) 129
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.36
Emergence Zone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
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$4.99 $4.39
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (ncc) 400
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$0.49 $0.21
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (dsk) 273
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$1.29 $0.52
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 (soc) 393
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$0.35 $0.27
Plains
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (stx) 367
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$0.49 $0.09
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (scd) 314
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$0.79 $0.25
Study Hall
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.
Land
Study Hall (soc) 407
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
Tranquil Cove
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Tranquil Cove (ema) 247
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$0.35 $0.05
Vivid Creek
This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it.
: Add
.
, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Vivid Creek (cmd) 294
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.24

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Lifegain

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Judge of Currents
Whenever a Merfolk you control becomes tapped, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Judge of Currents (lrw) 22
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$0.35 $0.21

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Mill

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Drowner of Secrets
Tap an untapped Merfolk you control: Target player mills a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Drowner of Secrets (lrw) 58
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$0.35 $0.36

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Pingers

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Rootwater Hunter
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
Creature - Merfolk
Rootwater Hunter (tmp) 82
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$0.35 $0.21

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Protection

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Ghostly Prison
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (soc) 146
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$6.99 $3.84
Mandate of Peace
Cast this spell only during combat.
Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.
End the combat phase. (Remove all attackers and blockers from combat. Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this spell.)
Instant
Mandate of Peace (c19) 4
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$1.99 $2.04
Prismatic Strands
Prevent all damage that sources of the color of your choice would deal this turn.
Flashback—Tap an untapped white creature you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Prismatic Strands (plst) JUD-18
Color tag templates(None)
$8.99 $5.50
Reverse Damage
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.
Instant
Reverse Damage (5ed) 55
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.38
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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$0.35 $0.12

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Ramp

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Azorius Locket
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Azorius Locket (voc) 160
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.19
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (tdc) 312
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.23
Jace's Sanctum
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.
Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (ori) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.71
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $1.19
Springleaf Drum
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Springleaf Drum (ecl) 260
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.34

Ramp

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Recursion

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Mission Briefing
Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To 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.)
Instant
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.37
Sevinne's Reclamation
Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (soc) 170
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.36
Spellweaver Volute
Enchant instant card in a graveyard
Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, copy the enchanted instant card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, exile the enchanted card and attach this Aura to another instant card in a graveyard.
Enchantment - Aura
Spellweaver Volute (fut) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.08

Recursion

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Removal

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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (brb) 15
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $2.13
Divine Offering
Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.
Instant
Divine Offering (mbs) 5
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.08
Divine Reckoning
Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Divine Reckoning (c17) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $0.64
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (drc) 65
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.29
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
Leadership Vacuum
Target player returns each commander they control from the battlefield to the command zone.
Draw a card.
Instant
Leadership Vacuum (c19) 9
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.59
Mass Diminish
Until your next turn, creatures target player controls have base power and toughness 1/1.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Mass Diminish (c19) 10
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $1.63
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (m11) 68
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.16
No Escape
Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Scry 1.
Instant
No Escape (j22) 328
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.12
Ray of Distortion
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Ray of Distortion (c19) 72
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.07
Unwind
Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Unwind (dom) 72
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $1.06

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Tokens

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Murmuring Mystic
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.
Creature - Human Wizard
Murmuring Mystic (c20) 118
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.33
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30
Talrand, Sky Summoner
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Talrand, Sky Summoner (cmm) 124
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$0.99 $0.35

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Tutor

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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 (lrw) 73
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $2.64
Quiet Speculation
Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.
Sorcery
Quiet Speculation (ema) 68
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $0.52

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Untap

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Dramatic Reversal
Untap all nonland permanents you control.
Instant
Dramatic Reversal (tle) 158
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.40
Stonybrook Angler
,
: You may tap or untap target creature.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Stonybrook Angler (lrw) 90
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.16

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Deck Info

Deck stats

20 pips - 14 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
55 pips - 44 cards
29 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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