Merfolk Spy

one blue mana Creature — Merfolk RoguePower and toughness1/1

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals a card at random from their hand.

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Merfolk Spy rulings

2010-08-15
Islandwalk cares about lands with the land type Island, not necessarily lands named Island.
2010-08-15
The second ability triggers just once each time Merfolk Spy deals combat damage to a player, regardless of how much damage it deals.
2010-08-15
After the second ability resolves, the revealed card stops being revealed in its owner’s hand.
2010-08-15
The next time Merfolk Spy deals combat damage to the same player, the card that’s revealed at random may be the same card or may be a different card.

Merfolk Spy keyword rules

Landwalk Rule 702.14

Landwalk is a generic term that appears within an object’s rules text as “[type]walk,” where [type] is usually a land type, but it can also be the card type land plus any combination of land types, card types, and/or supertypes.

Landwalk is an evasion ability.

A creature with landwalk can’t be blocked as long as the defending player controls at least one land with the specified land type (as in “islandwalk”), with the specified type or supertype (as in “artifact landwalk”), without the specified type or supertype (as in “nonbasic landwalk”), or with both the specified type or supertype and the specified subtype (as in “snow swampwalk”). (See rule , “Declare Blockers Step.”)

Landwalk abilities don’t “cancel” one another.

Multiple instances of the same kind of landwalk on the same creature are redundant.