Screeching Bat // Stalking Vampire
Creature — Bat // Creature — Vampire
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, transform this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #23824
Screeching Bat // Stalking Vampire gives you a repeatable day/night transformer that becomes a 3/3 flier or a 5/5 trampler depending on which side of the clock you're on — all on a single permanent that costs three mana to cast. The transformation trigger fires at your upkeep for two mana, so you're paying a tax every turn to keep the form you want, which is where the card earns its niche status rather than a staple slot.
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 |
In Commander, Screeching Bat // Stalking Vampire is a low-priority include outside of dedicated day/night or vampire tribal builds — the upkeep cost to maintain Stalking Vampire form competes with everything else you want to be doing, and a 5/5 trampler is underwhelming at the mid-to-late stages of a four-player game. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; three-mana creatures that require ongoing mana investment don't survive contact with those formats. Modern is where the card has the most theoretical relevance, but vampire aggro there prefers one- and two-drops, so it rarely makes the cut. The clearest home is a Commander deck that specifically cares about day/night transitions — Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge and Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver adjacent builds — where the transformation trigger becomes a feature rather than a tax.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Screeching Bat // Stalking Vampire is bulk, and it will stay there — demand is too narrow to push a card with this level of conditional payoff above draft-chaff pricing. Pick it up freely if the synergy is real for your build; there's no financial reason to hesitate or hurry.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.