Darting Merfolk
Creature — Merfolk
: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #25110
Darting Merfolk trades a blue mana to bounce itself back to your hand — a built-in reset that dodges removal and replays any enter-the-battlefield trigger you need. Useful only in decks that actively exploit that loop; everywhere else it's a 1/1 that does nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Darting Merfolk sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — the bounce-itself effect is too slow and too mana-intensive to matter in those formats. Pauper is its best non-Commander home, where commons-only ETB decks occasionally want a repeatable blink on a stick, though even there it rarely makes the cut. In Commander, the card only earns a slot under a Merfolk tribal commander like Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca or an ETB-loop commander like Tameshi, Reality Architect, where the self-bounce generates real value rather than just tempo.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Darting Merfolk is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than order. It won't appreciate; demand is too narrow for the price to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.