MERLENTLESS - TRIBAL MERFOLK - BY KUMENA

Commander / EDH* Control GU (Simic) Merfolk

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Creature (40)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Coralhelm Commander
• 1x Deepchannel Mentor
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Deeproot Elite
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Fallowsage
• 1x Forerunner of the Heralds
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Kopala, Warden of Waves
• 1x Lord of Atlantis
• 1x Lullmage Mentor
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Master of the Pearl Trident
• 1x Merfolk Mistbinder
• 1x Merfolk Sovereign
• 1x Merrow Harbinger
• 1x Merrow Reejerey
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Reef Shaman
• 1x Seafloor Oracle
• 1x Seahunter
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Surgespanner
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Tidal Warrior
• 1x Tideshaper Mystic
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Wake Thrasher
• 1x Wanderwine Prophets

Land (33)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 5x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 11x Island
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Woodland Stream
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Instant (7)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Benefactor's Draught
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fuel for the Cause
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Mirror Match

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Curse of Bounty
• 1x Deeproot Waters
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Merrow Commerce
• 1x Quest for Renewal

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Arm with AEther
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

Artifact (4)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Paradox Engine

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Svyelun of Sea and Sky

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Combine Guildmage
• 1x Emperor Mihail II
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Sapphire Drake
• 1x Skatewing Spy
• 1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Vodalian Hexcatcher
• 1x Zegana, Utopian Speaker

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

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The first version of my Tribal Merfolk EDH deck, starring Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca, by far the best Mefolk Commander ever printed, and absolutely perfect for my style of tribal deck building, which I describe as Snowball Aggro. The longer the game goes on the more creatures there are on the board, with power and toughness that just keep getting bigger, as they get more and more abilities, and my card draw and ramp just keeps going up to spam the board with my creatures before the big unblockable attack that wipes them all out.

Where this deck excels, is in making it's creatures big, and getting lots of card draw. That's why this deck runs as many cards as possible that will untap our creatures as often as possible, so that we can keep spamming the merfolk tap abilities. Also this deck has quite a few one sided board wipe style cards such as Aetherspouts which are fantastic. Hell putting all their creatures on the bottom of their library is even better than killing them, because it makes it even rougher on graveyard strategy decks. There are quite a few lords including clones to copy them. There are some fantastic support creatures. Some tutors. Even some straight up bombs like Cauldron of Souls, a card I have always thought was cool but have never actually played, because it just wasn't strong enough to make the cut, but in this deck it is solid gold. Opponent plays a board wipe? Cauldron taps, targeting all your creatures, so that they return to the board, you immediately tap 5 of them to put a +1/+1 counter on each of them, which cancels out the -1/-1 persist counter, so they are back to normal again.

I haven't had a chance to play this deck myself yet, but I have ALOT of experience with tribal decks, and I think this one is going to do really well overall.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 1 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Kiora, Master of the Depths, Merfolk 1/1 U, Merfolk 1/1 U w/ Hexproof, Octopus 8/8 U
Folders	COMMANDER SET 1