Island

Plains

Some worlds possess a hidden core where life's essence constantly surges.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

"Were I to go where my heart dwells, I would now be wandering in the fair valley of Rivendell."
—Aragorn

Rivendell

Rivendell enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

"I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and Minas Tirith in peace."
—Faramir

Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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.

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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.)

Lonely Sandbar

Lonely Sandbar enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

Below the great river, a bustling hub channels the flow of merrow trade.

Wanderwine Hub

As Wanderwine Hub enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Merfolk card from your hand. If you don't, Wanderwine Hub enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

The continent of Ondu is a vast plateau crisscrossed by deep trenches and meandering rivers.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Port Town

As Port Town enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Port Town enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Path of Ancestry

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.)

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Temple of Enlightenment

Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{U}.

Left barren by the Brothers' War, it stands as a stark reminder of Dominaria's likely fate should the Coalition fail.

Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Drownyard floods and unnatural frost made the once peaceful boardwalk deceptively treacherous.

Deserted Beach

Deserted Beach enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

A shoreless sea extends to every horizon, sharing its beauty only with those who can fly high enough to see it.

Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

From Otaria, the sun above meets the sea below at a glittering horizon.

Skycloud Expanse

Once a prosperous Vantress town, now swept clean and reclaimed by the waters of the wilds.

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Meticulous Archive enters the battlefield tapped.
When Meticulous Archive enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

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.)

"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 Silvergill Adept enters the battlefield, 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.

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.

"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 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.

"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.

Thassa, God of the Sea

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.

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.

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.

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

Fallowsage

Whenever Fallowsage becomes tapped, you may draw a card.

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

Merfolk Looter

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, Wake Thrasher gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

True-Name Nemesis

As True-Name Nemesis enters the battlefield, choose a player.
True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player.

Each spell is an intricate tapestry, and Kira is the great unraveler.

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper

On an Adventure

Merfolk curiosity usually has dire consequences, but rarely for the merfolk.

Merfolk Secretkeeper

Venture Deeper

Target player mills four cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

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.

Merfolk

Lullmage Mentor

"Many voices are needed to quiet this land."

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.

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
—Speaker Trifon

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

The pyromancer summoned up her mightiest onslaught of fire and rage. Jace feigned interest.

Counterspell

"Don't you have somewhere else to be?"
—Sharuum the Hegemon

Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious."
—Garild, merfolk mage

Sleep

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"How easily your flames are quenched."
—Baral, Chief of Compliance

Disallow

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

"That would have brought shame to you as a mage. Tell you what—I'll keep your secret."
—Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Deprive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.

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.

Carefully following the thaumatic compass Bolas had given her, Vraska blundered straight into the River Heralds' trap.

River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

"There are tides beyond those in the sea that are driven by Innistrad's silver moon. If you learn their patterns, you can channel them in fascinating ways."
—Tamiyo

Turn Aside

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

It was built by the Witch of Lochmere. Most of the wishes it grants are its own.

Witching Well

When Witching Well enters the battlefield, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
{3}{U}, Sacrifice Witching Well: Draw two cards.

"Sometimes the hardest choice is between two wonders."
—Gadwick, the Wizened

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)

The farmer was amazed to see the penny vanish into thin air, but the goose knew he'd just slipped it to the faerie.

Sleight of Hand

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.

"No fact escapes me. Why do you think you can?"

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

"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.

"Four parts molten bronze, yes ... one part frozen mercury, yes, yes ... but then what?"

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

"The tides have begun to ignore the moon."
—Tamiyo's journal

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"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}.

Fragments of thought refract and multiply, surging in a geyser of dizzying insight.

Mind Spring

Commandeer

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters the battlefield under your control.)

Metamorphic Alteration

Enchant creature
As Metamorphic Alteration enters the battlefield, choose a creature.
Enchanted creature is a copy of the chosen creature.

Even before Teferi heard Wrenn's call, a few Zhalfirins were roused from sleep by a strange, otherworldly song.

Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Kindred Discovery

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.

"They can't feel pain. They just wiggle 'cause they're scared."

Seahunter

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a Merfolk permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Knowledge is the universal currency of the Multiverse. It is power. It is freedom. It is possibility itself."

Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

"I said we should destroy the Eldrazi. Ugin wanted to return them to stasis. Ugin's arguments were . . . unconvincing."
—Jace Beleren

Dispel

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"The best denials are simply that: a beginning and end unchanged, a dream with no memory."

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

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