Meme or Dream? The Most Ambitious Dirge Bat Ever (Standard)

A few months ago, Wizards started publishing decklists from Magic Arena. To qualify for publication, a deck needs to win at least six matches in a row at platinum rank or better. This sounds simple on its face, but some incredibly janky lists end up being published every time lists are published. This has led to speculation that a bug in the system allows decks that didn't actually win six matches in a row to be published or, for the most tin-foil-hatted crowd, the idea that Wizards just publishes whatever it wants, to make the metagame look more diverse than it really is. 

This week, we had a deck suggesting that the Meme or Dream? community is slowly learning. While we don't have a full sideboard, we are all the way up to nine sideboard cards (well, assuming you actually count Zagoth Mamba as a legitimate sideboard card, but power level aside, anything is better than nothing), which represents an infinite-percent increase over last week's sideboardless deck. While the deck itself looks sort of like a Scute Swarm mutate strategy, it's missing some of the more common mutate cards and only playing two copies of what is likely the best mutate payoff in Auspicious Starrix. But what really drew me to the deck was the two copies of Dirge Bat. While Dirge Bat isn't a bad Magic card, when you consider that our deck has zero dual lands and only four Swamps, splashing any double-black card seems extremely ambitious. As such, we sort of have two goals today: figure out if this partially-sideboarded Jund Mutate Landfall pile is a meme or dream and also see just how ambitious it is to cast Dirge Bat in a deck with only four lands that tap for black mana!