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$0.21
USD foil
$0.30
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€0.09
MTGO
0.01 tix
Lash of the Balrog
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay 
.
Destroy target creature.
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR #408)
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana value
- 1
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Artist
- Colin Boyer
- EDHREC rank
- #7,289
- Colour identity
- 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
0.30
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Legal
Premodern
Not legal
PreDH
Not legal
Pauper EDH
Legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Legal
Rulings
- 2023-06-16
Players can respond to Lash of the Balrog only after it's been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to stop you from casting this spell or to make it cost more mana.
- 2023-06-16
You must sacrifice exactly one creature or pay an extra
to cast this spell; you can't cast it without paying one of those costs, and you can't pay either multiple times.