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

Wanderwine Hub

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

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

Mutavault

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

Its students graduate the school and enter history.

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

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

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.

Island

Plains

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.)

Mystic Sanctuary

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

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

Celestial Colonnade

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
{3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.

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.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

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

Glacial Fortress

This land enters 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}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

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.)

Port Town

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

Hallowed Fountain

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

Azorius Chancery

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

Temple of Enlightenment

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 {W} or {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}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

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

Sea of Clouds

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

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

Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{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 this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Aether Vial

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
{T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

"Of all the things that can be stolen, opportunity is the most valuable."

Cursecatcher

Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Counterspell

"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.

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.)

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.

"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.

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.)

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.

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.

"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.

"The sky is like another sea. It teems with currents, life, and endless possibility."

Seascape Aerialist

Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, you may have Ally creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Merrow Harbinger

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

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.

He fancies himself a master thief, claiming to "steal the ground" from his victims.

Merrow Levitator

{T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, you may untap this creature.

Unable to touch items of value, he goes forth to steal secrets instead.

Looter il-Kor

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card, then discard a card.

Watertrap Weaver

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

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.

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

Merfolk Looter

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.

The sea leaves no room for tears.
—Zhalfirin adage

Merfolk Seer

When this creature dies, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, draw a card.

She watches the chaos created by the Roil, seeking strength in the patterns of anarchy.

Cosi's Trickster

Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"You see our world when you shut your eyes so tightly that tiny shapes float before them."
—Lyna, to Ertai

Thalakos Seer

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
When this creature leaves the battlefield, 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.

"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.

"The best expedition would be an entire team of me."

Jwari Shapeshifter

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any Ally creature on the battlefield.

The Silvergill school monitors traffic on the Lanes, ensuring that the riffraff don't interfere with travelers.

Silvergill Douser

{T}: Target creature gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Merfolk and/or Faeries you control.

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 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.

True-Name Nemesis

As this creature enters, choose a player.
This creature has protection from the chosen player.

"You may want to hold your breath."
—Kellyg, merrow aquitect

Aquitect's Will

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, 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.

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.

The tide of battle favors those who can swim.

Tidal Warrior

{T}: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.

"Sometimes when I look at the ocean, I could swear it changes colors."
—Sisay

Vodalian Mystic

{T}: Target instant or sorcery spell becomes the color of your choice.

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.

"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.

Master of Predicaments

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose a card in your hand. That player guesses whether the card's mana value is greater than 4. If the player guessed wrong, you may cast the card without paying its mana cost.

"You can't learn to enjoy life's amusements in the pages of books. You must seek them out in earnest."

Prodigal Sorcerer

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

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.

One glamer leads him far from home. The next washes away his memory that home was ever anywhere but at her side.

Sower of Temptation

Flying
When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.

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.

Stripped of his sight, he was free to see only the ideal.

Puresight Merrow

{W/U}, {Q}: Look at the top card of your library. You may exile that card. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

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.

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