Merrow Commerce Blue Card in Magic the Gathering

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"MIKE LOPEZ: Hi. I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village. And today, we'll be discussing the blue cards from the blue block of Magic: The Gathering. And now, we're going to discuss Merrow Commerce. Merrow Commerce is one and a blue. It is from Lorwyn, which has initiated this new part of the game, which is called tribal enchantment or tribal instant or tribal sorcery or tribal spell. What this means is that not only is it an enchantment, it's going to come with a creature type. This creature-type in this instance is a merfolk. So therefore, it gets the benefit of merfolk abilities that are already in play. Hence, if you have a merfolk ability that cost less to play merfolk spells, this is a merfolk spell, and if it cost one less to play a merfolk spell, you can play the spell instead of the normal one and a blue, you can play it for just one blue, which makes it very powerful. Also, it has this ability that makes it also very powerful because this is an enchantment that is not an enchantment aura. It is a standard enchantment, which means it is a permanent, which means it stays on the table until your opponent can do something about it, whether that be disenchant or bounce it to your hand or anything of that nature. But what it does is, at the end of your turn, untap all merfolk you control. That's right. You untap all merfolk you control, which means you can attack across the board every turn and not have to worry about blocking because you will be able to untap all the merfolk you control at the end of the turn. And it may effect--it automatically happens, which means it cannot be negated by other spells. It is a set trip ability which affects the world around it. So the only way to stop this effect is to get rid of this enchantment. It is a very powerful uncommon enchantment. It's 40, 45 cents, which is essential to your merfolk deck."