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Standard Budget Competitive Counters GU (Simic) Merfolk Tempo

jferris5

Creature (30)

• 4x Deeproot Elite
• 3x Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
• 4x Kumena's Speaker
• 4x Merfolk Branchwalker
• 4x Merfolk Mistbinder
• 4x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 3x Seafloor Oracle
• 4x Silvergill Adept

Land (20)

• 4x Botanical Sanctum
• 5x Forest
• 7x Island
• 4x Unclaimed Territory

Instant (6)

• 3x Blossoming Defense
• 3x Unsummon

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Deeproot Waters

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 2x Crushing Canopy
• 2x Essence Scatter
• 2x Naturalize
• 2x Negate
• 2x Spell Pierce

Creature (4)

• 2x Herald of Secret Streams
• 2x Tempest Caller

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Baral's Expertise

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Maybeboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Kefnet's Monument
• 1x Rhonas's Monument

Creature (3)

• 3x Watertrap Weaver

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A go-wide tribal merfolk Rivals of Ixalan deck.

Any feedback is appreciated!

Main Deck:

Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca - the main focus of the deck. 2/4 body means it's safe from Abrade or Lightning Strike. It can be unblockable, draw you cards, or put 1/1 counters on everything to close out the game.

Deeproot Elite - a psuedo-lord that lets you grow your merfolk. I like this card better than Metallic Mimic because it gives you more options about where to put the 1/1 counters.

Merfolk Mistbinder - great lord to grow all merfolk.

Silvergill Adept - gives you card advantage to keep you from top-decking in the late game.

Merfolk Branchwalker - good 2-drop and exploration card.

Kumena's Speaker and Mist-Cloaked Herald - aggro merfolk. Kumena's Speaker is almost always a 2/2 for 1 mana. Mist-Cloaked Herald is a great turn 1 play that is very effective with counters.

Deeproot Waters - a great token generator. It is a little slower than Jungleborn Pioneer but when running 4 of them it is very easy to spiral out of control and swarm the board.

Seafloor Oracle - works wonders with the token generation. This will draw you a TON of cards. It serves almost as an enchantment.

Unsummon - to help tempo through the game.

Sideboard:

Herald of Secret Streams - good against creature-heavy decks where the board gets filled.

Tempest Caller - another good card to bring in against creature-heavy matchups to help win you the game.

Essence Scatter - great against Glorybringer.

Negate and Spell Pierce - more counters for control or Approach decks.

Naturalize - good against decks with a lot of artifacts or enchantments.

Baral's Expertise - better than River's Rebuke in my opinion. It costs slightly less and allows you to play a merfolk afterwards.

Crushing Canopy - another way to deal with enchantments and Glorybringer or Angel of Invention.

Let me know what you think about the deck and any changes you would make. I'd love to hear your opinions!

Top Ranked	Achieved #42 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 11 - 3 Rares 23 - 2 Uncommons 11 - 10 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.98
Tokens	Merfolk 1/1 U w/ Hexproof