Boan Venter makes his 100th Edinburgh appearance and Mosese Tuipulotu returns from a nine-month injury absence in Friday night’s URC game against Scarlets at the Hive.
Springbok Venter will become the club’s 46th centurion and only seventh prop to reach the milestone in Edinburgh history.
Dylan Richardson and Marshall Sykes to the starting XV after injury, while fellow internationals D’arcy Rae and Magnus Bradbury are released from Scotland’s Six Nations camp to feature.
Winger Malelili Satala makes his home debut and James Lang shifts to outside centre as Tuipulotu returns to the midfield for his first outing since suffering a knee injury last May.
Edinburgh are 13th in the URC table, seventh points adrift of the top eight with eight games left of the regulation campaign.
«We are confident because the destiny is in our hands,» said head coach Sean Everitt.
«Every point that you can muster between now and the end of the season is of the utmost importance.
«Your home games become vital to get a result. We’re going to have to show the same fight as we did at the end of last season to be able to come through.»
Edinburgh: Paterson; Satala, Lang, Tuipulotu, Goosen; Thompson, Vellacott; Venter, Morris, Rae, Sykes, Young, Muncaster, Richardson, Bradbury.
Replacements: J Blyth-Lafferty, Whitcombe, O Blyth-Lafferty, Hunter-Hill, Boyle, Shiel, Scott, O’Conor.