Magic: The Gathering

Bloodhunter Bat

Welcome Deck 2017 15 • common

Set: Welcome Deck 2017
Collector number: 15
Rarity: Common
Mana cost: 3 generic mana black mana
Type: Creature
Colors: Black
Artist: Tomasz Jedruszek
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$0.07market price via TCGplayer · Aug 7, 2026$0.07 – $0.09 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

Bloodhunter Bat is a common creature from the 2017 Welcome Deck, valued by players for its straightforward ability to drain life from an opponent upon entering the battlefield. Featuring artwork by Tomasz Jedruszek, it serves as a quintessential example of the "drain" mechanic that has been a reliable staple in black-aligned deck archetypes for years.

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What it does

Flying

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

It returns eager to share the feast of blood and gore with its ghoulish master.

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Provenance

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The Bloodhunter Bat was released in 2017 as part of the Welcome Deck series, a product line designed by Wizards of the Coast to introduce new players to Magic: The Gathering. These decks were curated to provide a simplified, accessible entry point into the game's mechanics, featuring foundational card types and archetypal creature designs that showcased the flavor of the game's various factions. As a common card in the black color identity, the Bat serves to demonstrate the 'drain' mechanic, where the creature rewards the player for its presence by taxing the opponent's life total.

The artwork for this card was commissioned from Tomasz Jedruszek, a prolific digital illustrator known for his atmospheric contributions to the fantasy gaming industry. Jedruszek focused on a gothic, predatory aesthetic to fit the black-mana color identity, emphasizing the creature's menacing silhouette and necrotic energy. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional, if modest, inclusion for beginners, praised for its clarity in illustrating basic life-link-adjacent gameplay concepts without complicating the board state for newcomers.

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