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Nicol Ebola v4.2 (Current)
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Commander

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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Creature
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (pj21) 9Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (pj21) 9

Commander

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (blc) 294
Cliffgate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Cliffgate (clb) 350
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (lcc) 326
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (dft) 254
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (inr) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (one) 366
Izzet Boilerworks

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (otc) 302
Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (zne) 18
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 398
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (one) 368
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (mkc) 277
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (drc) 173
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (drc) 174
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 367
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (drc) 176
Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (drc) 177
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260

Land

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Removal

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All Will Be One

Whenever you put one or more counters on a permanent or player, this enchantment deals that much damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Enchantment
All Will Be One (one) 118
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (rna) 157
Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (mkc) 126
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (pip) 188
Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Crux of Fate

Choose one — • Destroy all Dragon creatures. • Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Sorcery
Crux of Fate (frf) 65
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (c14) 104
Dragonlord Silumgar

Flying, deathtouch When Dragonlord Silumgar enters, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.

Creature
Dragonlord Silumgar (dtk) 220
Dreadbore

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Dreadbore (gk2) 63
Hour of Devastation

All creatures lose indestructible until end of turn. Hour of Devastation deals 5 damage to each creature and each non-Bolas planeswalker.

Sorcery
Hour of Devastation (hou) 97
Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

+2: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. +1: Each opponent exiles two cards from their hand. −4: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls. −12: Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh (2x2) 260
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent. −2: Gain control of target creature. −9: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents of their choice.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (ddh) 42
Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver

+3: Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card. −3: Destroy target creature. Draw a card. −11: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to each opponent. You draw seven cards.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver (hou) 205
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (cmm) 113
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (acr) 98
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

+2: Ugin deals 3 damage to any target. −X: Exile each permanent with mana value X or less that's one or more colors. −10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (m21) 1
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Removal

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Copy

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Jaya's Phoenix

Flying, haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, copy the next loyalty ability you activate this turn when you activate it. You may choose new targets for the copy. Whenever you cast a planeswalker spell, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Jaya's Phoenix (cmm) 738
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant (neo) 59
Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature
Spark Double (rvr) 62

Copy

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Proliferate

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Ichormoon Gauntlet

Planeswalkers you control have "[0]: Proliferate" and "[−12]: Take an extra turn after this one." Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, choose a counter on target permanent. Put an additional counter of that kind on that permanent.

Artifact
Ichormoon Gauntlet (one) 56
Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Enchantment
Inexorable Tide (pip) 177
Teferi's Talent

Enchant planeswalker Enchanted planeswalker has "[−12]: You get an emblem with 'You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.'" Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on enchanted planeswalker.

Enchantment
Teferi's Talent (moc) 74

Proliferate

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Tokens

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The Locust God

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. {2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Locust God (moc) 335

Tokens

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Counters

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Cryptic Command

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Instant
Cryptic Command (mma) 38
Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Dissipate (isd) 53
Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card. Draw a card.

Instant
Dream Fracture (clb) 66
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Pact of Negation

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of Negation (a25) 68
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65

Counters

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Ramp

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Aetheric Amplifier

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}, {T}: Choose one. Activate only as a sorcery. • Double the number of each kind of counter on target permanent. • Double the number of each kind of counter you have.

Artifact
Aetheric Amplifier (drc) 18
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 653
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (v16) 2
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (rtr) 226
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (mkc) 226
Izzet Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Artifact
Izzet Signet (blc) 278
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (tmp) 294
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Relic of Sauron

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of {U}, {B}, and/or {R}. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Artifact
Relic of Sauron (ltc) 159
Skyclave Relic

Kicker {3} Indestructible When this artifact enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of this artifact. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Skyclave Relic (moc) 380
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc2) 7
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (blc) 284
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
Visage of Bolas

When this artifact enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Artifact
Visage of Bolas (hou) 208

Ramp

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (ss1) 6
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (6ed) 161

Tutor

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Draw

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Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (sta) 12
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (plg21) 3
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (a25) 46
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Curiosity

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Curiosity (wot) 17
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (dsc) 115
Jace, Cunning Castaway

+1: Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player this turn, draw a card, then discard a card. −2: Create a 2/2 blue Illusion creature token with "When this token becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it." −5: Create two tokens that are copies of Jace, except they're not legendary.

Planeswalker
Jace, Cunning Castaway (xln) 60
Jin-Gitaxias

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis (mom) 65Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis (mom) 65
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (plst) NPH-37
Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. −9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (fdn) 176
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield. +1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control. −3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker. −8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God (med) WS6
Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered. Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, Parun (otc) 235
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. {T}: Draw a card.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind (p30a) 14
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246

Draw

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Recursion

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Deliver Unto Evil

Choose up to four target cards in your graveyard. If you control a Bolas planeswalker, return those cards to your hand. Otherwise, an opponent chooses two of them. Leave the chosen cards in your graveyard and put the rest into your hand. Exile Deliver Unto Evil.

Sorcery
Deliver Unto Evil (pwar) 85s
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (plst) ISD-78
Torrential Gearhulk

Flash When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature Artifact
Torrential Gearhulk (cmm) 128
Volcanic Vision

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Volcanic Vision deals damage equal to that card's mana value to each creature your opponents control. Exile Volcanic Vision.

Sorcery
Volcanic Vision (c16) 137

Recursion

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Possible Revisions

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Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (cmm) 159
Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (wot) 23
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. −2: Target artifact you control becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature you control until end of turn, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Planeswalker
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer (drc) 119

Possible Revisions

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Version Change

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Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (m12) 73
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (dsc) 310

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Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
56 pips - 36 cards
26 mana - 25 cards
33 pips - 22 cards
36 mana - 26 cards
22 pips - 16 cards
23 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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