Merfolk Skydiver
- Mana cost
- {G}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Merfolk Mutant
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- War of the Spark #205 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.30 USD
Flying
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{3}{G}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Merfolk Skydiver has 2 printings, first in War of the Spark (2019). EDHREC ranks it #6,780 among Commander cards. It appears most in Hakbal of the Surging Soul decks (11,868 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Merfolk Skydiver
- Explorers of the Deep - The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander, led by Hakbal of the Surging Soul
Commanders that run Merfolk Skydiver most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Hakbal of the Surging Soul: 11,868 decks
- Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca: 1,779 decks
- Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood: 740 decks
- Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres: 605 decks
- Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied: 440 decks
- Vorel of the Hull Clade: 290 decks
- Nicanzil, Current Conductor: 192 decks
- Mikey & Don, Party Planners: 161 decks
Often played with Merfolk Skydiver
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You may choose Merfolk Skydiver as the target of its own ability.
- : To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
- : If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
- : You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
- : If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- : An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- : Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.