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Not at all bad for a common flier of its age; it still had a role in Limited as Pit Imp and Phyrexian Battleflies several years later. Any early 'tings you inflict with cards like this will be much more mana-intensive than they're worth in Constructed, but just fine in Limited, and Flying gives this a role even much later in the game in the latter, when you aren't likely to care much about the mana.

WTF!? Why is this NOT a vampire??? VAMPIRE bats. Come on!

I will play this card again if they errata the creature type.

Of course its not a vampire. Its a vampire bat.
Not all vampires turn into bats. Not all bats turn into vampires. Sengir Nosferatu turns into a bat; Kalitas, bloodchief of ghet does not.
Vampire bats exist in real life, you know. Which, of course, means black mana does as well.

What did baby shrew say to his mother when he saw an bat?

"When I grow big, I want to join airforces!"

I'd like to see this colorshifted to red, perhaps without the 2-per-turn restriction. Yes, I know red is bad at flying.
Came up with the idea by applying the Tireless Tribe -> Temple Acolyte relationship to Firefly.

Wow... THIS CARD SUCKS!

I'm pretty sure everyone I knew had identical reactions to reading over this card.

"So-so chump for , but who the hell is Theodore Roethke?"

Back when Magic flavor text namechecked obscure authors (and Shakespeare) for no particular reason at all.

Legends Limited bomb.