The Balrog, Durin's Bane

The Balrog, Durin's Bane

Legendary Creature — Avatar Demon

Mana cost: {5}{B}{R}

How we read this card

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this turn.

static — costs less

Haste
The Balrog can't be blocked except by legendary creatures.

static — restricts what can block it

When The Balrog dies, destroy target artifact or creature an opponent controls.

triggered —

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, a creature dies.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Polymorph — Polymorph can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast — Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library
  12. Identity Echo — Identity Echo can put The Balrog, Durin's Bane onto the battlefield from your library

11 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Demon enters the battlefield — 284 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

When The Balrog, Durin's Bane enters:

  1. Blood Speaker — returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Be'lakor, the Dark Master — deals its power damage

an artifact in a graveyard — 1,226 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

The Balrog, Durin's Bane puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  2. Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer — can bring back
  3. Queen Kayla bin-Kroog — can bring back
  4. Beacon of Unrest — can bring back
  5. Narset, Enlightened Exile — can bring back
  6. Fallaji Archaeologist — can bring back
  7. T'Chaka, Venerable King — can bring back
  8. Goblin Welder — can bring back
  9. Saprazzan Bailiff — can bring back
  10. Tomakul Scrapsmith — can bring back

179 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 1,254 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

When an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to The Balrog, Durin's Bane:

  1. Party Dude — draws you 1 card
  2. Tezzeret's Touch — brings a card back
  3. Krenko, Baron of Tin Street — makes a token
  4. Shard of the Void Dragon — puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
  5. Kibo, Uktabi Prince — puts a counter on an Ape or Monkey
  6. Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Gremlin Infestation — makes a token
  8. Summoning Station — untaps itself
  9. Pain Distributor — deals 1 damage
  10. Fangren Marauder — gains you 5 life

32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

The Balrog, Durin's Bane puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back
  10. Quest for the Necropolis — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

When a creature dies thanks to The Balrog, Durin's Bane:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard

66 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

When a creature dies thanks to The Balrog, Durin's Bane:

  1. Glissa, the Traitor — brings a card back
  2. Salvaging Station — untaps itself
  3. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  4. Avatar Destiny — mills a card

463 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

When The Balrog, Durin's Bane attacks:

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — makes a token
  2. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Banon, the Returners' Leader — draws and discards

156 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When The Balrog, Durin's Bane attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

222 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog is one).

When The Balrog, Durin's Bane enters:

  1. Loran, Disciple of History — brings a card back
  2. Liliana the Repentant — mills a card
  3. Paleoloth — brings a card back

465 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.