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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

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Counters

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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
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
Hardened Scales
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Enchantment
Hardened Scales (lcc) 243
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) 403
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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Creature

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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
Harbinger of the Seas
Nonbasic lands are Islands.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 63
Riptide Pilferer
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Riptide Pilferer (tsr) 83

Creature

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Draw

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Bident of Thassa
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
,
: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (lcc) 146
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 (otc) 94
For the Ancestors
Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
For the Ancestors (cmm) 740
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 632
Jadelight Ranger
When this creature enters, it 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk Ranger
Jadelight Ranger (plst) RIX-136
Sage of the Falls
Whenever this creature or another non-Human creature you control enters, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Sage of the Falls (j22) 340
Scroll Thief
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Scroll Thief (plst) DDT-17
Seafloor Oracle
Whenever a Merfolk you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Seafloor Oracle (lcc) 170
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 (lcc) 175
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 (lcc) 290
Thassa's Oracle
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73

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Evasion

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Favor of the Overbeing
Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.
As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Enchantment - Aura
Favor of the Overbeing (eve) 151
Herald of Secret Streams
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Herald of Secret Streams (lcc) 158
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
Mist-Cloaked Herald
This creature can't be blocked.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Mist-Cloaked Herald (rix) 43
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 (j22) 339
Shaper Apprentice
This creature has flying as long as you control another Merfolk.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Shaper Apprentice (j22) 346
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
Triton Shorestalker
This creature can't be blocked.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Triton Shorestalker (otc) 121

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Finisher

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Time Warp
Target player takes an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery
Time Warp (sta) 22

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Land

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Boseiju, Who Endures
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 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 (rvr) 275
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (otj) 286
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (otj) 280
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (mkc) 276
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 (otc) 310
Quandrix Campus
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Quandrix Campus (stx) 271
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) 261
Rimewood Falls
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Snow Land - Island Forest
Rimewood Falls (khm) 266
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Tanglepool Bridge
This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
: Add
or
.
Artifact Land
Tanglepool Bridge (mh2) 257
Thornwood Falls
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Thornwood Falls (mom) 274
Vineglimmer Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (lcc) 368

Land

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Proliferate

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Experimental Augury
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Instant
Experimental Augury (one) 49

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Protection

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Downsize
Target creature you don't control gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Downsize (rvr) 41
Gaea's Gift
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains reach, trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Gaea's Gift (bro) 182
Singer of Swift Rivers
Flash
When this creature enters, put a shield counter on another target creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
You may cast Merfolk spells as though they had flash.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
Singer of Swift Rivers (lcc) 98
Swift Warden
Flash
When this creature enters, target Merfolk you control gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Swift Warden (rix) 146
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (otc) 268
Tamiyo's Safekeeping
Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

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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 (otc) 252
Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (sta) 51
Deeproot Wayfinder
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, surveil 1, then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Deeproot Wayfinder (mom) 184
Explore
You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Explore (otc) 192
Explorer's Scope
Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Explorer's Scope (cmm) 380
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (mkc) 232
Simic Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Simic Signet (clu) 228
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Strixhaven Stadium
: Add
. Put a point counter on this artifact.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from this artifact.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on this artifact. Then if it has ten or more point counters on it, remove them all and that player loses the game.
Artifact
Strixhaven Stadium (stx) 259
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
Virtue of Strength
If you tap a basic land for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.
Enchantment
Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth (woe) 284

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Removal

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Boing!
Return target creature to its owner's hand, then roll a six-sided die. If the result is 3 or less, scry a number of cards equal to the result.
Instant
Boing! (unf) 40
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Recalibrate
Return target creature to its owner's hand. If you've discarded a card this turn, draw a card.
Instant
Recalibrate (mh2) 57
Run Away Together
Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.
Instant
Run Away Together (woc) 108
Select for Inspection
Return target tapped creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Instant
Select for Inspection (kld) 63
Sink into Stupor
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Snap
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.
Instant
Snap (woc) 110
Snapback
You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Instant
Snapback (tsr) 87
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
Unauthorized Exit
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Unauthorized Exit (mkm) 74
Witness Protection
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)
Enchantment - Aura
Witness Protection (snc) 66

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Tokens

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Alandra, Sky Dreamer
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Alandra, Sky Dreamer (mkc) 94
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
Doubling Season
If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.
Enchantment
Doubling Season (wot) 52

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Tutor

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Forerunner of the Heralds
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Forerunner of the Heralds (rix) 129

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