Blessed by Bats by mcquitadamo

Format: Commander

Commander: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Bat typal midrange strategy led by Zoraline, Cosmos Caller. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-mana flying Bats that gain life upon attacking, triggering synergistic payoffs that drain opposing life totals and draw extra cards. Zoraline, Cosmos Caller serves as a persistent value engine, attacking each turn with vigilance to reanimate key creatures and utility permanents from the graveyard for just two mana and two life. As the flying army expands, damage multipliers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz, mass drain effects like Starscape Cleric and Mirkwood Bats, and combat finishers like Akroma's Will turn incremental life swings into lethal table-wide pressure. The deck controls the tempo of the game with subtle stax pieces like Blind Obedience and Authority of the Consuls while shielding its wide board with top-tier defensive phasing spells like Teferi's Protection and Clever Concealment.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blighted Bat
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood
  • 1 Bloodhunter Bat
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Courier Bat
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dreaded Bat-Cloud
  • 1 Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Eyetwitch
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Folk Hero
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gurmag Swiftwing
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Malakir Familiar
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Momo, Friendly Flier
  • 1 Moonrise Cleric
  • 1 Moonstone Eulogist
  • 1 Moonstone Harbinger
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Palace Siege
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Regal Bloodlord
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruin-Lurker Bat
  • 1 Sanguine Evangelist
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin Markov
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Star Charter
  • 1 Starlit Soothsayer
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starseer Mentor
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Throne of the God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wax-Wane Witness
  • 1 White Lotus Tile
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller