Bat
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Bat | |
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Type(s) | Night |
Kingdom card? | No |
Set | Nocturne |
Illustrator(s) | Martin Hoffmann |
Card text | |
Trash up to 2 cards from your hand. If you trashed at least one, exchange this for a Vampire. (This is not in the Supply.) |
Bat is a Night card from Nocturne. It's a trasher, and if you do trash something to it, it turns back into a Vampire (which turned into Bat in the first place). It (and Vampire) are the only cards that exchange when played.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- The Vampire is put into your discard pile.
- If there are no Vampires in their pile, you cannot exchange Bat for one, but can still trash cards.
Other rules clarifications
Strategy
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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Trash up to 2 cards from your hand. If you trashed at least one, exchange this for a Vampire. (This is not in the Supply.) | Nocturne | November 2017 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | |
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German | Fledermaus | |||
Japanese | 蝙蝠 (pron. kōmori) | 手札から2枚以下のカードを廃棄する。1枚以上廃棄した場合、これを吸血鬼と交換する。(このカードはサプライに置かない。) | ||
Russian | Нетопырь (pron. nyetopyr', lit. vampire bat) |
Trivia
Preview
Of course there had to be a Vampire, and of course it turns into a Bat. That's what they do. Well vampires do tons of things, but that's one of them, and you can only capture so much in a Dominion card. Vampire gains you cards and Hexes people, while Bat is a trasher, and has to feed to turn back.
Secret History
Bat started out an Action, but people demanded that it be a Night card too. For a while it was a Duration card, that drew you a card if it didn't turn back. That made it not so bad to have late-game Bats stuck in your deck. Mostly Bat could trash a card, and whether or not you got your Vampire back depended on what you trashed. Later it could trash two cards and cared about how many, settling on "at least one." It didn't want to automatically turn back, but didn't want that to be difficult either.