Dementia Bat
Creature — Phyrexian Bat
Flying
, Sacrifice this creature: Target player discards two cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #26970
Dementia Bat gives you a flying body and a targeted discard effect stapled together, but paying five mana for a 2/2 that makes one opponent discard one card is a bad rate in any powered environment. Efficient discard and efficient evasive threats exist separately at lower costs — Dementia Bat combines both poorly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dementia Bat is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy, Modern, and Vintage has zero interest in a five-mana 2/2 with a minor discard trigger. Pauper is the one format where the bar is low enough that Dementia Bat could theoretically see play, but even there, cheaper and more reliable discard options crowd it out. In Commander, it occupies the bottom tier of discard payoffs — playable only in the most casual, theme-first builds where the Wizard typing or the flying body provides secondary value.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Dementia Bat is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the effect. That price is a ceiling, not a floor; demand isn't coming, so don't expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.