Morbius the Living Vampire
SPM · uncommon · Released 2025-09-26
Power
Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).
Derived from the 7 atoms below.
on rate
minor value alone
fits anywhere
scales up
one mode
broadly useful
comes back
Commander Bracket
Archetypes
No active conflicts.
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Risks
Mechanics
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Structural
Rationale
Morbius is a 4cmc 3/1 with flying, vigilance, and lifelink — a solid evasive body for Dimir vampire shells. His activated ability (exile from graveyard for {UB}) is a one-shot scry-3-keep-1 effect, providing graveyard-to-hand value and making him relevant even after death. At only 3 power for 4 mana and a 1-toughness body, he's fragile and underwhelming as a standalone threat, fitting better as a role-player in graveyard-value or vampire-typal decks.
Learnings (3)
The graveyard activated ability is a one-time effect (exiles the card to pay the cost), not a recursive engine — it functions similarly to unearth but yields card selection instead of a creature returning to play.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Morbius's 3/1 statline makes him extremely fragile in combat despite his full evasion suite (flying + vigilance + lifelink); in Commander he is likely to die before the lifelink matters meaningfully.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
In 1v1 Brawl the combination of flying, vigilance, and lifelink on a 4-drop is more impactful at 25 life, making the body itself relevant even without triggering the graveyard ability.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #13,583