Lash of the Balrog card art

Lash of the Balrog

Sorcery MV 1

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay 4.

Destroy target creature.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-06-16

    Players can respond to Lash of the Balrog only after it's been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to stop you from casting this spell or to make it cost more mana.

  • 2023-06-16

    You must sacrifice exactly one creature or pay an extra 4 to cast this spell; you can't cast it without paying one of those costs, and you can't pay either multiple times.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Lash of the Balrog, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Temmet, Naktamun's Will 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 1 deck

Every version of Lash of the Balrog

3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lash of the Balrog. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.