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Creatures (25)
1 Reef Shaman
4 Tideshaper Mystic
3 Silvergill Adept
4 Drowner of Secrets
3 Merrow Reejerey
3 Fallowsage
3 Judge of Currents
2 Harpoon Sniper
2 Sygg River Guide

Enchantments (3)
3 Merrow Commerce

Transient Spells (10)
3 Faerie Trickery
3 Broken Ambitions
4 Summon the School

Land (22)
2 City of Brass
1 Wandervine Hub
1 Coastal Tower
2 Boreal Shelf
10 Island
6 Plains

The idea is to get a Drowner of Secrets into play as soon as possible and start milling. Then it's simply a matter of getting as many merfolk into play as possible as quickly as possible.

The Coastal Towers and Boreal Shelves are filler until I get more Wandervine Hubs.

The Reef Shamans and Tideshaper Mystics are included simply because they are one-drops.

Some Ambassador Laquatus would make it a bit meaner but I don't have any.

Any other ideas, comments, or suggestions?

There are some fun new toys coming out in Morningtide that my Merfolk deck will enjoy:

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Stonybrook Schoolmaster
2W
Creature - Merfolk Wizard
1/2

Whenever Stonybrook Schoolmaster becomes tapped, you may put a 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature token into play.

Merrow schools rarely form by design. They come together naturally as eager learners surround the wisest teachers.

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Grimoire Thief
UU
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
2/2

Whenever Grimoire Thief becomes tapped, remove the top three cards of target opponent's library from the game face down.

You may look at cards removed from the game with Grimoire Thief.

(U), Sacrifice Grimoire Thief: Turn all cards removed from the game with Grimoire Thief face up. Counter all spells with those names.

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Ink Dissolver
1U
Creature - Merfolk Wizard
2/1

Kinship - At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Ink Dissolver you may reveal it. If you do, each opponent puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

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Stonybrook Banneret
1U
Creature - Merfolk Wizard
1/1

Islandwalk

Merfolk spells and Wizard spells you play cost less to play.

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Door of Destinies
4
Artifact

As Door of Destinies comes into play, choose a creature type.

Whenever you play a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

I of course drafted Merfolk at the midnight release and I bought two more packs at Pokemon League Saturday. Using that 8 packs worth of stuff and some trades I rebuilt my deck and made it even more disgusting.

Creatures (29)
4 Merrow Witsniper
4 Ink Dissolver
3 Stonybrook Banneret
4 Grimoire Thief
4 Drowner of Secrets
3 Merrow Reejerey
3 Fallowsage
4 Stonybrook Schoolmaster

Enchantments (3)
3 Merrow Commerce

Transient Spells (6)
3 Faerie Trickery
3 Summon the School

Land (22)
2 City of Brass
1 Wandervine Hub
1 Coastal Tower
2 Boreal Shelf
10 Island
6 Plains

I'd still like some Ambassador Laquatus but I still don't have any.

Any other ideas, comments, or suggestions?

I love/hate this deck it helps my mill deck get better, I hate playing against it

I realized that the white wasn't helping much so I decided to go mono-blue.

Creatures (25)
3 Mothdust Changeling - (U) Grimoire Thief tapper; gains flying
4 Merrow Witsniper - (U) Mills a card as it comes into play
4 Drowner Initiate - (U) Triggered ability lets me mill 2 cards whenever a blue spell is played
4 Silvergill Adept - (U) Lets me draw a card when it comes into play
3 Grimoire Thief - (UU) Removes 3 cards from target deck from the game when tapped
4 Drowner of Secrets - (2U) Tap a merfolk: mill a card
3 Merrow Reejerey - (2U) Merfolk Lord; lets me (un)tap things when I play Merfolk spells

Enchantments (3)
3 Merrow Commerce - (1U) Untaps my Merfolk at the end of my turn

Transient Spells (8 )
4 Memory Sluice - (U/B) Mill 4 cards; Conspire (lets me tap two creatures to copy it)
4 Rune Snag - (1U) Counterspell

Land (24)
24 Island

Sideboard (15)
4 Cancel - In case I need more counterspells
2 Tormod's Crypt - In case my opponent is running reanimators, Reminisce, etc.
2 Reminisce - In case my opponent is also running a mill deck
2 Deep-Sea Kraken - Backup win condition
4 Ponder - Filler
1 Memory Plunder - Filler


I'd still like some Ambassador Laquatus but I still don't have any.

Any other ideas, comments, or suggestions?

Doh! Gotta fix that. I wish I could run 10 or 12 Memory Sluices. My actual sideboard is legal I just kinda screwed up the write-up.

EDIT: Speaking of sideboards, the Krakens and Ponders proved to be worthless so I'm going to be rebuilding my sideboard before the tourney Thursday (in case we go again).