Mighty Morphin Kadena

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Morph

Peligrad

Creature (46)

• 1x Abhorrent Oculus
• 1x Ainok Survivalist
• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Aveline de Grandpre
• 1x Brine Elemental
• 1x Coral Trickster
• 1x Coveted Falcon
• 1x Deathmist Raptor
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Disruptive Pitmage
• 1x Dulcet Sirens
• 1x Echo Tracer
• 1x Exit Specialist
• 1x Experiment Twelve
• 1x Faerie Snoop
• 1x Final-Word Phantom
• 1x Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Hystrodon
• 1x Icefeather Aven
• 1x Kadena's Silencer
• 1x Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
• 1x Liege of the Pit
• 1x Maelstrom Djinn
• 1x Mistfire Weaver
• 1x Mistway Spy
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Nervous Gardener
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Orochi Soul-Reaver
• 1x Printlifter Ooze
• 1x Riptide Entrancer
• 1x Riptide Survivor
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satoru, the Infiltrator
• 1x Silumgar Assassin
• 1x Skittering Cicada
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Temur Charger
• 1x Thousand Winds
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Voidmage Apprentice
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy
• 1x Willbender

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Branch of Vitu-Ghazi
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Overflowing Basin
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zoetic Cavern

Commander (1)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Gift of Doom
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Ugin's Mastery
• 1x Wild Growth

Artifact (2)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (2)

• 1x Fell the Profane  ^Flip
• 1x Sink into Stupor  ^Flip

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Fun with morphs! This is a very carefully crafted morph deck that performs consistently well at mid-powered casual tables. If you're looking for an optimized Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer deck list that stays true to its identity as a "morph list" and wins using the morphs themselves rather than a thrown in combo or Craterhoof Behemoth, this is the list.

The deck prioritizes morphs that have low morph costs in order to take advantage of Printlifter Ooze as the premier win condition. The majority of the deck consists of morphs with low morph costs so that many creatures can be turned face up to trigger Printlifter Ooze.

There are also a reasonable amount of chonky morphs such as Maelstrom Djinn and Liege of the Pit to use with Experiment Twelve.

Finally, Aveline de Grandpre with a Ohran Frostfang can build a lethal boardstate.

The deck features ways to suppress your opponents to allow your board state to grow. Brine Elemental is present in the deck along with Hulkbreach Horror either of which can take over a game in this list for long enough for the morphs to do their work. Similarly, Thousand Winds can blow out an aggressive opponent's board state and buy the deck time to build.

The deck aims to rush Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer out early through ramp or to flash in Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter Final-Word Phantom or Skittering Cicada (or have Leyline of Anticipation in your opening hand) followed up by Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer on the following turn. Once Kadena and the ability to flash in morphs are on the board together, the plan is to flash in a morph every turn (including on each opponent's turn).

The deck prioritizes morphs and effects that can bounce your morphs back to your hand and replay them for card advantage. Luckily there are a handful of morphs that bounce creatures when turned face up. Hullbreach Horror can be backbreaking for opponents once you have Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer and a flash effect and enough morphs in hand to spam them each turn. It can also bounce your own morphs back to hand so they can be recast for the card draw and be turned face up again.

There are a select few, very efficient draw engines for the deck. Satoru, the Infiltrator triggers every time you cast a free morph or if you manifest a creature. Ugin's Mastery will trigger each time you cast a morph and put a second face down creature into play with Kadena on board, making it a strong card advantage engine. Toski, Bearer of Secrets, Orochi Soul-Reaver Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar and Ohran Frostfang take advantage of the morphs on board to generate card advantage out of them. While Abhorrent Oculus draws a card every upkeep with Kadena in play in addition to making a board state all on its own. This is all in addition to the morphs that themselves become draw engines and a Rhystic Study because it is such an efficient draw engine.

I typically try to avoid running tutors in decks but this deck requires many seperate components to function, namely a flash effect, a draw engine, and a win condition to close out a game. Because this deck has so many required parts to function, I found the deck really benefited from the tutors. Since it slowly and honestly builds a board state and requires turns of ramping and drawing cards to close out a game, the tutors don't lead to games where opponents didn't have an opportunity to interact with what you're doing. The tutors are as fair in this deck as tutors in casual EDH can be. I'd understand if a player wanted to pull them, but know that this deck will suffer greatly by doing so because of it's specific boardstate needs.

Date added	4 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 58 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.20
Tokens	A Mysterious Creature, Construct 0/0 C, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Ooze 0/0 G, Treasure