The gods known to the merfolk as Ula, Emeria, and Cosi were nothing more than false memories of a monstrous trinity: the Eldrazi titans Ulamog, Emrakul, and Kozilek.

Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate only if you control seven or more lands.

Remote Isle

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Lonely Sandbar

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

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.

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

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

Island

Once, water ran here. Now only dust and ash fall from the clifftops.

Blighted Cataract

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Memorial to Genius

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

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}.

Skyline Cascade

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
{T}: Add {U}.

Coral Atoll

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{U}.

Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land.
{T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

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.

"Our world is vast, but Thraben is its heart. The cathedral must stand even if the hinterlands are lost."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Evolving Wilds

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

Soaring Seacliff

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target creature gains flying until end of turn.
{T}: Add {U}.

Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Tidal Courier

When this creature enters, 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}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

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.

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Anyone who thinks merrows have more brains than brawn has never been run over by one.

Wake Thrasher

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

Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
When Slinn Voda enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

To resist Thassa is to deny the rising tide.

Thassa's Rebuff

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Most see krakens as wantonly violent, failing to notice their meticulous attention to detail when dismantling a vessel.

Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

Most inhabitants of Zendikar have given up on the idea of an accurate map.

Spreading Seas

Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land is an Island.

Deepfathom Skulker

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{3}{C}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

"I do not understand the future I see: the guilds subverted, the world at war, armies bent to a cruel conqueror's will."

Sphinx of Foresight

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep.
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

"No amount of strength can help you overcome my trial. You must be ready to forgo your body and favor your mind."
—Kefnet, god of knowledge

Illusory Wrappings

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/2.

Wall

Tidal Wave

"The floor of the sea is paved with the shattered remnants of vessels that navigated its surface unwelcomed."
—Thassa, god of the sea

Create a 5/5 blue Wall creature token with defender. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Boar

Curse of the Swine

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

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

Philosophers say those lost at sea ascended to a more perfect realm. Sailors say they drowned.

Voyage's End

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Thassa's Emissary

Bestow {5}{U} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Whenever this creature or enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

"I bring a flood that nothing can withstand."

Thassa's Intervention

Choose one —
• Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

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.

"Begin with your escape and work backward."
—*Way of Secrets*

Cunning Evasion

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand.

Tempest Caller

When this creature enters, tap all creatures target opponent controls.

Sea Gate Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Merfolk don't always know what they're looking for, but they're certain once they find it.

Merfolk Looter

Treasure

Sailor of Means

The rising tide of Orazca's plunder lifted all ships.

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

"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.

In retrospect, using storm magic against a storm giant was not the wisest strategy.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Summary Dismissal

Exile all other spells and counter all abilities.

"The greatest victory is a battle unfought."
—*Tome of Obstructions*

Essence Scatter

Her prophecies amaze her even as she speaks them.

Omenspeaker

When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

"My time will come, when the rising tide will surge above the tallest mountain."

Omen of the Sea

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this enchantment enters, scry 2, then draw a card.
{2}{U}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Teferi had once wielded the power—-and hubris—of a god. To fix his mistakes, he would risk everything.

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

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.

"They come to drink, to bathe, and—I believe—to play."

Waterkin Shaman

Whenever a creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

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.)

Benthic Biomancer

{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 this creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

The sailor had never seen a god before. Now she had gazed upon Thassa. Shortly she would see Athreos, and then she would meet Erebos.

Thassa's Ire

{3}{U}: You may tap or untap target creature.

"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.

The River Heralds would wreck a thousand ships to keep intruders from finding the golden city.

Shaper Apprentice

This creature has flying as long as you control another Merfolk.

Morph

Slipstream Serpent

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.
Morph {5}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Aether Gale

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

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.

Overwhelming Denial

Surge {U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target spell.

Thassa felt no need to punish the sailors for their folly in crossing the straits. The kraken would do it for her.

Kraken of the Straits

Creatures with power less than the number of Islands you control can't block this creature.

Quiet Contemplation

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, tap target creature an opponent controls and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Glyph Keeper

Flying
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability.
Embalm {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Sphinx with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Augury Owl

Flying
When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sealock Monster

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
{5}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When this creature becomes monstrous, target land becomes an Island in addition to its other types.

Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination

Innistrad Checklist

Ludevic's Test Subject

Defender
{1}{U}: Put a hatchling counter on this creature. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

After several frustrating experiments, the visionary Ludevic realized he needed to create a monster that fed on torch-wielding mobs.

Ludevic's Abomination

"Release that which was never caged."
—Spellbomb inscription

Aether Spellbomb

{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Conundrum Sphinx

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, each player chooses a card name. Then each player reveals the top card of their library. If the card a player revealed has the name they chose, that player puts it into their hand. If it doesn't, that player puts it on the bottom of their library.

Shorecrasher Elemental

{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control.
{1}: This creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.
Megamorph {4}{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.)

Rush of Ice

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Awaken 3—{4}{U} (If you cast this spell for {4}{U}, also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

"Beware an eddy where there should be none or a stretch that flows too fast or too slow."
—Old Fishbones, Martyne river guide

Watercourser

{U}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Anchor to the Aether

Put target creature on top of its owner's library. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"Every thought is a star illuminating the darkness. Inspiration comes from finding the constellations that link them."

Stroke of Genius

Clue

Fleeting Memories

When this enchantment enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target player mills three cards.

Lost at sea doesn't have to mean lost forever.

Shipwreck Dowser

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Dungeon Geists

Flying
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

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