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Amass

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49
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)
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Artifact

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Aether Vial
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.
Artifact
Aether Vial (dst) 91
Color tag templates(None)
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Creature

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Harbinger of the Seas
Nonbasic lands are Islands.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.25
Judge of Currents
Whenever a Merfolk you control becomes tapped, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Judge of Currents (lrw) 22
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.23
Rishadan Dockhand
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
,
: Tap target land.
Creature - Merfolk
Rishadan Dockhand (mh2) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.17

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Draw

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Silvergill Adept
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Merfolk card from your hand or pay
.
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Silvergill Adept (rix) 53
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.36
Sygg, River Cutthroat
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Sygg, River Cutthroat (shm) 176
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $13.02

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Interaction

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Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (nph) 57
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $3.33
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.43
Spell Pierce
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Spell Pierce (neo) 80
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.31
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) 81
Color tag templates(None)
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Island synergy

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Spreading Seas
Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land is an Island.
Enchantment - Aura
Spreading Seas (zen) 70
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.22
Tide Shaper
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target land becomes an Island for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tide Shaper (mh2) 394
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Tide Shaper
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target land becomes an Island for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Tide Shaper (mh2) 72
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Land

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Floodfarm Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.
Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Color tag templates(None)
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Gloomlake Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.
Land
Gloomlake Verge (pdsk) 260p
Color tag templates(None)
$16.99 $15.13
Island
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (m12) 234
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Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (m12) 235
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Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (m12) 236
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Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (m12) 237
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Mutavault
: Add
.
: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
Land
Mutavault (mor) 148
Color tag templates(None)
$7.99 $8.83
Wanderwine Hub
As this land enters, you may reveal a Merfolk card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Wanderwine Hub (lrw) 280
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$1.99 $1.92

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Lord

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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 (3ed) 64
Color tag templates(None)
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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 (4ed) 82
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Master of the Pearl Trident
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Creature - Merfolk
Master of the Pearl Trident (m13) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $1.57
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 (lrw) 74
Color tag templates(None)
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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
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.40

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Protection

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Svyelun of Sea and Sky
Svyelun has indestructible as long as you control at least two other Merfolk.
Whenever Svyelun attacks, draw a card.
Other Merfolk you control have ward
. (Whenever another Merfolk you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Legendary Creature - Merfolk God
Svyelun of Sea and Sky (mh2) 69
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.57
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
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.69
Unsettled Mariner
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Unsettled Mariner (mh1) 216
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Sideboard

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Coralhelm Commander
Level up
(
: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-3
3/3
Flying
LEVEL 4+
4/4
Flying
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Creature - Soldier Merfolk
Coralhelm Commander (roe) 57
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.41
Judge of Currents
Whenever a Merfolk you control becomes tapped, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Judge of Currents (lrw) 22
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.23
Merfolk Sovereign
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Merfolk Noble
Merfolk Sovereign (m11) 65
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.31
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
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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 (lrw) 74
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Puresight Merrow
,
: Look at the top card of your library. You may exile that card. (
is the untap symbol.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Puresight Merrow (shm) 146
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$0.35 $0.34
Rishadan Dockhand
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
,
: Tap target land.
Creature - Merfolk
Rishadan Dockhand (mh2) 391
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.26
Silvergill Adept
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Merfolk card from your hand or pay
.
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Silvergill Adept (lrw) 86
Color tag templates(None)
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Spreading Seas
Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land is an Island.
Enchantment - Aura
Spreading Seas (wot) 26
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
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
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$$ - Lands

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Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $7.59
Mutavault
: Add
.
: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
Land
Mutavault (pgpx) 2018
Color tag templates(None)
$7.49 $5.28

$$ - Lands

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don't have

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Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.56
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 (4ed) 82
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $5.87
Master of the Pearl Trident
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Creature - Merfolk
Master of the Pearl Trident (m13) 59
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $1.57
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
: Add
.
,
: Untap target legendary permanent.
Legendary Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (chk) 279
Color tag templates(None)
$69.99 $62.54
Otawara, Soaring City
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Color tag templates(None)
$37.99 $30.82
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
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.40

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Maybeboard

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Aquitect's Will
Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.
Sorcery Kindred - Merfolk
Aquitect's Will (lrw) 52
Color tag templates(None)
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Cursecatcher
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Cursecatcher (shm) 34
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.56
Harbinger of the Tides
You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay
more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Tides (ori) 58
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.39
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner (jmp) 154
Color tag templates(None)
$7.49 $5.75
Merfolk Trickster
Flash
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. It loses all abilities until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Merfolk Trickster (dom) 56
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.47
Merrow Commerce
At the beginning of your end step, untap all Merfolk you control.
Enchantment Kindred - Merfolk
Merrow Commerce (lrw) 72
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $18.97
Mindspring Merfolk
Exhaust —
,
: Draw X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on each Merfolk creature you control. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Mindspring Merfolk (dft) 51
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.46
Mistcaller
Sacrifice this creature: Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Mistcaller (m19) 62
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.51
Stonybrook Banneret
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Merfolk spells and Wizard spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Stonybrook Banneret (mor) 51
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.74
Thieving Skydiver
Kicker
. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to this creature.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Thieving Skydiver (znr) 85
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.22

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questionable

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Cosi's Trickster
Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Cosi's Trickster (zen) 45
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.44
Inkfathom Infiltrator
This creature can't block and can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Inkfathom Infiltrator (shm) 167
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.48
Inkfathom Witch
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
: Each unblocked creature has base power and toughness 4/1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Inkfathom Witch (ncc) 342
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.20
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 (xln) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.31
Lullmage Mentor
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.
Tap seven untapped Merfolk you control: Counter target spell.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Lullmage Mentor (zen) 54
Color tag templates(None)
$6.99 $4.79
Stonybrook Schoolmaster
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature token.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Stonybrook Schoolmaster (mor) 25
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.34
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.33

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Tokens & Extras

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Merfolk Wizard
Creature Token - Wizard Merfolk
Merfolk Wizard (tlrw) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.34

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Deck stats

4 pips - 4 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
39 pips - 31 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
8 pips - 4 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 0 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
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