TYPE
Sorcery

ABILITY
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}. Destroy target creature.

FLAVOR TEXT
Even as the Balrog fell, it swung its whip, and the thongs lashed and curled about Gandalf's knees, dragging him to the brink of the abyss. "Fly, you fools!" he cried, and was gone.

ILLUSTRATOR
Antonio José Manzanedo

LEGALITIES
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LANGUAGES
DE EN ES FR IT JP PT ZH-CN

RULINGS

• 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.
• 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.