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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) 29

Commander

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Anthem

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Merfolk Mistbinder
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Merfolk Mistbinder (lcc) 276
Merfolk Sovereign
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Merfolk Noble
Merfolk Sovereign (ddt) 11
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

Anthem

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Artifact

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Gathering Stone
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
When this artifact enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.
Artifact
Gathering Stone (ecl) 257

Artifact

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Clones

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Naga Fleshcrafter
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.
Renew —
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Shapeshifter Snake
Naga Fleshcrafter (tdm) 52

Clones

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Copy

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Jackal, Genius Geneticist
Trample
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value equal to Jackal's power, copy that spell, except the copy isn't legendary. Then put a +1/+1 counter on Jackal. (The copy becomes a token.)
Legendary Creature - Human Scientist Villain
Jackal, Genius Geneticist (spm) 131

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Counters

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Brineborn Cutthroat
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Merfolk Pirate
Brineborn Cutthroat (fdn) 152
Jade Bearer
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on another target Merfolk you control.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Jade Bearer (rix) 134
Quandrix Pledgemage
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Druid Merfolk
Quandrix Pledgemage (stx) 219
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
Spell Pierce
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Spell Pierce (dft) 64
Winterthorn Blessing
Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Tap up to one target creature you don't control, and that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Winterthorn Blessing (mid) 251

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Creature

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Gravelgill Scoundrel
Vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap another untapped creature you control. If you do, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Gravelgill Scoundrel (ecl) 53
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 (lcc) 274
Merfolk Seastalkers
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
: Tap target creature without flying.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Merfolk Seastalkers (plst) ZEN-55
Omni-Changeling
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
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.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Omni-Changeling (ecl) 62
Silvergill Mentor
As an additional cost to cast this spell, behold a Merfolk or pay
. (To behold a Merfolk, choose a Merfolk you control or reveal a Merfolk card from your hand.)
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white and blue Merfolk creature token.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Silvergill Mentor (ecl) 69
Silvergill Peddler
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Merfolk Citizen
Silvergill Peddler (ecl) 70
Virulent Emissary
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Assassin
Virulent Emissary (ecl) 202
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
Wind Strider
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Wind Strider (xln) 88

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Cycling

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Waxen Shapethief
Flash
You may have this creature enter as a copy of an artifact or creature you control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Shapeshifter
Waxen Shapethief (dft) 74

Cycling

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Draw

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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
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
Enter the Enigma
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Enter the Enigma (dsk) 52
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
Harmonized Crescendo
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.)
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Instant
Harmonized Crescendo (ecl) 408
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
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
−1: Untap target permanent.
Legendary Planeswalker - Kiora
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (war) 232
Make Your Own Luck
Look at the top three cards of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. If you do, it becomes plotted. Put the rest into your hand. (You may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Make Your Own Luck (otj) 218
Reach for the Sky
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+2 and has reach.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchantment - Aura
Reach for the Sky (otj) 178
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
Soothsayer Adept
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Soothsayer Adept (stx) 55
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 (fdn) 247

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Evasion

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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 (xln) 70
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (blc) 177

Evasion

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Finisher

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Sita Varma, Masked Racer
Exhaust —
: Put X +1/+1 counters on Sita Varma. Then you may have the base power and toughness of each other creature you control become equal to Sita Varma's power until end of turn. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Sita Varma, Masked Racer (dft) 223

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Land

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Eclipsed Realms
As this land enters, choose Elemental, Elf, Faerie, Giant, Goblin, Kithkin, Merfolk, or Treefolk.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a source of the chosen type.
Land
Eclipsed Realms (ecl) 263
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (drc) 153
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ecl) 278
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ecl) 283
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ecl) 283
Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Town
Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway (fin) 281
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (ecl) 275
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (ecl) 280
Lakeside Shack
This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Lakeside Shack (dsk) 262
Lush Oasis
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
: Add
or
.
Land - Desert
Lush Oasis (m3c) 356
Meditation Pools
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Meditation Pools (tla) 272
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
Restless Vinestalk
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.
Land
Restless Vinestalk (woe) 307
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 (ecc) 62
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 (clu) 247
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (fdn) 695
Tangled Islet
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Tangled Islet (dsc) 306
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 (m20) 255
Thornwood Falls
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Thornwood Falls (tdm) 269
Thriving Grove
This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than green.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land
Thriving Grove (ecc) 171
Willowrush Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.
Land
Willowrush Verge (dft) 270
Woodland Stream
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Stream (ltc) 347

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Mill

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Charix, the Raging Isle
Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost
more to cast.
: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Legendary Creature - Crab Leviathan
Charix, the Raging Isle (znr) 49

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Proliferate

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Evolution Sage
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Creature - Elf Druid
Evolution Sage (plst) WAR-159
Inexorable Tide
Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Enchantment
Inexorable Tide (som) 35

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Protection

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Fog of War
You gain 1 life for each creature on the battlefield. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures with power 3 or less.
Instant
Fog of War (bro) 180
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

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (m3c) 283
Careful Cultivation
Enchant artifact or creature
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +1/+3 and has reach and "
: Add
."
Channel —
, Discard this card: Create a 1/1 green Human Monk creature token with "
: Add
."
Enchantment - Aura
Careful Cultivation (woc) 122
Nature's Embrace
Enchant creature or land
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +2/+2.
As long as enchanted permanent is a land, it has "
: Add two mana of any one color."
Enchantment - Aura
Nature's Embrace (vow) 211
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
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (ecc) 57
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
Viewpoint Synchronization
Freerunning
(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Search your library for up to three basic land cards and reveal them. Put two of them onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Viewpoint Synchronization (acr) 43
Volshe Tideturner
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell or a kicked spell.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Volshe Tideturner (dmu) 77

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Recursion

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Auroral Procession
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Auroral Procession (tdm) 169

Recursion

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Removal

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Crashing Tide
This spell has flash as long as you control a Merfolk.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Crashing Tide (rix) 34
Decisive Denial
Choose one —
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Decisive Denial (otp) 42
Essence Capture
Counter target creature spell. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.
Instant
Essence Capture (otp) 10
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Instant
Essence Scatter (fdn) 153
Floodpits Drowner
Flash
Vigilance
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it.
,
: Shuffle this creature and target creature with a stun counter on it into their owners' libraries.
Creature - Merfolk
Floodpits Drowner (dsk) 59
Reality Shift
Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Instant
Reality Shift (ecc) 68
Run Away Together
Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.
Instant
Run Away Together (ecl) 67
Seal of Primordium
Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Enchantment
Seal of Primordium (tsr) 228
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
Surgespanner
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may pay
. If you do, return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Surgespanner (lcc) 174
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
Wave Goodbye
Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.
Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (tmc) 46

Removal

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Sorcery

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Wanderwine Farewell
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.)
Return one or two target nonland permanents to their owners' hands. Then if you control a Merfolk, create a 1/1 white and blue Merfolk creature token for each permanent returned to its owner's hand this way.
Sorcery Kindred - Merfolk
Wanderwine Farewell (ecl) 83

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Tokens

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Aquatic Incursion
When this enchantment enters, create two 1/1 blue Merfolk creature tokens with hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
: Target Merfolk can't be blocked this turn.
Enchantment
Aquatic Incursion (rix) 32
Combine Chrysalis
Creature tokens you control have flying.
,
, Sacrifice a token: Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Combine Chrysalis (moc) 319
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

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