Merfolk Skydiver

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Merfolk Skydiver: Creature - Merfolk Mutant, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{G}{U}
Mana value
2
Type
Creature - Merfolk Mutant
Colour identity
Blue and green (UG)
Power / toughness
1/1
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Released
2023-11-17
Collector number
277
Artist
Sara Winters
Commander rank
6,780 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying, Proliferate

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About Merfolk Skydiver

Merfolk Skydiver is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue and green creature from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC), a Commander product released in November 2023. It is collector number 277 in that set, with art by Sara Winters. It costs {G}{U} (one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets, from War of the Spark (2019) to The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.26 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

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.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Merfolk Skydiver by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Merfolk Skydiver

Merfolk Skydiver has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
War of the Spark (WAR) #205Uncommon2019

Official rulings

Seven official rulings apply to Merfolk Skydiver, newest first.

  • 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.
  • An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You may choose Merfolk Skydiver as the target of its own ability.

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