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Balance
CONTAINS BANNED CARDSComplexity: advanced
NEAR-INFINITE

Balance + Zuran Orb

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The Payoff

"One-sided mass land destruction / land lock"

Prerequisites

  • • Zuran Orb on the battlefield
  • • Balance in hand with white mana available
  • • Opponents committing more lands than you

Requirements

Balance

Balance

BannedSymmetrically reduces each player to the lowest land, creature, and hand count
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Zuran Orb

Zuran Orb

Sacrifice your own lands in response, so your land count is zero when Balance resolves
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The Combo: Storyboard

1

Step 1

Set up with Zuran Orb in play and Balance in hand, ideally when opponents have committed more lands than you.

2

Step 2

Cast Balance.

3

Step 3

In response, sacrifice all of your own lands to Zuran Orb, gaining 2 life per land.

4

Step 4

Balance resolves: with your land count at zero, every opponent sacrifices their lands down to match, wiping their mana base.

5

Step 5

Rebuild from the symmetric, landless position with a life cushion; Land Tax is the traditional refill engine (note: Land Tax is also banned in Premodern).

⚠ Rules Note

Sacrificing lands to Zuran Orb is done in response to Balance, while Balance is on the stack, so your land count is already zero when Balance checks each player's land total. Balance also rebalances creatures and cards in hand, so empty your hand and board first to make the symmetry one-sided. Balance is banned in Premodern (and Land Tax, the classic follow-up engine, is banned as well), so this is a historical interaction, not a legal deck.