The limbs of Pendelhaven extend as far as the meek roam, and reach as high as they strive.

Pendelhaven

{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

Here the soratami wove their endless plots—graceful, artful, and deceitful, while the unwitting world moved below.

Oboro, Palace in the Clouds

{T}: Add {U}.
{1}: Return Oboro to its owner's hand.

Its students graduate the school and enter history.

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Our ancestors brought down a Phyrexian portal ship, then built our town on its hull. We're pretty proud of that."
—Alene of Riverspan

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

As magnigoth trees expanded across the sea into Almaaz and New Argive, it became clear Yavimaya's borders were never confined by its coastline.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

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

By morning the only evidence of conflict between Temur hunters and Sultai scouts were abandoned banners in the freshly fallen snow.

Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life.

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

Llanowar Reborn

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

"The unnatural pressures of life in this city are best withstood by lifeforms that adapt with unnatural swiftness."
—Momir Vig

Novijen, Heart of Progress

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

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

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Forest

Island

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, 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 {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Lumbering Falls

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{2}{G}{U}: This land becomes a 3/3 green and blue Elemental creature with hexproof until end of turn. It's still a land.

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

Path of Ancestry

This land enters 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.)

When they're done pummeling each other, the fighters relax companionably in the springs, warming their sore muscles.

Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, 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.

Soothing whispers invite travelers to step closer, closer, closer . . . until they vanish soundlessly beneath the surface.

Dreamroot Cascade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}.
{G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

"If you keep to the shallows, you'll never learn the secrets of the depths."

Silvergill Adept

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Merfolk card from your hand or pay {3}.
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Steady and silent as the deep current, the reejerey guides the course of the school.

Merrow Reejerey

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.

A master of tactics, the Lord of Atlantis makes his people bold in battle merely by arriving to lead them.

Lord of Atlantis

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

"Let the land dwellers know the coast is no longer the border between our realms. A new age of empire has begun."

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.)

"The mist clothes us when we are bare, hides us when we are alone, and unites us when we are together."
—Nirit of Pashona's band

Merfolk Mistbinder

"Be like the sea: flow around that which is unmovable; for everything else, crash into it unrelentingly."

Merfolk Sovereign

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
{T}: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.

"I know these waters better than you know yourselves."

Kopala, Warden of Waves

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.

Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast this card 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 this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Where the light falls dim and blue on broken ships, secrets lie unclaimed.

Seafloor Oracle

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

Saved from destruction by one planeswalker's sacrifice, the Eliterate colony forswore the taking of life.

Merfolk Trickster

Flash
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. It loses all abilities until end of turn.

Merfolk Branchwalker

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.)

Coralhelm Commander

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.

Master of Waves

Elemental

Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When this creature enters, 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.)

Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Merfolk Windrobber

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

"You think I stand alone? I have the forest at my call, the waters at my back. I outnumber you."

Deeproot Elite

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

Merfolk Skydiver

Flying
When this creature enters, 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.)

Deeproot Waters

Merfolk

A visit to the Deeproot Tree and its ancient spring replenishes a merfolk's connection to nature.

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.)

Made from trout scales and crawfish whiskers, merrows' shimmering banners flash in the water like lightning.

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 {1} less to cast.

Morph

Branchsnap Lorian

Lorians treat trees and prey the same way: by ripping them limb from limb.

Trample
Morph {G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

They ride on waves of aether, washing out anything that might pollute the Merrow Lanes.

Surgespanner

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

Memories of ages past are said to swim the minds of lounging fallowsages.

Fallowsage

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may draw a card.

"As much as I hate water, I *do* love fish . . . ."
—Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Merfolk Traders

When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.

Sejiri Merfolk

As long as you control a Plains, this creature has first strike and lifelink. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Fear the knight leaping from the water into the air, weapon ready.

Vodalian Knights

First strike
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.
{U}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Coralhelm Chronicler

Whenever you cast a kicked spell, draw a card, then discard a card.
When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a card with a kicker ability from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Rootwater merfolk are seldom seen these days, but elf corpses are as numerous as ever.

Rootwater Commando

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

"The reflection is true. It is you who are distorted and false."

Sigil Tracer

{1}{U}, Tap two untapped Wizards you control: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"Dwelling in icy mountain streams near goblin and orcish foes, the river merfolk were known for their stoicism."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. V*

River Merfolk

{U}: This creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

Mist-Syndicate Naga

Copy

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Thwart

You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Quest for Ula's Temple

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on this enchantment, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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

Emperor Mihail II

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.

Nature's Rhythm

Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Harmonize {X}{G}{G}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by an amount of generic mana equal to its power. Then exile this spell.)

"She may call herself Kiora but I believe she is Thassa, the embodiment of the sea and empress of the depths."

Kiora's Follower

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.

Schools meet and mingle on Lorwyn's riverways. In the bustling interplay, the merrow renew their sense of community as they sharpen their wits and hone their trading skills.

Merrow Commerce

At the beginning of your end step, untap all Merfolk you control.

The Temur celebrate the end of the Unbroken Night with stories, dances, and feasts. They gather to witness the first light of dawn as the land sings in harmony.

Auroral Procession

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She follows the old tributaries built when merrows still shaped the tides.

Cold-Eyed Selkie

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

"You might as well try to stop the waterfall."

Herald of Secret Streams

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

Murkfiend Liege

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Deeproot Pilgrimage

"These glyphs are more than trail markings! They tell a story as they go. But does it end in celebration or tragedy?"

Whenever one or more nontoken Merfolk you control become tapped, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof.

Built on a fumarole field, the village is a refuge of warmth amid the ice of the Qal Sisma mountains.

Mistrise Village

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.

With an echoing crash the effigy fell, the symbol of Atarka's tyranny expunged from Temur lands.

Heritage Reclamation

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile up to one target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

"You're just one more pollutant to be removed from the sea."

Vodalian Hexcatcher

Flash
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Quest for Renewal

Whenever a creature you control becomes tapped, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment.
As long as there are four or more quest counters on this enchantment, untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

"I used to hurl rocks and eat scraps of meat burned over a fire. Look at what I've become and tell me Simic does not hold infinite possibility."

Vorel of the Hull Clade

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

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