Bat tribal by eritocardoso

Format: Commander

Commander: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This is an Orzhov Bat deck centered on Zoraline, Cosmos Caller. The commander turns life payment into repeatable recursion for low-mana-value creatures, while Bat attacks gain life and enable payoffs such as Starscape Cleric, Cliffhaven Vampire, and Mirkwood Bats. The deck has good creature and permanent removal, several lifegain-based draw engines, and a real combo in Exquisite Blood plus Sanguine Bond. Its main limitation is speed and access. Most ramp is fair-costed, many lands enter tapped, and the commander needs both a graveyard target and two additional colored mana after deployment. The normal game is therefore a value-oriented board build rather than a fast combo deck. The Bat board can become dangerous through repeated drain and evasive attacks, but the list does not reliably convert that advantage into a defined table kill. Protect the commander, establish a graveyard target early, and use removal to preserve the board until the lifegain payoffs compound.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cliffhaven Vampire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Courier Bat
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Dawn of a New Age
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fate Forgotten
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gurmag Swiftwing
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Malakir Familiar
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moonrise Cleric
  • 1 Moonstone Eulogist
  • 1 Moonstone Harbinger
  • 1 Orzhov Charm
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Plea for Guidance
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Regal Bloodlord
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruin-Lurker Bat
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Star Charter
  • 1 Starlit Soothsayer
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starseer Mentor
  • 1 Stirge
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Underworld Connections
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Wax-Wane Witness
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller