Frickin' Bats by mrpaulie

Format: Commander

Commander: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Bat tribal aggro-midrange build commanded by Zoraline, Cosmos Caller. Built under a strict typeline constraint where every creature is a Bat, the strategy focuses on flooding the board with low-cost evasive flyers, triggering lifegain and lifeloss synergies, and recurring fallen pieces from the graveyard. Early turns establish an aerial presence with creatures like Ruin-Lurker Bat, Lifecreed Duo, and Essence Channeler, setting up Zoraline's turn-4 attack and reanimation engine. The deck converts combat lifegain into table-wide pressure using drain payoffs such as Starscape Cleric, Starseer Mentor, and Sanguine Bond, supported by top-end threats like Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal. While it packs dense, efficient single-target removal, its win condition relies on chipping down 120 opposing life points over multiple combat cycles. Consequently, it is vulnerable to mass sweepers and lacks stack-based disruption, but benefits from consistent internal creature redundancy and steady incremental value.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Angel's Mercy
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Bartizan Bats
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Blight Keeper
  • 1 Blind Hunter
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodhunter Bat
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Break the Spell
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Courier Bat
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Crumb and Get It
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Duskhunter Bat
  • 1 Early Winter
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Cycle
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghastly Gloomhunter
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glidedive Duo
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grimclaw Bats
  • 1 Gurmag Swiftwing
  • 1 Hazel's Nocturne
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lupinflower Village
  • 1 Malakir Familiar
  • 1 Moonrise Cleric
  • 1 Moonstone Eulogist
  • 1 Moonstone Harbinger
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Nocturnal Hunger
  • 1 Pacifism
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Potion of Healing
  • 1 Repel Calamity
  • 1 Ruin-Lurker Bat
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Savor
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Sinister Monolith
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonar Strike
  • 1 Sorin Markov
  • 1 Spectral Grasp
  • 1 Star Charter
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Starlit Soothsayer
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starseer Mentor
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Vampire Bats
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Wax-Wane Witness
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller