Overlord of the Balemurk
Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror · 5/5
Impending 5— (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.
- CommanderLegal
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperNot legal
Selling Overlord of the Balemurk?
We pay 50% of a card's market value in cash, or 70% in store credit, for cards worth more than $1. For the cheapest printing of Overlord of the Balemurk, that's about $9.65 cash or $13.51 in credit.
All 6 printings and prices
| Set | # | Released | Nonfoil | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duskmourn: House of Horror DSK | 391 | Sep 2024 | – | $68.59 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror DSK | 401 | Sep 2024 | – | $318.48 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror DSK | 377 | Sep 2024 | $22.52 | $24.38 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos PDSK | 113s | Sep 2024 | – | $29.96 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror DSK | 113 | Sep 2024 | $19.79 | $21.43 |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos PDSK | 113p | Sep 2024 | $19.30 | $21.03 |
TCGplayer market, near mint, Oct 16, 2026.
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Rulings
If you choose to pay the impending cost rather than the mana cost, you're still casting the spell. It goes on the stack and can be responded to, countered, and so on.
If you choose to pay the impending cost of a creature spell, it's still a creature spell on the stack. You can cast that spell for its impending cost only when you could normally cast that creature spell. Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty.
"Impending N–[cost]" is a keyword that represents multiple abilities. The official rules are as follows: (a) You may choose to pay [cost] rather than pay this spell's mana cost. (b) If you chose to pay this spell's impending cost, it enters the battlefield with N time counters on it. (c) As long as this permanent has a time counter on it, if it was cast for its impending cost, it's not a creature. (d) At the beginning of your end step, if this permanent was cast for its impending cost, remove a time counter from it.
You may return any non-Avatar creature card or any planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand with Overlord of the Balemurk's last ability, not just one you milled while resolving that ability.
If an object enters as a copy of a permanent that was cast with its impending cost, it won't enter with time counters, and it will be a creature.
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