Marrow Bats
Commander 2013 82 • uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Collector number
- 82
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Jason A. Engle
- Market price
- $0.35
What it does
Flying
Pay 4 life: Regenerate this creature.
"No matter how far we push into Stensia, undeath will always remain in these lands."— Terhold, archmage of Drunau
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Marrow Bats was released in 2013 as part of the Commander 2013 preconstructed deck series, specifically appearing in the Evasive Maneuvers deck. The card was designed to support the set's focus on multiplayer mechanics, utilizing the flying ability alongside a recursion effect that allows players to return the creature to their hand by paying life. This ability serves as a classic utility-based defensive measure, common in the black color pie for Commander gameplay.
The artwork for Marrow Bats was illustrated by Nils Hamm, who has contributed extensively to the Magic: The Gathering aesthetic. Hamm's work on this piece employs his signature atmospheric style, emphasizing the grim, skeletal nature of the bats through dark, ethereal lighting. Upon release, the card was received as a functional, if niche, inclusion for life-drain and reanimation strategies, fitting into the broader design philosophy of providing resilient, recurring threats for longer, slower-paced multiplayer matches.
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