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The Balrog, Durin's Bane

· Legendary Creature — Avatar Demon · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

308

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

The Balrog, Durin's Bane

Legendary Creature — Avatar Demon

This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this turn. Haste The Balrog can't be blocked except by legendary creatures. When The Balrog dies, destroy target artifact or creature an opponent controls.

7 / 5

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Kekai Kotaki

Final zone distribution

25 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 11 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 5 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
4 The Balrog, Durin's Bane 4 decks
5 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 2 decks
6 Ognis, the Dragon's Lash 2 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 2 decks
8 Shadow the Hedgehog 2 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks
10 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

70 brought · 41 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

13 of 100 times cast 13%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.