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.

Waterways carve their routes through the land to reflect the paths the aether streams cut through the clouds.

Woodland Stream

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

Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life.

Simic Guildgate

Lumbering Falls

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

Command Tower

Tower Winder

Back in the '80s, Channel 6 built their headquarters at the corner of Spectacle and Scandal.

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

"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.

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}.

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}.

Working with the best of intentions, its researchers unwittingly unleashed a plague of troubles upon Dominaria.

Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Forest

Gilt-Leaf Alchemist

Island

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.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Mosswort Bridge

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

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}.

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.)

Secluded Courtyard

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 or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

"A hamster sumo wrestler? Snot that's also a crime lord? An alien newt assassin? April, how am I supposed to edit all of this footage into something watchable, much less believable?"
—Irma Langenstein

Evolving Wilds

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

Eclipsed Realms

As this land enters, choose Elemental, Elf, Faerie, Giant, Goblin, Kithkin, Merfolk, or Treefolk.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a source of the chosen type.

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, 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.

"For a fortnight, our warband lay still beneath the icy waters, breathing through reeds as we waited for the great bear to appear."
—Iskene, Kannah storyteller

Rimewood Falls

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

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.)

"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.

"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.

"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

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.)

"The same power that drives the river ever onward flows through the roots and branches—to me."

Kumena's Speaker

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control another Merfolk or an Island.

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.

"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.)

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.

With matchless stealth, the River Heralds fought a running battle against the three enemy forces.

Mist-Cloaked Herald

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.

"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.

Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast this spell 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.

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.)

"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.

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.

Simic Ascendancy

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

Incubation // Incongruity

Frog Lizard

Incubation

Look at the top five 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 a random order.

Incongruity

Exile target creature. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

The wills of mortals shift as the tide ebbs and flows.

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

"Beauty to the eye does not always translate to the touch."
—Naimah, Femeref philosopher

Man-o'-War

When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

The Vodalian Empire tends to be insular. The scholarly Volshe caste are the exception, using education as an antidote to xenophobia.

Vodalian Arcanist

{T}: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.

"Blasted fishtails! It's not enough that they meddle with my head, but they twist my body as well."
—Tahngarth of the *Weatherlight*

Merfolk Thaumaturgist

{T}: Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Watertrap Weaver

When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"She knows every step of this coastline, both above and below the surface, and she has hideouts all along the way. She will get you there."
—Jori En, expedition leader

Coralhelm Guide

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

"Yo! It's the green machine! / Gonna rock the town without bein' seen! / Have you ever seen a turtle get doooown?"

Harmonize

A single lie unleashes a tide of disbelief.

Echoing Truth

Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.

Kindred Summons

Choose a creature type. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards of the chosen type, where X is the number of creatures you control of that type. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners—and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"More of that strange oil . . . It's probably nothing."

Steady Progress

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.

"I don't have time for you right now."
—Teferi

Exclude

Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.

"Everything serves a purpose. Even you."
—Vorel of the Hull Clade

Plasm Capture

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next first main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is that spell's mana value.

Yavimaya's Embrace

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample.

Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

"Mists are carefree. They drift where they will, unencumbered by rocks and river beds."
—Thrasios, triton hero

Vaporkin

Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Tidewater Minion

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{4}: This creature loses defender until end of turn.
{T}: Untap target permanent.

Cloud of Faeries

Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Quickling

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

The apes of Yavimaya draw strength from the spirits of their ancestors.

Silverback Shaman

Trample
When this creature dies, draw a card.

The puffer's flesh is the deadliest in the sea—and therefore the most useful.

Puffer Extract

{X}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end 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.

The Phyrexian death machine awoke, its coldsteel heart imbuing it with sinister new power.

Coldsteel Heart

This artifact enters tapped.
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Grimoire Thief

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, exile the top three cards of target opponent's library face down.
You may look at cards exiled with this creature.
{U}, Sacrifice this creature: Turn all cards exiled with this creature face up. Counter all spells with those names.

Tidewalker

This creature enters with a time counter on it for each Island you control.
Vanishing (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from this creature. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
Tidewalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of time counters on it.

"The enlightenment I never found in etherium I have found traced in the coatl's scales."
—Ranalus, vedalken heretic

Lorescale Coatl

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Only when I saw my enemy walk through all my defenses, untouchable as the moon in the sky, did I truly know what it is to be afraid."
—King Ixes

Phantom Warrior

The Simic soon discovered that the sky offered as few constraints on size as the sea.

Nimbus Swimmer

Flying
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When this creature becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control this creature.

Selkies call to a sea they never swam, in a tongue they never spoke, with a song they never learned.

Wistful Selkie

"I might have overfed him."
—Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Galloping Lizrog

Trample
When this creature enters, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control. If you do, put twice that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Map to Lorthos's Temple

Lorthos, the Tidemaker

When Lorthos emerges from his deepwater realm, the tides bow to his will and the coastline cowers in his presence.

Whenever Lorthos attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Singing Bell Strike

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Enchanted creature has "{6}: Untap this creature."

Bonder and bonded move in unison, intuiting each other's next move.

Anticipate

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.

Morph

Gudul Lurker

This creature can't be blocked.
Megamorph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form

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"Metamorphosis is a process."
—Laboratory notes

Aberrant Researcher

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If an instant or sorcery card was milled this way, transform this creature. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

The final pages of the experiment log were blank. Investigators found it abandoned on a desk in the researcher's lab, open, the pages flipping in the wind from a shattered window.

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