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Balrog Commander Commander
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Commander

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The Balrog of Moria

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.

Creature
The Balrog of Moria (ltc) 46

Commander

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Land

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Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (clu) 274
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (dsc) 266
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (otc) 279
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (mb2) 109
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Lazotep Quarry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color. {X}{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Lazotep Quarry (m3c) 131
Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dft) 286
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (clu) 243
Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Raucous Theater (mkm) 266
Rocky Tar Pit

This land enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Rocky Tar Pit (cmm) 1021
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (dmc) 233
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 283
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (dsc) 313
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375

Land

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Artifact

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Altar of the Goyf

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of card types among cards in all graveyards. Lhurgoyf creatures you control have trample.

Artifact Kindred
Altar of the Goyf (m3c) 282
Altar of the Wretched

Artifact
Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10
Bilbo's Ring

During your turn, equipped creature has hexproof and can't be blocked. Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Equip Halfling {1} ({1}: Attach to target Halfling you control. Equip only as a sorcery.) Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Bilbo's Ring (ltr) 298
Campfire

{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life. {2}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Artifact
Campfire (cmm) 374
Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Champion's Helm (pip) 228
Elbrus, the Binding Blade

Artifact
Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound (v17) 8Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound (v17) 8
Excalibur, Sword of Eden

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total mana value of historic permanents you control. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) Equipped creature gets +10/+0 and has vigilance. Equip legendary creature {2}

Artifact
Excalibur, Sword of Eden (acr) 72
Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible. Equip {4}

Artifact
Hammer of Nazahn (cmm) 388
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (fdn) 726
Hero's Blade

Equipped creature gets +3/+2. Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, you may attach this Equipment to it. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Hero's Blade (who) 241
Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Griselbrand (dsc) 145
Netherborn Altar

{T}, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Netherborn Altar (c20) 45
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (dsc) 254
Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance. Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. Equip {2}

Artifact
Tarrian's Soulcleaver (lci) 264
Thran Dynamo

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (blc) 290
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (mh3) 298

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (dsc) 160
Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (uds) 54
Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (m3c) 209
Corpse Explosion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Corpse Explosion deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to each creature and each planeswalker.

Sorcery
Corpse Explosion (snc) 179
Dreadbore

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Dreadbore (rvr) 180
Essence Harvest

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100
Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Exhume (dsc) 370
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (fdn) 712
Footsteps of the Goryo

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery
Footsteps of the Goryo (sok) 68
Geosurge

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast artifact or creature spells.

Sorcery
Geosurge (nph) 85
Irencrag Feat

Add seven {R}. You can cast only one more spell this turn.

Sorcery
Irencrag Feat (eld) 127
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Phyrexian Purge

This spell costs 3 life more to cast for each target. Destroy any number of target creatures.

Sorcery
Phyrexian Purge (mir) 273
Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Pyroclasm (dsk) 149
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (otc) 183

Sorcery

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Creature

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Alena, Kessig Trapper

First strike {T}: Add an amount of {R} equal to the greatest power among creatures you control that entered this turn. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Alena, Kessig Trapper (cmr) 160
Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Dimir House Guard (rvr) 73
Igneous Pouncer

Haste Swampcycling {2}, mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Igneous Pouncer (ddh) 57
Illuminor Szeras

Secrets of the Soul — {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature Artifact
Illuminor Szeras (40k) 37
Oliphaunt

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. Mountaincycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Oliphaunt (ltr) 139
Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature
Soldevi Adnate (all) 60a

Creature

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Enchantment

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Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Enchantment
Agent of the Shadow Thieves (clb) 108
Dawn of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Dawn of the Dead (tor) 59
Deadly Wanderings

As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch and lifelink.

Enchantment
Deadly Wanderings (dtk) 94
Dragon Cultist

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your end step, if a source you controlled dealt 5 or more damage this turn, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying."

Enchantment
Dragon Cultist (clb) 170
Gimli's Reckless Might

Creatures you control have haste. Formidable — Whenever you attack, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target attacking creature you control fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Enchantment
Gimli's Reckless Might (ltc) 494
Grasping Shadows

Enchantment
Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108
Guild Artisan

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, you create two Treasure tokens." (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Guild Artisan (clb) 179
Haunted One

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Enchantment
Haunted One (clb) 654
Hidetsugu Consumes All

Enchantment
Hidetsugu Consumes All // Vessel of the All-Consuming (neo) 221Hidetsugu Consumes All // Vessel of the All-Consuming (neo) 221
Tavern Brawler

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. You may play that card this turn."

Enchantment
Tavern Brawler (clb) 200

Enchantment

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Instant

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R}, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Burnt Offering (ice) 116
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (dsc) 162
Goryo's Vengeance

Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Goryo's Vengeance (uma) 99
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (j25) 456
Kazuul's Fury

Instant
Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Sacrifice (spg) 69
Shallow Grave

Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Shallow Grave (mir) 141
Showstopping Surprise

Choose target creature you control. Turn it face up if it's face down. Then it deals damage equal to its power to each other creature.

Instant
Showstopping Surprise (mkc) 35
Shred Memory

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Shred Memory (rav) 105
Spoils of Evil

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add {C} and you gain 1 life.

Instant
Spoils of Evil (ice) 163
Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (acr) 98
Wild Magic Surge

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a permanent card that shares a card type with that permanent. They put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant
Wild Magic Surge (clb) 206

Instant

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