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Bloodhunter Bat

Creature — Bat3 generic manaBlack mana

A four-point life swing stapled to a 2/2 flyer: that swing is the entire pitch, and the body is mostly a delivery vehicle for it. The drain triggers on a single condition, the creature entering, so there is no loop to assemble and no engine to protect; you pay four mana, you take two off an opponent's clock and put two back on yours, and you keep a relevant evasive blocker afterward. That math is deliberately modest. The two-life increment is the kind of common-rarity drain that fills out a black tribal curve without ever threatening to be a build-around, and the flying body keeps it honest in combat long after the enters trigger has resolved. Cards in this template that want to matter usually find a way to repeat the trigger, through blink or recursion, and the bat does none of that work for you: it is a one-time payment that happens to leave a fair creature behind. As a member of the long line of "small flyer plus minor lifedrain" commons, it sits squarely in the inoffensive middle, designed for slower black decks that count incremental life advantage as a real resource rather than a rounding error.

Bloodhunter Bat (w17)
W17 · #15common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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