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The Balrog of Moria
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The Balrog of Moria

{4}{B}{B}{R}

Legendary Creature — Avatar Demon

Trample, haste

When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it. When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls.

Cycling {3}{R} ({3}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle this card, create two Treasure tokens.

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TreasureHasteTrampleCycling
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC #449)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
7
Released
2023-11-03
Artist
Rudy Siswanto
EDHREC rank
#4,705
Colour identity
{B}{R}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.13
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander
DrawRampRemoval

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Too Greedily, Too Deep 47 %+46.2 %
  2. Troll of Khazad-dûm 44 %+42.2 %
  3. Command Beacon 44 %+37.5 %
  4. Mines of Moria 42 %+37.4 %
  5. The Balrog, Durin's Bane 39 %+37.3 %
  6. Netherborn Altar 38 %+37.2 %
  7. Lash of the Balrog 34 %+33.5 %
  8. Oliphaunt 33 %+31.4 %
  9. Decree of Pain 34 %+30.0 %
  10. Old Thrush 29 %+28.3 %
  11. Key to the Side-Door 29 %+28.0 %
  12. Grave Upheaval 28 %+27.6 %
  13. Front Porch Sentries 29 %+27.4 %
  14. Last Light of Durin's Day 29 %+27.3 %
  15. Smaug's Fury 29 %+27.3 %
  16. Ragged Short Spear 29 %+27.2 %
  17. Crude Bent Blade 29 %+27.1 %
  18. Smaug, the Great Calamity 29 %+26.8 %
  19. Stony-Voiced Goblins 29 %+26.7 %
  20. Down, Down to Goblin-town 29 %+25.9 %
  21. Stinging Study 27 %+25.4 %
  22. Campfire 25 %+24.8 %
  23. Goblin Plate Mail 29 %+24.4 %
  24. Gathering of Darkness 29 %+24.0 %
  25. Great Ugly-Looking Goblin 29 %+23.8 %
  26. Tidings of War 29 %+23.3 %
  27. Misty Mountains Raider 29 %+23.3 %
  28. The Balrog, Flame of Udûn 23 %+23.3 %
  29. Rage into the Valley 29 %+22.9 %
  30. Living Death 27 %+22.6 %
  31. Rogue's Passage 42 %+22.5 %
  32. Fearsome Goblin Pair 29 %+22.2 %
  33. Thran Dynamo 27 %+22.2 %
  34. Shelob, Dread Weaver 22 %+21.7 %
  35. Wayfarer's Bauble 33 %+20.7 %
  36. Rampaging War Mammoth 20 %+20.1 %
  37. Mind Stone 47 %+19.7 %
  38. Animate Dead 28 %+19.1 %
  39. Wake the Dragon 19 %+17.8 %
  40. Cavern-Hoard Dragon 20 %+16.8 %
  41. Balor 19 %+16.8 %
  42. Smaug, Wicked Worm 29 %+16.4 %
  43. Glóin, Dwarf Emissary 17 %+16.3 %
  44. Rakdos Joins Up 20 %+15.9 %
  45. Phyrexian Reclamation 19 %+15.1 %
  46. Barad-dûr 17 %+15.1 %
  47. Unexpected Windfall 30 %+14.9 %
  48. Visions of Ruin 16 %+14.9 %
  49. Faithless Looting 42 %+14.9 %
  50. Merciless Executioner 16 %+14.4 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Swamp 98 %+0.8 %
  2. Mountain 98 %+0.9 %
  3. Sol Ring 78 %-7.8 %
  4. Arcane Signet 75 %-6.8 %
  5. Command Tower 63 %-23.5 %
  6. Dragonskull Summit 58 %-6.8 %
  7. Smoldering Marsh 56 %-7.4 %
  8. Blasphemous Act 53 %+1.7 %
  9. Rakdos Signet 52 %-4.8 %
  10. Too Greedily, Too Deep 47 %+46.2 %
  11. Talisman of Indulgence 47 %-8.4 %
  12. Foreboding Ruins 47 %+1.2 %
  13. Mind Stone 47 %+19.7 %
  14. Troll of Khazad-dûm 44 %+42.2 %
  15. Chaos Warp 44 %-3.2 %
  16. Feed the Swarm 44 %+2.9 %
  17. Command Beacon 44 %+37.5 %
  18. Rogue's Passage 42 %+22.5 %
  19. Faithless Looting 42 %+14.9 %
  20. Mines of Moria 42 %+37.4 %
  21. The Balrog, Durin's Bane 39 %+37.3 %
  22. Bedevil 39 %+5.5 %
  23. Vandalblast 39 %+9.1 %
  24. Blood Crypt 39 %-9.0 %
  25. Bojuka Bog 38 %+1.8 %
  26. Netherborn Altar 38 %+37.2 %
  27. Terminate 38 %-2.2 %
  28. Sulfurous Springs 38 %-10.8 %
  29. Rakdos Carnarium 36 %+5.8 %
  30. Decree of Pain 34 %+30.0 %
  31. Lash of the Balrog 34 %+33.5 %
  32. Rakdos Charm 34 %-8.9 %
  33. Oliphaunt 33 %+31.4 %
  34. Wayfarer's Bauble 33 %+20.7 %
  35. Reanimate 33 %+9.8 %
  36. Canyon Slough 33 %+13.3 %
  37. Tainted Peak 33 %-10.5 %
  38. Fellwar Stone 33 %-0.4 %
  39. Unexpected Windfall 30 %+14.9 %
  40. Thrill of Possibility 30 %+11.6 %
  41. Smaug's Fury 29 %+27.3 %
  42. Misty Mountains Raider 29 %+23.3 %
  43. Down, Down to Goblin-town 29 %+25.9 %
  44. Rage into the Valley 29 %+22.9 %
  45. Goblin Plate Mail 29 %+24.4 %
  46. Tidings of War 29 %+23.3 %
  47. Key to the Side-Door 29 %+28.0 %
  48. Crude Bent Blade 29 %+27.1 %
  49. Last Light of Durin's Day 29 %+27.3 %
  50. Ragged Short Spear 29 %+27.2 %

Format legality

Standard Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Not legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Brawl Not legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Historic Not legal
Timeless Not legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Not legal
Premodern Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Pauper EDH Not legal
Old School Not legal
Future Not legal
Gladiator Not legal
All printingsScryfall ↗Gatherer ↗Edhrec ↗

Rulings

  • 2023-06-16

    Some cards with cycling have an ability that triggers when you cycle them, and some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.

  • 2023-06-16

    Triggered abilities from cycling a card and the cycling ability itself aren't spells. Effects that interact with spells (such as Saruman's Trickery) won't affect them.

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