---
name: "Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper"
mana_cost: "{U} // {U}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Creature — Merfolk Wizard // Sorcery — Adventure"
colors: []
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: ["Mill"]
set: "PRM"
set_name: "Magic Online Promos"
collector_number: "78822"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Jana Schirmer"
oracle_id: "4f5096d4-bbb5-4a48-9dd0-9dabdd2ac125"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/merfolk-secretkeeper-venture-deeper-prm"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper
- **Mana Cost:** `{U} // {U}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Creature — Merfolk Wizard // Sorcery — Adventure
- **Keywords:** Mill

## Oracle Text
(No Oracle text)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Drowner of Secrets](/printing/drowner-of-secrets-lrw.md) — Creature — Merfolk Wizard
2. [Merfolk Mesmerist](/printing/merfolk-mesmerist-m12.md) — Creature — Merfolk Wizard
3. [Merrow Witsniper](/printing/merrow-witsniper-mor.md) — Creature — Merfolk Rogue
4. [Towering-Wave Mystic](/printing/towering-wave-mystic-jmp.md) — Creature — Merfolk Wizard
5. [Merfolk of the Pearl Trident](/printing/merfolk-of-the-pearl-trident-m13.md) — Creature — Merfolk
6. [Silvergill Adept](/printing/silvergill-adept-rix.md) — Creature — Merfolk Wizard

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Magic Online Promos (PRM) #78822
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Jana Schirmer
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2019-10-04)* Casting a card as an Adventure isn't casting it for an alternative cost. Effects that allow you to cast a spell for an alternative cost or without paying its mana cost may allow you to apply those to the Adventure.
- *(2019-10-04)* If an adventurer card ends up in exile for any other reason than by exiling itself while resolving, it won't give you permission to cast it as a permanent spell.
- *(2019-10-04)* If you cast an adventurer card as an Adventure, use only its alternative characteristics to determine whether it's legal to cast that spell. For example, if Giant Killer is exiled with the last ability of Vivien, Champion of the Wilds, you can't cast it as Chop Down.
- *(2019-10-04)* An adventurer card is a permanent card in every zone except the stack, as well as while on the stack if not cast as an Adventure. Ignore its alternative characteristics in those cases. For example, while it's in your graveyard, Giant Killer is a white creature card whose mana value is 1. It can't be the target of the triggered ability of Mystic Sanctuary.
- *(2019-10-04)* When casting a spell as an Adventure, use the alternative characteristics and ignore all of the card's normal characteristics. The spell's color, mana cost, mana value, and so on are determined by only those alternative characteristics. If the spell leaves the stack, it immediately resumes using its normal characteristics.
- *(2019-10-04)* If an object becomes a copy of an object that has an Adventure, the copy also has an Adventure. If it changes zones, it will either cease to exist (if it's a token) or cease to be a copy (if it's a nontoken permanent), and so you won't be able to cast it as an Adventure.