High Perfect Morcant
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
Whenever High Perfect Morcant or another Elf you control enters, each opponent blights 1. (They each put a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control.)
Tap three untapped Elves you control: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $1.57
- EDHREC rank
- #4917
High Perfect Morcant lands and immediately starts converting Elf tokens into a growing board state, functioning like a Flourishing Defenses that keeps going as long as your elves keep dying. The seven-mana cost is steep, but in Lathril, Blade of the Elves decks that generate tokens by the dozen, the payoff compounds fast enough to justify it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lathril, Blade of the Elves
Lathril, Blade of the Elves wants a wide board of Elves, and High Perfect Morcant turns every creature death — whether from combat, sacrifice, or removal — into a replacement body, keeping the mass tap ability online consistently.
Maralen, Fae Ascendant
Maralen, Fae Ascendant cares about Faeries entering the battlefield, and High Perfect Morcant's token generation from creature deaths slots cleanly into any go-wide Faerie shell that needs resilience against sweepers.
Tyvar the Bellicose
Tyvar the Bellicose builds around activated abilities on Elves, and High Perfect Morcant ensures the creature count stays high enough to keep fueling those payoffs even after opponents clear the board.
Abomination of Llanowar
Abomination of Llanowar's power and toughness scale directly with the number of Elves in play and in the graveyard, and High Perfect Morcant feeds both counts simultaneously by generating tokens when elves die.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
High Perfect Morcant is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is clearly Commander. Seven mana is too slow for competitive Legacy or Modern, where games end before it ever resolves. In Standard and Pioneer it's a fringe option for tribal Elf builds, but the lack of a critical mass of payoffs limits its ceiling there. Commander is where the cost-to-impact ratio flips — long games, token synergies, and tribal commanders make High Perfect Morcant a legitimate engine piece rather than a clunky top-end.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
High Perfect MorcantFlourishing Defenses
Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite proliferate; Reduce any number of opposing creatures' toughness to 0; Reduce any number of opposing creatures' toughness to 0 whenever an Elf enters under your control
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Current price
$1.57 cheap tier
At $1.57, High Perfect Morcant sits squarely in the cheap tier — easy to slot into any Elf tribal build without budget concern. It's a niche tribal piece with a dedicated audience, so the price is stable rather than likely to spike, but don't expect it to appreciate meaningfully outside a reprint driving it down further.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Flourishing Defenses
- Lathril, Blade of the Elves
- Maralen, Fae Ascendant
- Tyvar the Bellicose
- Abomination of Llanowar
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.