Card
Balthor the Defiled
Mana cost {2}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Zombie Dwarf 2/2
Minion creatures get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Exile Balthor: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · JUD · #61
- Cheapest printing
- €10.13
- EDHREC salt
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- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
2 known combos.
- Dual Nature + Balthor the Defiled + Basal Sliver
Produces: Infinite black mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Dual Nature + Balthor the Defiled + Blood Vassal
Produces: Infinite black mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2013-07-01 · Wizards of the Coast
You can only activate this ability if Balthor the Defiled is on the battlefield.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast