Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

{T}: Add {C}.

{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

When Aquatic Incursion enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 blue Merfolk creature tokens with hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

{3}{U}: Target Merfolk can't be blocked this turn.

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

When Augur of Bolas enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on Beastmaster Ascension.

As long as Beastmaster Ascension has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

{1}{U}: 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 Benthic Biomancer, draw a card, then discard a card.

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Descend 8 -- When you cast this spell, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, copy this spell twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bygone Marvels.

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever Cold-Eyed Selkie deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

{1}{G}, {T}: This turn, each creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

{1}{U}, {T}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto another target creature you control.

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Put target spell or nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top.

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Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.

Level up {1} ({1}: 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.

This spell has flash as long as you control a Merfolk.

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Draw a card.

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

{U}, {T}: Each player reveals the top card of their library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Whenever another Merfolk enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target Merfolk you control.

Merfolk and Druid cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast cards with retrace from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Whenever Deeproot Wayfinder 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.)

You may look at the top card of your library any time.

You may cast Merfolk spells from the top of your library.

Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.

{U}{U}, {T}: Gain control of target legendary permanent. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Landfall -- Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

You may play an additional land this turn.

Draw a card.

When Forerunner of the Heralds enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Whenever another Merfolk enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Forerunner of the Heralds.

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)

{T}: Add {G}.

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if that creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform Hadana's Climb.

(Transforms from Hadana's Climb.)

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

{1}{G}{U}, {T}: Target creature you control gains flying and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

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 of the Surging Soul attacks, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you don't, draw a card.

You may cast Harbinger of the Tides as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)

When Harbinger of the Tides enters the battlefield, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

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.

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

When Jadelight Ranger enters the battlefield, 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.)

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Kami of Whispered Hopes's power.

{T}: Add {C}.

{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

As Kindred Discovery enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters the battlefield or attacks, draw a card.

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

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.

Spells your opponents cast that target a Merfolk you control cost {2} more to cast.

Abilities your opponents activate that target a Merfolk you control cost {2} more to activate.

Tap another untapped Merfolk you control: Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca 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.

Llanowar Reborn enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {G}.

Graft 1 (This land enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Other Merfolk get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

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.

Protection from red

Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.

When Master of Waves enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

When Merfolk Branchwalker enters the battlefield, 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.)

Whenever a creature you control explores, Merfolk Cave-Diver gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.

Flying

When Merfolk Skydiver enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

{3}{G}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.

{T}: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

When Merrow Harbinger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

{T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Whenever you cast a blue spell, you may untap Merrow Levitator.

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.

As Metallic Mimic enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Flying

Other Merfolk you control get +1/+0 and have flying.

Encore {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Mosswort Bridge enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {G}.

{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {C}.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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, Current Conductor.

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

{1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: 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.)

Prime Speaker Zegana enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.

When Prime Speaker Zegana enters the battlefield, draw cards equal to its power.

Choose two --

• Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.

• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

• Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)

As Realmwalker enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

You may look at the top card of your library any time.

You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.

As Reflections of Littjara enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

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Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Proliferate, then choose any number of permanents you control that had a counter put on them this way. Those permanents phase out. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

When Riverwise Augur enters the battlefield, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

{T}: Add {C}.

{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the mana value of the permanent exiled this way.

Each other Wizard creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

{2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Whenever a Merfolk you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

As Secluded Courtyard enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: 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.

{3}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

{2}{U}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on Simic Ascendancy.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Simic Ascendancy has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield tapped.

When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

{T}: Add {G}{U}.

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Flash

When Singer of Swift Rivers enters the battlefield, 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.

{5}{U}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

Flying

{4}{G/P}: Transform Skyclave Aerialist. Activate only as a sorcery. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

Flying

When this creature transforms into Skyclave Invader, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I, II -- Until your next turn, creatures you control gain "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

III -- Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance, trample, and indestructible until end of turn.

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Merfolk spells and Wizard spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Whenever Surgespanner becomes tapped, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Svyelun of Sea and Sky has indestructible as long as you control at least two other Merfolk.

Whenever Svyelun attacks, draw a card.

Other Merfolk you control have ward {1}. (Whenever another Merfolk you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip {1}

Landfall -- Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

When Tempest Caller enters the battlefield, tap all creatures target opponent controls.

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.

When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)

Flying

When Thieving Skydiver enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to Thieving Skydiver.

When Tidal Courier enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Merfolk cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

{3}{U}: Tidal Courier gains flying until end of turn.

Kicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell.)

When Tide Shaper enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, target land becomes an Island for as long as Tide Shaper remains on the battlefield.

Tide Shaper gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.

Tishana, Voice of Thunder's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

You have no maximum hand size.

When Tishana enters the battlefield, draw a card for each creature you control.

When Topography Tracker enters the battlefield, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

If a creature you control would explore, instead it explores, then it explores again.

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

As True-Name Nemesis enters the battlefield, choose a player.

True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player.

As Unclaimed Territory enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

As Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

When Vineshaper Mystic enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target Merfolk you control.

Flash

Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.

Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.

{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.

Whenever a permanent you control becomes untapped, Wake Thrasher gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

{X}{G}{G}: Put X +1/+1 counters on target land you control. That land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.

Kinship -- At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Waterspout Weavers, you may reveal it. If you do, each creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.

Whenever Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood enters the battlefield or attacks, 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.

At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

When Zegana, Utopian Speaker enters the battlefield, if you control another creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card.

{4}{G}{U}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.