Animorph EDH

Commander / EDH Aggro Budget Casual Multiplayer RUG (Temur) Theme/Gimmick

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Creature (46)

• 1x Ainok Survivalist
• 1x Akroma, Angel of Fury
• 1x Aphetto Runecaster
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blistering Firecat
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Brine Elemental
• 1x Broodhatch Nantuko
• 1x Chromeshell Crab
• 1x Deepfathom Skulker
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Echo Tracer
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Fathom Seer
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hystrodon
• 1x Icefeather Aven
• 1x Ixidor, Reality Sculptor
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Kheru Spellsnatcher
• 1x Krosan Cloudscraper
• 1x Mischievous Quanar
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Quicksilver Dragon
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Riptide Entrancer
• 1x Riptide Survivor
• 1x Sagu Mauler
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Salt Road Ambushers
• 1x Serpentine Basilisk
• 1x Skirk Alarmist
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Temur War Shaman
• 1x Thelonite Hermit
• 1x Thousand Winds
• 1x Unblinking Bleb
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Voidmage Apprentice
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy
• 1x Willbender
• 1x Wood Elves

Land (35)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Contested Cliffs
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 3x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zoetic Cavern

Commander (1)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Obscuring Aether
• 1x Secret Plans
• 1x Trail of Mystery

Artifact (8)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Dream Chisel
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (1)

• 1x Glamerdye

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Creeping Renaissance

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Creature (10)

• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Deathmist Raptor
• 1x Dermoplasm
• 1x Dwarven Blastminer
• 1x Fortune Thief
• 1x Kadena's Silencer
• 1x Master of the Veil
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Shaper Parasite
• 1x Weaver of Lies

Artifact (4)

• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Scroll of Fate
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (1)

• 1x Paradoxical Outcome

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Experimental Frenzy
• 1x Guardian Project

Sorcery (1)

• 1x All is Dust

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Animorph

This is an EDH deck built around a theme: Morph creatures!

I chose Animar, Soul of Elements as the commander for its ability to reduce the Morph alternate casting cost of . Also, he can be Voltron and has good buit-in protections.

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Theme: Morph Creatures

The deck is mainly .
We have good blue Morph creatures bringing draws, counterspells, bounces and copy/steal effects.
Green brings ramp, beaters and draws also.

The color is here just as a splash that can be easily removed if you wish. In my list, it only brings two beaters (Akroma, Angel of Fury, Blistering Firecat) and a really cool unmorpher (Skirk Alarmist).
I think the manabase has too much red sources, but I need them to guarantee a turn three Animar.

Thus, if you don't like Animar (for example because of its threat level), you can easily switch to Kruphix, God of Horizons.

No Tutors

I play not a single one Tutor.

Why? We play green, a color with lots of tutors for creature! And we play 50% of creatures!
I agree, but those tutors don't have Morph (outside of the theme) and they will reveal the Morph creature I tutorized. I want to stay stealthy as much as possible.

No Sol Ring

It's true that it's weird to see an EDH deck without Sol Ring.
The fact is this manarock doesn't allow me a turn-2 Animar, or isn't related to the theme, convinced me to drop it.
At least my ramp creatures are interactive with Animar (cost reduction). Sol Ring is just an uninteresting card for the theme.

But sure! Play it yourself if you wish. Just replace Wood Elves or Sakura-Tribe Elder!

Exceptions to the Theme

Some cards are outside the theme: mainly card-advantage effects (Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Bident of Thassa, Creeping Renaissance, etc...), ramp effects (Birds of Paradise, Wood Elves, etc...) and removals (Phyrexian Ingester, Duplicant). I made those exceptions because the deck can quickly run out of gas and had difficulty to manage opponent's creatures. Those problems cannot be fixed with Morph creatures only, and the deck will just die to the first Wrath effect without good drawing effects.

Blink Effects

The Morph Bouncers are Cloudstone Curio, Crystal Shard, Equilibrium, and Temur Sabertooth.
Also, Morph creatures with bounce abilities (Echo Tracer, Icefeather Aven) can be considered as Morph bouncers.
They are used for multiple purposes:

• Creature protection (blink).

• Attack deterrent (blink opponent's creature).

• Morph cycling (re-using its unmorph effect).

• Deceiving (bounce a morph then cast another one).

• and Comboing off (Cloudstone Curio and two Morph creatures generate an "Big Furry Monster Animar").

Casual & Budget

This is clearly a casual EDH. Do not expect to win frequently. But the deck is very fun to play because it brings so much deceiving to your opponents. They never know what you are going to do!

This can be a budget deck if you change de manabase (I use a lot of fetchlands and ravlands to guarantee an Animar turn three). Taplands are a great cheaper option, at the price to slow the deck a bit.
The moxes (Chrome Mox and Mox Diamond) can also be switched to lands or ramp effects to decrease the price of the deck. They are here only to fix mana and to offer the possibility of a turn two Animar (like Birds of Paradise).

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Insect 1/1 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G
Folders	Stefouch EDHs, Decks, Commander Decks