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morph creatures can be free!

ok so it means it cost 1 less to unmorph the card? i wasnt sure if it meant that or it costed 2 to play a face-down card

This card does not change the cost of unmorphing a creature. if it would, the wording would've been somewhere along the lines of "face-down creature spells and morph abilities you cast cost less" (not exactly, but you get the idea)

Still, this makes you able to play creatures face-down for instead of the normal . Imagine if you've got 2 of these on the battlefield!: you can cast 2/2 creatures for ! And, to cite Thaviel: "Morph creatures can be free!" :D

anyone else picture a guitar in his hands?

Combine a playset of these with a playset of Training Grounds for some epic morph action.

This card makes me want to build Ixidor EDH :P

"For those about to Morph..."

I can hardly picture a less chisel-like object.

MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHYT MORPHING POWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWER RANGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Training Grounds does not effect Morph beacause Morph is not an activated ability. This will though, and so would any hypothetical card that says something about "Morph costs" specifically.

Edit: Scratch that, I don't know what I was thinking.

This only reduces the cost to play a creature (or land) with morph face down.

Should cost to make my morphs come in tempo on Turn 2. Birds of Paradise effectively makes my morphs cost less to play and It comes in tempo. Morph was weak to begin with and this card isn't making things that much better.

This card screams Iron Maiden.

The artwork looks like an album cover, the card's name sounds like a title track, and the flavor text would make perfect lyrics for said title track.

Very metal.

Toss a Centaur Omenreader in your deck and combo with this to get free face-down creatures :)

@Vedalken_Arbiter Sadly Morph is not an activated ability, it is a 'special action' so training grounds has no effect. It does combo beautifully with Ixidor though. To reduce morph costs a card would probably just say "Morph costs you pay cost up to less." On the bright side, for a similar reason, morph does not use the stack, which means it cannot be responded to, no one gets priority in response to it (Though they do after any triggered abilities that morphing might trigger)

Onto the card, that is not a chisel, and that is not a flattering picture of Ixidor. I agree that this card should cost . At it is still usable though, if you are dedicated to morph. I have an ixidor EDH deck and this is in there. It is useful, but even with 30ish morph creatures, it is not super great unless I start bouncing permanents back to my hand, or get it in my opening hand.