But how to turn that into a cohesive list?
Splash a bit of green to add a couple of Asceticisms I have lying around, toss in Lullmage Mentors and control FTW?
No Merrow Commerce, huh? Less durdle, more fish to the face?
You could certainly field one if you wanted. The fact that Tidal Courier can nab it makes it significantly more appealing that it might otherwise appear to be. The deck is just a rough guideline, you don't have to play it card-for-card or anything. That being said Merrow Commerce is BEGGING for something like:
Yon decklist of even fishier goodness
Give-or-take a couple of cards. Obviously if you want to be mean you can add Prophet of Kruphix.
Oh yes, that's shiny, that is.
I suspect I will suit up less copies of Opposition and toss in a couple of Aquitect's Wills (mostly because they too get tutored for by Tidal Courier, help make a lot of the fish unblockable, and replace themselves in your hand.... and Opposition is a pretty grindy, hated-on card in my meta, no matter how incredible it would be here).
Right, let's see how much of this I actually have stashed away and start fishing...
Quick note, if you you do run Lullmage Mentor run 4, run token generators and run card draw. The deck doesn't need many counters at all, it could even run 0. The main thing that you want is tons and tons of bodies on the field to counter spells "that matter" and when people don't cast Wraths or whatever you just activate Kumena and build towards an OTK. Not that you have to OTK, but if the table sits back and does nothing you'll eventually win so the onus is on them to do something.
I'll note that unlike most tribal decks Merfolk isn't that weak to removal because if you run a deck like the one that I posted every other card says "draw a card" on it so you never run out of gas. Tidal Courier is also bonkers. I wish Merfolk had a Goblin Matron :(.
Did you finally built the deck around Aquitect's Wills I would love to see it. Do you play 4 copies of Lord of Atlantis in it to give everything Islandwalk?
How do you benefit from Merrow Commerce without playing the Opposition?
Forerunner of the Heralds gets you the one Merfolk you want, but you're waiting a turn for it (as it's on top of your library). Tidal Courier gives you up to four, straight into your hand, now. So, on the assumption that weight of numbers wins with this deck (which is kind of its aim in places)... Merrow Commerce plus Kumena is OP. I'm also going to add Lullmage Mentors and completely lock the game out (because that's how I roll)... swing in my turn, everything untaps, counter everything in their turn...
Still building it, as I'm still sourcing the pieces, but I'm pretty close. I'm taking it down the "four Lullmage Mentors, token generators and card draw" route that Prid3 mentioned in the last post. Still working out the ratios, but Deeproot Waters is probably going to do work as well. I'll post back when I've got the 60 finalised!
It likely goes without mentioning, but if you're going to go the Opposition route, include Prophet of Kruphix, since Merfolk or not, it will win you games.
Might be worth considering a Cauldron of Souls too. Might give you an out against sweepers, seeing as you're going to need to keep a critical number of fish on the board to make the engine work.
I'd definitely want some number of counter in there, preferably the free kind like Foil.
I'd also include a Wonder. I like that card in pretty much any island-heavy deck.
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I have the following laying around besides Kumena:
But how to turn that into a cohesive list?
Splash a bit of green to add a couple of Asceticisms I have lying around, toss in Lullmage Mentors and control FTW?
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24x Land
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4x Cosi's Trickster
4x Merfolk Mistbinder
4x Silvergill Adept
2x Lord of Atlantis
2x Cold-Eyed Selkie
4x Merrow Reejerey
1x Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
1x Kopala, Warden of Waves
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1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder
4x Counterspell
2x Cyclonic Rift
1x Kindred Discovery
1x Blatant Thievery
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No Merrow Commerce, huh? Less durdle, more fish to the face?
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You could certainly field one if you wanted. The fact that Tidal Courier can nab it makes it significantly more appealing that it might otherwise appear to be. The deck is just a rough guideline, you don't have to play it card-for-card or anything. That being said Merrow Commerce is BEGGING for something like:
24x Land
Creatures (28)
4x Cosi's Trickster
4x Merfolk Mistbinder
4x Silvergill Adept
2x Lord of Atlantis
2x Cold-Eyed Selkie
4x Merrow Reejerey
1x Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
1x Kopala, Warden of Waves
4x Tidal Courier
1x Prime Speaker Zegana
1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder
3x Merrow Commerce
2x Deeproot Waters
3x Opposition
Give-or-take a couple of cards. Obviously if you want to be mean you can add Prophet of Kruphix.
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Green - Blue - Red - White - Gold
Oh yes, that's shiny, that is.
I suspect I will suit up less copies of Opposition and toss in a couple of Aquitect's Wills (mostly because they too get tutored for by Tidal Courier, help make a lot of the fish unblockable, and replace themselves in your hand.... and Opposition is a pretty grindy, hated-on card in my meta, no matter how incredible it would be here).
Right, let's see how much of this I actually have stashed away and start fishing...
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You could probably cut down to 22 land if you add 4 of those. That should give you enough card draw.
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Green - Blue - Red - White - Gold
I'll note that unlike most tribal decks Merfolk isn't that weak to removal because if you run a deck like the one that I posted every other card says "draw a card" on it so you never run out of gas. Tidal Courier is also bonkers. I wish Merfolk had a Goblin Matron :(.
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Green - Blue - Red - White - Gold
Forerunner of the Heralds gets you the one Merfolk you want, but you're waiting a turn for it (as it's on top of your library). Tidal Courier gives you up to four, straight into your hand, now. So, on the assumption that weight of numbers wins with this deck (which is kind of its aim in places)...
Merrow Commerce plus Kumena is OP. I'm also going to add Lullmage Mentors and completely lock the game out (because that's how I roll)... swing in my turn, everything untaps, counter everything in their turn...
Still building it, as I'm still sourcing the pieces, but I'm pretty close. I'm taking it down the "four Lullmage Mentors, token generators and card draw" route that Prid3 mentioned in the last post. Still working out the ratios, but Deeproot Waters is probably going to do work as well. I'll post back when I've got the 60 finalised!
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I'd definitely want some number of counter in there, preferably the free kind like Foil.
I'd also include a Wonder. I like that card in pretty much any island-heavy deck.