Bats br2-br3 by user9681584

Format: Commander

Commander: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Bat Tribal and lifegain-drain midrange strategy commanded by Zoraline, Cosmos Caller. The primary game plan curves low-cost flying Bats into Zoraline to generate consistent lifegain triggers and repeatable recursion from the graveyard. The deck mitigates Zoraline's finality counter drawback using counter-manipulation tools such as Solemnity, Hex Parasite, Thrull Parasite, Ferropede, and Nesting Grounds, allowing repeated reuse of key utility creatures. As the flying army expands, the deck leverages drain multipliers like Starscape Cleric, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Mirkwood Bats alongside Roaming Throne to rapidly reduce opposing life totals. Alternate closing lines include massive burst life gain and loss combinations such as Vizkopa Guildmage with Beacon of Immortality or casting Approach of the Second Sun. The deck excels at grinding value and sustaining high life totals, though it remains vulnerable to well-timed board sweepers and lacks generic stack-based countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Belfry Spirit
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Hunter
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Courier Bat
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Ferropede
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Ghastly Gloomhunter
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grimclaw Bats
  • 1 Hazel's Nocturne
  • 1 Hex Parasite
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lupinflower Village
  • 1 Malakir Familiar
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moonrise Cleric
  • 1 Moonstone Eulogist
  • 1 Moonstone Harbinger
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Regal Bloodlord
  • 1 Revival // Revenge
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sanguine Evangelist
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Sinister Monolith
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Sonar Strike
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Star Charter
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Starlit Soothsayer
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starseer Mentor
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thrull Parasite
  • 1 Treacherous Greed
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Wax-Wane Witness
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller