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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Dandan | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Judge's Tower | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Balor
Creature — Demon
Flying
Whenever Balor attacks or dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player.
- Target opponent draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.
- Target opponent sacrifices a nontoken artifact.
- Balor deals damage to target opponent equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Gidgetimer on What exactly triggers Riku of …
1 week ago
Balor isn't a modal spell. It is a creature spell, and the creature represented by the card has a modal ability. It has no interaction with Riku of Many Paths
purpleballspurple on What exactly triggers Riku of …
1 week ago
So I understand how Riku of Many Paths ability works with a spell like Simic Charm but was confused if casting a permanent such as Balor would work, does it even count as a modal spell and if so do I get to pick anything for Riku?
Thank you in advance
Niko9 on How Good is Pain Magnification?
1 month ago
Last_Laugh I agree with you, in commander it looks like a very snowballey enchantment. I think Pain Magnification might take the right deck to be great, it's not a rakdos staple, but in the right build it would absolutely be a must remove threat.
The main drawback I could see with it is that in commander players can get very salty about discarding and not everyone will have enchant removal, so you may become the archenemy when you play this.
Just throwing out ideas here, but Pain Magnification might be brutal in a rakdos Blade of Selves deck that runs Balor and Archon of Cruelty as reanimated blade carriers.
Gleeock on Why Do Recent Sacrifice Effects …
4 months ago
I love those effects. Balor has become a big pet-card for me. Chain Devil is fun.
A less-discussed aspect of this is how it enables strategies that are reliant on using cards out of opponent's graveyards. If sac-dependent decks only allowed for opponents to cherrypick their least important tokens all the time, then you would never see any cards (tokens not being cards & all) of importance going to opponent's graveyards & you would not be able to synergize with decks that like to resurrect out of opponent's graveyards (not without having to make a mill deck). Not that I advocate for cEDH Tergrid... but there are much more casual & interesting cards & decks that do this.
It also presents a good balancing option against death-by-Voltron, where a few voltron decks will swing tall with an important (hexproof/indestruct) card, then incidentally spit out some token-fodder.
WoTC has been HEAVY on the rapid token-pooping decks with low versatility lately as well, so I think it is nice to have options to balance that. Or make players have to add some versatility to token decks. Also, token decks can still "token it up" with this type of removal, it just may remove a piece of a token engine.
Last_Laugh on debuf
5 months ago
Pain Magnification, Kardur, Doomscourge, Vial Smasher the Fierce, Delirium, Backlash, The Ruinous Power, Balor, Emberwilde Captain, and Unquenchable Fury all come to mind as possibilities.
Gleeock on
Devil in the Details
1 year ago
Fun deck.
How about Balor? I just love that card and I always seem to ding someone with one of the abilities, the non token artifact really gets under the skin
Descent into Avernus is just great
City on Fire looks like a shoe-in. The new Phyrexians artifact hate devil seems good
Sleepysherlock on
Attacks
1 year ago
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