Svyelun's Merfolk Dominion - Merfolk Tribal (EDH / Commander)

Dive into the depths of the ocean and explore the wonders of the merfolk kingdom with "Svyelun's Merfolk Dominion," a mono-blue Commander deck led by the enigmatic Svyelun of Sea and Sky. Assemble your aquatic army and harness the power of the tides to control the battlefield, draw cards with ease, and ultimately outmaneuver your opponents in the unpredictable waters of Commander.

Deck Plan:
Make wide board of unblockable merfolks and swing them at to your opponents.
WinCon boardstate: Most of lords on the battlefield and Deepchannel Mentor giving them unblockable. Lullmage Mentor and Intruder Alarm lockdown. Wanderwine Prophets extra turns.

For fast start you only need Sol Ring, Island and Sky Diamond in your starting hand. Cast them in turn 1 and then on turn 2 cast Svyelun of Sea and Sky. In casual edh games having 3/4 creature on turn 2 that draws cards, is like having 10/10 annahilator eldrazi in turn 6 or so. They are not the same, but the situation has same energy.

You don't realy need to do complicated infinite combos with Wonderwine Prophets. For example, sacrifice least important merfolk to take extra turns. You can also bounce some cheap merfolk wizard wiht Riptide Laboratory and make token merfolks for Wanderwine Prophets with Deeproot Waters or Emperor Mihail II.

Feel free to use this as template for your own merfolk tribal. There is many ways you can take this deck. Many merfolk are also wizards. Cards like Azami, Lady of Scrolls can bee a good draw engine.
Emperor Mihail II, Thassa, God of the Sea and Thassa, Deep-Dwelling can also be as commanders.

TIPS

• Don't be afraid to attack. This deck is mainly aggro deck and most of merfolks can't be blocked. If you want to be polite, attack evenly on your opponents.
• Thieving Skydiver; Thad Adel, Acquisitor and Empress Galina are there for reason so utilize them.
• Whirlpool Rider is a very good "Windfall" effect. I use it mainly when I want refill my hand with new cards. (Why i'm not using actual Windfall spell? Answer: Whirpool Rider is merfolk. Casting merfolk in this deck does sometimes crazy stuff."
• Read the game. Spot early threats and resolve them quickly. This means Board Wipes Spot Removal or stax cards that makes your life harder.
• Don't overextend if you can't protect your merfolks.
• Sometimes your opponents have better stuff than you have. Steal or copy them!

COMBOS AND SIMILAR STUFF

These are mainly backbones of combos. Since deck is running Intruder Alarm and few other "fun" stuff. Combos and card synergies will get out off hands.

"Casual" Infinite Turns Combo
Saprazzan Outrigger + Emperor Mihail II + Wanderwine Prophets + merfolk to sacriface.

• All cards on the battlefield and Saprazzan Outrigger and Wanderwine Prophets dosn't have summoning sickness. And you have atleast 4 coloress and 1 blue mana to spend each turn. Make sure that Saprazzan Outrigger and Wanderwine Prophets are unblockable.
• Attack with Saprazzan and Wanderwine.
• Sacriface a merfolk for Wanderwine Prophets to take extra turn.
• Put Saprazzan on top of your library.
• Cast Saprazzan Outrigger on with Emperor Mihail II and pay 1 to make a merfolk token.
• End your turn and repeat setps to make infinite turns.

Nearly Infinite Blue Mana
Nyx Lotus untapped, Merrow Reejerey on the batllefield, enough devotion to blue and enough merfolk spells to cast in your hand.

• Cast merfolk spell.
• Tap Nyx Lotus for blue mana.
• Merfolk Reejery triggers for casting merfolk spell, untap Nyx Lotus with Merfolk Reejery.
• Repeat this as many times as you can cast a merfolk spells.

Counter All Spells
Lullmage Mentor, Intruder Alarm and 7 merfolks.

• Have atleast 6 other merfolks, Lullmage Mentor and Intruder Alarm on the battlefield.
• When someone plays a spell tap 7 merfolks and counter target spell.
• Lullmage Mentor makes 1/1 blue merfolk token and Intruder Alarm untaps all merfolks.

Riptide Suprise

• Play Riptide Shapeshifter, activate it's ability and choose "leviathan", "horror/kraken" or "human" as creature type.
• Dang, you now have creature.
• Leviathan creature type fetches you Stormtide Leviathan.
• Horror/kraken creature type fetches you Hullbreaker Horror.
• Human creature type fetches you Seahunter or Azami, Lady of Scrolls.
  I don't recommend to choose merfolk, wizard or rogue as creature type for Riptide Shapeshifter. Since most of merfolks are dirt cheap to cast and you propably get something that you don't want.

For players who want true infinite combos:

Infinite Colorless Mana
Everflowing Chalice in hand. All other permanents on the battlefield.

• Activate Sol Ring by tapping it, adding {C}{C}
• Cast Everflowing Chalice by paying {0}
• Hullbreaker Horror triggers, returning Sol Ring from the battlefield to your hand
• Cast Sol Ring by paying {1}
• Hullbreaker Horror triggers, returning Everflowing Chalice from the battlefield to your hand
• Repeat

Infinite Turns:

• Wanderwine Prophets + Maskwood Nexus
• Wanderwine Prophets + Thassa, Deep-Dwelling + Benthicore

Wall of Plays
This is a section where I writedown actual game moments when this deck is performed realy well.

• Survivor of four boardwipes and first time when I used Merfolk Reejerey and Nyx Lotus to make over 30 blue mana. Outcome: Game won.
• Turn 4 Wonderwine Prophets following Deepchannel Mentor on next turn. I didn't have right cards to make it infinite, but I took enough extra turns that we agreed to end game there since opponents realy didn't have anyasnwers for my Prophets. Outcome: Game Won

Deck updates moved to Moxfield.
Link: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/oohgJc6ylUat-0_i-058gg