Marrow Bats
Creature — Bat Skeleton
Flying
Pay 4 life: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #20325
Marrow Bats gives you a repeatable indestructible activation on a 4/1 flyer — relevant on any board where flying damage and surviving a wrath both matter. The catch is paying 4 life per activation, which is a real cost unless you're in a shell that treats life as a resource, like Rowan, Scion of War.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Marrow Bats sees virtually no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — five mana for a 4/1 is uncompetitive in those formats regardless of the ability text. Commander is the right home: life totals start at 40, life-as-resource commanders are common, and a repeatable indestructibility trigger on a flying body is meaningful in a slower, multiplayer context. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies at a smaller scale, though 20-life games make the 4-life activation hurt more.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Rowan, Scion of WarExsanguinateMarrow Bats
Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifeloss
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Rowan, Scion of WarStensian Sanguinist // ExsanguinateMarrow Bats
Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifeloss
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Marrow Bats is pure bulk — there's no price barrier to picking up copies, and demand is low enough that it's unlikely to move. Grab it out of a bulk bin if the deck calls for it; don't expect the price to change in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rowan, Scion of War
- Exsanguinate
- Greven, Predator Captain
- Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.