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 we read on this card

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 — 876 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

  1. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put The Balrog of Moria onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put The Balrog of Moria onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put The Balrog of Moria onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast — Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast can put The Balrog of Moria onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Dreamshaper Shaman — Dreamshaper Shaman can put The Balrog of Moria onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Identity Echo — Identity Echo can put The Balrog of Moria onto the battlefield from your library

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

a creature is discarded — 88 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

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

  1. Bone Miser — makes a token
  2. Surly Badgersaur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Conspiracy Theorist — brings a card back
  4. Veronica, Dissident Scribe — makes a token
  5. 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 — 215 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

  1. Blood Speaker — When The Balrog of Moria enters, Blood Speaker returns itself from the graveyard

a creature is exiled — 373 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

  1. Ashnod's Intervention — When a creature is exiled thanks to The Balrog of Moria, Ashnod's Intervention brings a card back

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 1,069 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors 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. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  6. Glint-Horn Buccaneer — deals 1 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

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

anything leaves a graveyard — 1,168 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors 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. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  4. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  5. Fang, Fearless l'Cie — draws you 1 card
  6. Spirit of Resilience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Fuming Effigy — deals 1 damage
  8. Advanced Reconstruction — deals 2 damage
  9. Teval's Judgment — triggers

a creature goes to a graveyard — 1,722 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors 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

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

a token is created — 1,303 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When The Balrog of Moria makes a Treasure token:

  1. Idol of Oblivion — draws you 1 card
  2. Mirkwood Bats — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a card is drawn — 1,181 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

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

  1. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  3. Psychosis Crawler — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Sheoldred, the Apocalypse — gains you 2 life
  5. Spiteful Visions — deals 1 damage
  6. Moonring Mirror — exiles a card from your library

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

a creature leaves the battlefield — 1,966 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to The Balrog of Moria:

  1. Extractor Demon — mills a card
  2. Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
  3. Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature

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

an artifact enters the battlefield — 3,087 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When a Treasure enters thanks to The Balrog of Moria:

  1. Underhanded Designs — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Hedron Detonator — deals 1 damage
  3. Pactdoll Terror — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Machinesmith Automaton — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Oreplate Pangolin — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Arcbound Crusher — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Towashi Songshaper — gets +1/+0
  8. Arcbound Condor — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  9. Glaze Fiend — gets +2/+2
  10. Quicksmith Genius — draws and discards

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

a card in a graveyard — 3,858 cards in The Balrog of Moria's colors can cause this (The Balrog of Moria is one).

When The Balrog of Moria is in the graveyard:

  1. Vessel of Endless Rest — can bring it back
  2. Heart-Shaped Herb — can bring it back
  3. Rescue from the Underworld — can bring it back
  4. Victimize — can bring it back
  5. Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern — can bring it back

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