Morbius the Living Vampire
Legendary Creature — Vampire Scientist Villain
Flying, vigilance, lifelink
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #13924
Morbius the Living Vampire puts a Flying, Lifelink body into play while simultaneously loading your graveyard with three keyword counters — the kind of two-for-one that justifies its slot before you ever activate anything. The cost is real: you're paying four mana for a 3/3, and the value lives in what you do with those counters afterward, which means Morbius the Living Vampire punishes you hard if it eats a removal spell on entry.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Indominus Rex, Alpha
Indominus Rex, Alpha hunts for exactly this — a single card that mills three keyword counters into the graveyard at instant speed of resolution, giving Indominus Rex, Alpha immediate access to Flying and Lifelink without burning multiple card slots to assemble them. Morbius the Living Vampire is one of the most efficient counter-delivery systems the deck can run.
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 |
In Commander, Morbius the Living Vampire is a role-player in graveyard-keyword-counter shells and is nearly irrelevant outside them — the rate is too slow for a generic vampire or lifegain deck at four mana. Competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest in a 3/3 for four that mills keyword counters; the effect doesn't map onto anything those formats want to do. Pioneer and Standard are the same story unless a dedicated keyword-counter deck emerges to give Morbius the Living Vampire a home, which has not happened at a meaningful level.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Morbius the Living Vampire is bulk — pick it up for essentially nothing if the synergy applies to your deck. Bulk rares with narrow application don't hold value, so there's no reason to hesitate or stockpile.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Indominus Rex, Alpha
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.