MTG Salvation

A Bant Morph and Manifest deck.

I have wanted to make one of these for awhile, but I didn't want to limit myself with Ixidor, Reality Sculptor. Bant seems like the best color for these type of shenanigans and I settled on Ragnar.

Ragnar isn't the ideal commander for a deck like this. He is 3 CMC so he runs right into Morph, and he doesn't exactly further the morph game plan. Roon of the Hidden Realm might be better for blink shenanigans, but what Ragnar doesn't have in substance he makes up for with style. Just look at him.



Pretty much what you would expect from a morph deck.

I'm looking for ways to squeeze more ramp and utility into the deck.

I'm trying to avoid non-creatures so I can get maximum utility out of Manifest, so any creatures that aren't ETB style would be great suggestions. Also anything that works well with Morph and Manifest that I missed would be very helpful.

I have assembled the deck and updated the list. I couldn't get my hands on a few good cards (Exalted Angel and Whisperwood Elemental) but I will be on the lookout for those.

I will hopefully be able to test out the deck tomorrow and see what kind of changes I should make.

Muraganda Petroglyphs makes all your morph creatures 4/4's. Also, some tutors for the morph enchantments could help like Long-Term Plans and Enlightened Tutor.

Crystal Shard is neat as well to bounce your creatures for additional trigger on the two enchantments. I'm curious to know how this deck performs. My own attempt to make a morph ended up being too mana hungry wanting to flip all the morphs.

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Muraganda Petroglyphs makes all your morph creatures 4/4's. Also, some tutors for the morph enchantments could help like Long-Term Plans and Enlightened Tutor.

Crystal Shard is neat as well to bounce your creatures for additional trigger on the two enchantments. I'm curious to know how this deck performs. My own attempt to make a morph ended up being too mana hungry wanting to flip all the morphs.

Nice suggestions, I'll be sure to try them out.

And yeah, I believe my main concern is going to be mana, I'm thinking I might have to grab Seedborn Muse and some creature tutors to make it work.

Seaside Citadel is a nice low-budget piece of color fixing that would slot in easily here. Diligent Farmhand is another variant of Embodiment of Spring (or vice versa since the druid's about 12 years older than the elemental) that's probably a little better than an elf.

Played a game last night where I pretty much did nothing. I think I will probably cut the sorcery Manifest cards because they aren't amazing, as well as the underwhelming morph cards. I've got some ideas on what to do, probably get some more deck manipulation in here, but Dragons of Tarkir looks like it will help this deck a lot, so I will probably wait until that is out for the next update.

Yea I have tried to make morph work in a few ways so far. The only 2 ways I had any success with were Animar and Zuur.

Animar makes casting your morph creatures free, but I don't really like infinite combos so much and that deck was just full of them. Might try it again without the combo enablers (Aluren and Cloudstone Curio)

Zurr was super fun though. I ran Astral Slide, about 30ish cycling cards and used the blink effect to flip over my morphs for free. The problem was I usually just ran out of gas eventually and lost. I might add some means of turtling like Magus of the Moat so i can keep attacking with things like Exalted Angle and friends.

Here is hoping DRK adds some sweet new cards that make it all come together (a morph anthem would be perfect)

I've been working on a BANT manifest/morph EDH deck but I'm using Rafiq as my commander. Rather than go for the blink effects, Rafiq allows me to nearly always put my opponents in a troubling place when it comes to blocking. My face-down 2/2 could unmorph into huge double striking monsters-- not exactly what you want to leave unblocked.

I'm trying to push this advantage by including lots of big creatures with ETB drawbacks that can be avoided through manifesting and flipping. Cards like Eater of Days, Leveler, Hunted Troll etc.

It's definitely a fun deck to play, although I'm not sure how competitive.

Here's the list:

An actual Dragons of Tarkir update.



Still a silly bad deck, but I'm slowly improving it. At some point I may end up cutting half of the morph cards, but I'm trying to make it work. Dragons obviously added a lot of nice cards for the deck, though I'm missing notable ones like Den Protector and Deathmist Raptor.