UG Merfolk

Standard* Aggro Counters GU (Simic) Merfolk

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Creature (30)

• 4x Deeproot Elite
• 4x Herald of Secret Streams
• 2x Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
• 4x Kumena's Speaker
• 4x Metallic Mimic
• 4x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 4x Silvergill Adept
• 4x Vineshaper Mystic

Land (22)

• 4x Botanical Sanctum
• 7x Forest
• 7x Island
• 4x Unclaimed Territory

Instant (8)

• 4x Blossoming Defense
• 4x Unsummon

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 2x Heroic Intervention
• 2x Naturalize
• 4x Negate

Artifact (4)

• 2x Aethersphere Harvester
• 2x Lifecrafter's Bestiary

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Aether Meltdown

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Merfolk Mistbinder

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Brewing with Merfolk and their vastly improved options. This is a +1/+1 counters build, which I feel is stronger than the Deeproot Waters token builds floating around, as the card is too slow by not generating any tokens until turn 4 at the earliest, and doing nothing turn 3 to get a 1/1 on turn 4 just isn't good.

With so many +1/+1 counter generators in the tribe now, this build scales up all the creatures on the board, makes the 1-drop Mist-Cloaked Herald increasingly dangerous as the game goes on, and can insta-win out of nowhere on a stalled board with Herald of Secret Streams as it's not hard to get a counter on every creature with Metallic Mimic, Deeproot Elite, and Vineshaper Mystic.

No Merfolk Mistbinder at this point, as 2-drop slots are limited and it doesn't create counters like Metallic Mimic or draw a card like Silvergill Adept (which is the most likely place to swap it in, but I feel like the free card early is worth a lot).

Top Ranked	Achieved #38 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 6 Rares 16 - 3 Uncommons 12 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.95
Folders	Models