The Balrog of Moria

The Balrog of Moria

Legendary Creature — Avatar Demon

Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}{R}

How we read this card

Trample, haste
When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it.

triggered —

When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls.

triggered —

Cycling {3}{R}
When you cycle this card, create two Treasure tokens.

triggered — makes 2 tokens

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, exile a creature, a creature leaves the battlefield, create a Treasure artifact token, put a Treasure artifact token onto the battlefield.

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

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

a creature is discarded — 206 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When The Balrog of Moria makes a player discard a card:

  1. Wharf Infiltrator — makes a token
  2. Bone Miser — makes a token
  3. Hashaton, Scarab's Fist — makes a token
  4. Surly Badgersaur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer — brings a card back
  6. Conspiracy Theorist — brings a card back
  7. Veronica, Dissident Scribe — makes a token
  8. Green Goblin, Nemesis — puts a counter on a Goblin

1 other card cares 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 of Moria is one).

When The Balrog of Moria enters:

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

a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When a creature is exiled thanks to The Balrog of Moria:

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  2. Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When The Balrog of Moria makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

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

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When The Balrog of Moria is exiled, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
  2. God-Eternal Oketra — When God-Eternal Oketra is exiled thanks to The Balrog of Moria, it triggers

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When The Balrog of Moria leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

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

a creature goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When The Balrog of Moria hits the graveyard:

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  2. Robot Domination — draws you 1 card
  3. Voracious Brood — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  4. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers
  5. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — triggers
  6. Sefris of the Hidden Ways — triggers

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

a token enters the battlefield — 3,710 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When a Treasure enters thanks to The Balrog of Moria:

  1. Baron Bertram Graywater — makes a token
  2. Marneus Calgar — draws you 1 card
  3. Belladonna Took — gains you 1 life
  4. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  5. Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed — makes a token
  6. Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards — draws you 1 card
  7. Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost — becomes prepared

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

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When The Balrog of Moria makes a player draw a card, Toothy, Imaginary Friend puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — When The Balrog of Moria is in the graveyard, Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring it back

443 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 of Moria is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When The Balrog of Moria attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token

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