[Deck] Merfolk

The new Merfolk is awesome!

My new list with him:


// Lands
14 [CHK] Island (4)
3 [MOR] Mutavault
3 [TE] Wasteland

// Creatures
4 [LRW] Silvergill Adept
4 [LRW] Merrow Reejerey
4 [TSB] Lord of Atlantis
4 [ROE] Coralhelm Commander
2 [M12] Phantasmal Image
4 [SHM] Cursecatcher
4 [M13] Master of the Pearl Trident

// Spells
3 [NE] Daze
4 [DS] AEther Vial
4 [AL] Force of Will
3 [OD] Standstill

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [ZEN] Spell Pierce
SB: 3 [NPH] Dismember
SB: 3 [ALA] Relic of Progenitus
SB: 3 [NE] Submerge
SB: 2 [SOK] Pithing Needle

I, for one, welcome our new blue overlords.

Adios Thalia!

I'm still mad at Merfolk for sucking after MMs was banned. It was the first tier legacy deck I built after months of saving and collecting, then bam! misstep gets banned.

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Originally Posted by Angels

Better get your Master of the Pearl Trident pre-sale. Got mine at $20. =P

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for four? its a 5$ card

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Originally Posted by Esper3k

Also, the Chalice builds really mess with StP/Bolt/REB. With Cavern, you can even still play Cursecatcher under your own Chalice.

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Seriously, I've played against a lot of Merfolk with a few different decks. Every time the maindeck Chalice builds are the ones that fuck me up. It shuts down removal for Lords, shuts down one drops, cantrips, and is quite good against decks like:
Reanimator: no cantrips, no Reanimate, no Entomb. No discard. No Spell Pierce.
RUG/UR Tempo: Most of their deck. Cantrips, they play mostly one drops.
BUG Tempo: They play a heavier discard suite, usually 7, and it shuts off Spell Pierce, cantrips, Goose, Delver, etc.
Storm combo: Ritual acceleration.
Dredge(?): Counters their draw spells all of which have 1cc. Counters Cabal Therapies, forces them to slow roll you.

It also shuts off common red post-board hate which Merfolk can encounter such as REB and Pyroblast, which basically one shots your Lords.

Also, if you draw a 2nd one, you can try to get it X on 2 considering you have Cavern of Souls to bypass countering your own lords at 2cc, and have Vial, etc.

Seems pretty good if Merfolk is to make a comeback. I think its much stronger than Standstill; why draw 3 cards and replenish your resources when you can better protect the resource you already have?

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Originally Posted by Humphrey

for four? its a 5$ card

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This card will be around the 7-10 dollar range since many many people need to upgrade their merfolk deck in legacy.

Then there is the need for a merfolk deck in modern.

I think it will be closer to 10 dolllars than 7

$10 is ridiculous.

Commander was never more than a $3 card on TCGPlayer. And is down to $1.50 right now.

This guy will surely be more popular, but I can't see it being higher than $5 in the next few months, then it will drop like cards always do unless they see Standard play.


Edit: Right now they're $3.99 on SCG for Pre Order...

I agree with vacrix. The only counter I can think of is that the combination of augur, adept, and image could generate enough card advantage that the protection from chalice wouldn't be needed. This is all conjecture though. I haven't tested the combination of the three yet. Again, right now I do think chalice is needed, but that may change come when m13 is released.

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Originally Posted by Hammunition

$10 is ridiculous.

Commander was never more than a $3 card on TCGPlayer. And is down to $1.50 right now.

This guy will surely be more popular, but I can't see it being higher than $5 in the next few months, then it will drop like cards always do unless they see Standard play.


Edit: Right now they're $3.99 on SCG for Pre Order...

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And it's sold out... A lot of people were buying it on Ebay with the $20 B.I.N price and it sold like hot cakes. It will stay within the $4-6 range.

I think I'll try out the Cavern + Vial + CotV. Hope I can make room for all 3.

I am looking forward to making sushi out of this deck. It still has no good way to beat Mother of Runes + Umezawa's Jitte.

#omnomnom #sushi

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Originally Posted by Koby

I am looking forward to making sushi out of this deck. It still has no good way to beat Mother of Runes + Umezawa's Jitte.

#omnomnom #sushi

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What if i bring in 3 jittes from my SB

How about playing with a black splash for perish and virtue's ruin? Mono U builds really have a hard time beating Maverick in my experience.

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Originally Posted by Koby

I am looking forward to making sushi out of this deck. It still has no good way to beat Mother of Runes + Umezawa's Jitte.

#omnomnom #sushi

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Hmm, apparently, this is a Food Cycle. Your deck eats Fish and pretty much dies when facing off a big Spaghetti. And those Fish usually can stand and eat some spicy Demons.

With 8 Lords that provide islandwalk now, how about Spreading Seas somewhere in the 75? Maverick won't be able to race us in most situations if we give them an island and can't block our creatures.

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Originally Posted by Koby

I am looking forward to making sushi out of this deck. It still has no good way to beat Mother of Runes + Umezawa's Jitte.

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8 islandwalk lords + some islandwalk enablers (Aquitect's Will, Tidal Warrior) + your own Jitte might work, though.

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Originally Posted by Angels

And it's sold out... A lot of people were buying it on Ebay with the $20 B.I.N price and it sold like hot cakes. It will stay within the $4-6 range.

I think I'll try out the Cavern + Vial + CotV. Hope I can make room for all 3.

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Dungrove Elder is a rare from M12. It sees decent play in a much, much larger format. It is $3. You're crazy if you think this will be more than $5 a month after M13 is released.

Amateur speculation.

Edit: For the ~$10 price estimations.

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Originally Posted by bilb_o

Amateur speculation.

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PFFT. Yeah, only amateurs are speculating that this new lord isn't going to dominated all formats like delver.

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Originally Posted by rxavage

PFFT. Yeah, only amateurs are speculating that this new lord isn't going to dominated all formats like delver.

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Yea. If anything it will just replace Lord of Atlantis as a better 2CMC lord.

8(12?) lord of atlantis sounds better