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Overlord of the Balemurk 
Oracle Text
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Overlord of the Balemurk, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 11 | 3.7 | 286 | 3.7 |
| Pioneer | 18 | 1.6 | 144 | 1.8 |
| Standard | 0 | 0 | 134 | 3.2 |
| Duel Commander | 1 | 1 | 65 | 1 |
| Legacy | 1 | 4 | 55 | 3.5 |
Details
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare
- Mana value
- 5
- Collector #
- 113
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Overlord of the Balemurk
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Lands (31)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Timeless Dragon
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (38)
- 1 Abstergo Entertainment
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Brightclimb Pathway
- 1 Caves of Koilos
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concealed Courtyard
- 1 Dust Bowl
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Fetid Heath
- 1 Flagstones of Trokair
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Shattered Sanctum
- 1 Silent Clearing
- 2 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 3 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (15)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Timeless Dragon
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (38)
- 1 Abstergo Entertainment
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Brightclimb Pathway
- 1 Caves of Koilos
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concealed Courtyard
- 1 Dust Bowl
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Fetid Heath
- 1 Flagstones of Trokair
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Shattered Sanctum
- 1 Silent Clearing
- 3 Snow-Covered Plains
- 4 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Lands (31)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fallaji Archaeologist
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
- 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Priest of Fell Rites
Sorceries (15)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Adarkar Wastes
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Tomb Fortress
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Timeless Dragon
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (38)
- 1 Abstergo Entertainment
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Brightclimb Pathway
- 1 Caves of Koilos
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concealed Courtyard
- 1 Dust Bowl
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Fetid Heath
- 1 Flagstones of Trokair
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Shattered Sanctum
- 1 Silent Clearing
- 3 Snow-Covered Plains
- 4 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
