Death from the sea

Standard GU (Simic)

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Creature (32)

• 4x Deeproot Elite
• 4x Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
• 4x Kumena's Speaker
• 3x Merfolk Branchwalker
• 4x Merfolk Mistbinder
• 4x Merfolk Trickster
• 3x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 4x Silvergill Adept
• 2x Tempest Caller

Land (21)

• 4x Botanical Sanctum
• 6x Forest
• 4x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island

Instant (3)

• 1x Spell Pierce
• 2x Unsummon

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Deeproot Waters

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Crushing Canopy
• 3x Essence Scatter
• 3x Negate
• 3x Spell Pierce

Creature (4)

• 2x Deathgorge Scavenger
• 2x Kopala, Warden of Waves

Artifact (1)

• 1x Aethersphere Harvester

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Been playing merfolks in standard since ixalan came out and this is the last iteration of the deck i'm testing.The deck plays similar to our earlier lists, being capable of either aggroing out our opponents or stalling the game long enough with Deeproot Waters to drop an often game-winning Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca.

The latest addition to our arsenal is Merfolk Trickster and it is a welcome one at that, allowing us to stop attackers from destroying us, removing annoying abilities from the field (like Hazoret,the fervent's indestructible or Rekindling Phoenix's flying and pseudo-recursiveness)) allowing for favourable blocks, or as a combat trick when you have Deeproot Elite + Deeproot Waters out to give a couple counters swinging combat math in your favour.

The land count is quite low, but the deck can sustain it thanks to explore and draw from our fishes, allowing us to quite reliably drop a turn 3 waters.

Unsummon and Spell Pierce are pretty self explainatory allowing us to play a tempo oriented game one; in the side we aim to slow the game down a bit against control with our counterspells, putting Deathgorge Scavenger and Aethersphere Harvester in aggro decks. When sideboarding agains U/W decks you should not totally neglect Essence Scatter since the FOTM build brings in Lyra Dawnbringer from the side and countering a Torrential Gearhulk feels pretty good too.

Any advice is welcome and I am happy to reply to any questions about the deck, thank you for reading and good luck on the battlefields :)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Deeproot Elite + Deeproot Waters
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 12 - 5 Rares 21 - 3 Uncommons 10 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.05
Tokens	Energy Reserve, Merfolk 1/1 U w/ Hexproof