Old Man Bolas • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Nicol Bolas

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay

.
Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

$3.49 $5.74 $1.04

Commander

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Hurkyl's Recall

Return all artifacts target player owns to their hand.

Instant

$1.99 $2.35 $0.85

Recoil

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Bounce

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Black Vise

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Artifact

$1.99 $3.79 $0.61

Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$1.99 $3.01 $0.61

Burn

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Clone

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$1.29 $1.50 $0.21

Copy

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Grip of Amnesia

Counter target spell unless its controller exiles all cards from their graveyard.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.79 $0.40 $0.19

Counters

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Blazing Specter

Flying, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature - Specter

$4.49 $2.92 $1.49

Crosis, the Purger

Flying
Whenever Crosis deals combat damage to a player, you may pay

. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

Legendary Creature - Dragon

$4.99 $4.56 $1.86

Doomsday Specter

Flying
When this creature enters, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.

Creature - Specter

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Dragon Mage

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature - Wizard Dragon

$2.79 $1.68 $0.78

Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for

.)
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card.

, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.38 $0.15

Hypnotic Specter

Flying
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Creature - Specter

$6.99 $7.65 $1.68

Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sorcery

$5.49 $6.70 $2.03

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.11 $0.98

Tourach, Dread Cantor

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Protection from white
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach.
When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$2.29 $0.98 $0.83

Discard

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Brainstorm

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

Instant

$2.99 $2.54 $1.22

Diabolic Vision

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library in any order.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.48 $0.19

Dream Cache

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.17 $0.15

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$2.99 $2.01 $1.00

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact - Book

$8.49 $10.00 $6.76

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact

$7.49 $5.22 $3.64

Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Artifact

$1.99 $3.06 $1.51

Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$1.79 $0.95 $0.31

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.43 $0.15

Draw

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Invisibility

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.99 $2.14 $0.48

Evasion

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Bad River

This land enters tapped.

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$2.49 $1.32 $0.52

Caldera Lake

This land enters tapped.

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.29 $2.06 $0.78

Crosis's Catacombs

When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

, or

Land - Lair

$1.99 $1.36 $0.69

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.99 $0.45 $0.27

Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.99 $0.43 $0.25

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$1.49 $0.59 $0.31

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.67 $0.18

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.59 $0.86 $0.25

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land

$0.39 $0.40 $0.20

Rocky Tar Pit

This land enters tapped.

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$0.79 $0.58 $0.15

Smoldering Marsh

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$0.79 $0.47 $0.25

Sunken Hollow

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

$1.29 $0.57 $0.34

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.79 $0.85 $0.26

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.)

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

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.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.46 $0.25

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.)

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.36 $0.15

Terramorphic Expanse

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.99 $0.34 $0.17

Land

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Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$8.99 $5.23 $2.86

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$3.49 $2.81 $2.08

Wall of Souls

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Creature - Wall

$2.29 $1.66 $0.68

Protection

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Bloodstone Cameo

: Add

Artifact

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add X mana in any combination of

and/or

, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant

$0.79 $1.40 $0.65

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $1.41 $0.36

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1.99 $1.52 $0.95

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$4.99 $4.75 $2.27

Drake-Skull Cameo

: Add

Artifact

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Fire Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $3.10 $0.52

Liquimetal Torque

: Add

: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact

$4.99 $3.15 $2.94

Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost

less to cast.

: Regenerate this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.99 $1.44 $0.80

Sculpting Steel

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

Artifact

$2.99 $2.12 $1.88

Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.79 $1.45 $0.26

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $4.03 $3.93

Ramp

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Raise Dead

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Restless Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Recursion

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Ashes to Ashes

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.54 $0.21

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.99 $0.48 $0.18

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant

$1.49 $0.79 $0.36

Crosis's Charm

Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.

Instant

$0.69 $0.39 $0.21

Earthquake

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Sorcery

$3.99 $1.09 $0.82

Icy Manipulator

: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.29 $1.16 $0.38

Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped.

: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Artifact

$6.49 $2.80 $1.70

Royal Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature - Human Assassin

$1.29 $0.59 $0.41

Sorceress Queen

: Target creature other than this creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

Creature - Human Wizard Sorcerer

$0.79 $1.26 $0.18

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$1.29 $1.27 $0.26

Terror

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$0.35 $0.42 $0.15

Tormod's Crypt

, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact

$2.29 $1.06 $0.26

Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Removal

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Ashen Powder

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.07 $0.73

Aura Thief

Flying
When this creature dies, you gain control of all enchantments. (You don't get to move Auras.)

Creature - Illusion

$7.99 $8.32 $7.46

Chamber of Manipulation

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "

, Discard a card: Gain control of target creature until end of turn."

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $1.00 $0.15

Control Magic

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.99 $0.95 $0.44

Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant

$3.99 $3.85 $1.72

Theft

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Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$2.99 $4.23 $1.02

Tutor

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Jandor's Saddlebags

: Untap target creature.

Artifact

$0.49 $0.72 $0.38

Untap

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Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.99 $0.33 $0.22

Crypt Rats

: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature - Rat

$0.99 $0.73 $0.50

Extinction

Destroy all creatures of the creature type of your choice.

Sorcery

$1.49 $2.73 $0.64

Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. Then that player mills X cards.

Legendary Creature - Zombie Phyrexian

$0.99 $0.42 $0.15

Legacy's Allure

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a treasure counter on this enchantment.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of treasure counters on this enchantment. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.31 $0.19

Lithoform Engine

: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Legendary Artifact

$7.99 $5.73 $5.01

Ravenous Rats

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Creature - Rat

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Syphon Soul

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Sideboard

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Arcane Laboratory

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment

$1.79 $0.86 $0.31

Black Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Creature - Human Knight

$0.69 $0.78 $0.22

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add

for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment

$8.49 $5.25 $5.19

Caltrops

Whenever a creature attacks, this artifact deals 1 damage to it.

Artifact

$14.99 $21.67 $9.22

Cannibalize

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Exile one of those creatures and put two +1/+1 counters on the other.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Cursed Rack

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Darkwater Catacombs

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.38 $0.21

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional

Instant

$1.29 $1.14 $0.47

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Lifetap

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Instant

$0.79 $0.45 $0.23

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.69 $0.29

Mogg Sentry

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature - Goblin Warrior

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Phyrexian Tyranny

Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless they pay

Enchantment

$2.49 $1.50 $1.12

Pithing Needle

As this artifact enters, choose a card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.55 $0.16

Pristine Talisman

: Add

. You gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

Quicksilver Amulet

: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact

$1.99 $2.53 $1.14

Shadowblood Ridge

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.39 $0.25

Shrieking Affliction

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Sickening Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

Sorcery

$6.49 $3.61 $2.69

Sol'kanar the Swamp King

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Enchantment

$7.49 $5.06 $3.95

Telepathy

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.81 $0.15

The Rack

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact

$1.79 $1.71 $0.26

Thran Dynamo

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $3.40 $3.37

Torpor Orb

Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Artifact

$8.49 $5.20 $3.64

Tortured Existence

, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment

$5.49 $2.12 $2.11

Voltaic Key

: Untap target artifact.

Artifact

$2.49 $1.11 $0.82

Wrench Mind

Target player discards two cards unless they discard an artifact card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $201.74

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.78Total Mana Value: 181.00

Quantity of

Bounce

Burn

Commander

Copy

Counters

Discard

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Fix

Land

Protection

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Theft

Tutor

Untap

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Deck stats

Cost

Production

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

26 pips - 21 cards

Production

21 mana - 20 cards

Cost

39 pips - 29 cards

Production

26 mana - 23 cards

Cost

11 pips - 9 cards

Production

16 mana - 15 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 3 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

4 mana - 3 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.78Total Mana Value: 181.00

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Protection

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