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CardName: Bats of Nanzandi Cost: {2}{W} Type: Creature - Bat Pow/Tgh: 3/1 Rules Text: Flying Creature spells you cast with flying cost {1} less. Flavour Text: Thousands of bats find homes in the spires on Nanzandi. Set/Rarity: Libelone Uncommon |
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less.
You know what? Bats are also white now. Deal with it.
This is based upon bat species often living in colonies.
Awkward color-shifted comparison to Warden of Evos Isl (Watcher of the Spheres related perhaps).
Yeah,
already gets birds, this seems like a perfectly fine bird.
Also, considering the reference cards, this could easily be a 2/2 (
gets better creatures than 
), probably also a 3/1 or a 1/3, since that's the same stats just reordered.
I don't think it would break any formats to make this a 3/2 or a 2/3, either, but it could definitely be a bit pushed... But, well, they've been pushing the Hell out of
weenies last time I checked!
I do like this flavor, though... but if you're looking for a
colony card, why not just reflavor a Plague Rat variant?
Honestly, this card might make more sense as a bird, but I really like the flavor of this card... it's not really rules-problematic to make colorshifted creatures, it just messes with established flavor on most plaes...
Thing is though, I find it silly to insist that on some planes, bats couldn't be
! Hell, given the right flavor treatment, I wouldn't mind seeing elves be 
!
Mechanically, however, it's difficult to do this with more established tribes, since they more or less have a mechanical identity! Bats are, like, tertiary creature types, though, so this doesn't feel nonbat, except that it's not in the colors we usually see.
For a 1-off card, I don't mind it.
Even if you keep it as a bat, this should at least be 2/2 (if you don't want to duplicate the warden into
from 
, maybe add a stat point?)
given the right flavor treatment, I wouldn't mind seeing elves be
!
Plenty of fiction has elves as capricious, impulsive being who have difficulty seeing other people's point of view. Or as passionate warriors. Indeed, looking at cards already printed, including multicolour, B and W have more elves than U and R, to my somewhat surprise.
Bats certainly make sense in W, there's nothing actually very B about bats other than "night" and "churchyards". But it's nice for MTG to have a split in what animals appear in each colour.
Followed Froggychum's advice and switched p/t from 1/1 to 3/1