Proteus Machine

What looks like a tribal enabler is really a design experiment dressed as one. The face-up trigger lets you stamp any creature type onto a plain 2/2 body, permanently, which on paper is the ultimate tribal Swiss Army knife: declare it a Goblin, a Wizard, a Soldier, whatever your lords reward. The catch is everything else about the body. You get a 2/2 with no combat-relevant abilities beyond the type itself, so the only payoff comes from cards that care about types rather than what the creature actually does. The free morph cost is the genuinely clever part: most morphs charge a premium to flip and reveal a real threat, but here the flip costs nothing because there is nothing to reveal. You are paying three to put a blank 2/2 on the table, then flipping for zero to relabel it. That inversion (cheap flip, empty payload) is what makes it a curiosity rather than a staple. Type-matters builds almost always prefer creatures that contribute a body and a relevant ability, and a Shapeshifter that becomes one creature type without bringing anything else struggles to earn the slot. The honest read is that this is a clean piece of rules technology asking for a deck built entirely around tribal triggers and nothing else, the kind of all-in tribal shell that tends to want bodies with teeth instead.