Nicol Bolas: Alpha Male • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Spellslinger

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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

$4.49 $1.36 $1.12

Commander

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Emeritus of Ideation

Flying, ward

This creature enters prepared.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile eight cards from your graveyard. If you do, this creature becomes prepared.

Creature - Human Wizard

Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall (sos) 45

$10.99 $6.06 $5.64

Sedge Troll

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.

: Regenerate this creature.

Creature - Troll

$3.99 $3.14 $1.55

Uthden Troll

: Regenerate this creature.

Creature - Troll

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Creature

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Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sorcery

$4.99 $5.06 $1.71

Discard

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Amass the Components

Draw three cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Ancestral Reminiscence

Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay

and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Target player draws three cards.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.23 $0.15

Arcane Epiphany

This spell costs

less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Draw three cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Braingeyser

Target player draws X cards.

Sorcery

$16.99 $17.27 $6.26

Brainstorm

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

Instant

$4.49 $1.58 $1.45

Careful Study

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Sorcery

$2.79 $2.17 $1.83

Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.16 $0.15

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Concentrate

Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Draconic Lore

This spell costs

less to cast if you control a Dragon.
Draw three cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Eagle Vision

Freerunning

(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.32 $0.15

Field Research

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Draw two cards. If this spell was kicked, draw three cards instead.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Focus the Mind

This spell costs

less to cast if you've cast another spell this turn.
Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Hieroglyphic Illumination

Draw two cards.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Ideas Unbound

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery - Arcane

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Inspired Idea

Cleave

(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Draw three cards. [Your maximum hand size is reduced by three for the rest of the game.]

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Mysteries of the Deep

Draw two cards.
Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, draw three cards instead.

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Perilous Research

Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.

Instant

$1.79 $0.27 $0.15

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

$1.79 $0.87 $0.75

Quick Study

Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Rain of Revelation

Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Reverse Engineer

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

.)
Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Rowdy Research

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature that attacked this turn.
Draw three cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Scour the Laboratory

Delirium — This spell costs

less to cast if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Draw three cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Secrets of the Golden City

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Draw two cards. If you have the city's blessing, draw three cards instead.

Sorcery

Secrets of the Golden City (plst) RIX-52

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

See Beyond

Draw two cards, then shuffle a card from your hand into your library.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Seize the Secrets

This spell costs

less to cast if you've committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Draw two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Thirst for Discovery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.

Instant

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Thirst for Meaning

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an enchantment card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Thoughtcast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs

less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Draw two cards.

Sorcery

$3.49 $1.90 $1.53

Timetwister

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

Sorcery

$9599.99 $6400.00 $5848.74

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Instant

$5.99 $4.23 $3.23

Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery

$499.99 $393.39 $262.42

Winged Words

This spell costs

less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.40 $0.15

Draw

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Chaoslace

Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Deathlace

Target spell or permanent becomes black. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Thirst for Identity

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a creature card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Thoughtlace

Target spell or permanent becomes blue. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.39 $0.18

Instant

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Badlands

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Land - Swamp Mountain

$749.99 $584.74 $307.07

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.18

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Mountain

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Basic Land - Mountain

$1.29 $0.32 $0.15

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Underground Sea

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Land - Island Swamp

$1599.99 $1099.49 $729.40

Volcanic Island

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Land - Island Mountain

$1199.99 $1007.98 $632.17

Land

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Crystal Rod

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay

. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Iron Star

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay

. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Throne of Bone

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay

. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Lifegain

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Wall of Bone

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Creature - Skeleton Wall

$0.35 $0.29 $0.17

Protection

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.43 $0.40

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.35 $0.19

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$12.99 $8.07 $8.33

Fire Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.79 $0.34 $0.26

Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.27 $0.18

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.41 $1.30

Ramp

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Blue Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target red spell.
• Destroy target red permanent.

Instant

$4.49 $1.70 $1.25

Earthquake

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.65 $0.34

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant

$2.29 $0.89 $0.84

Red Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.

Instant

$15.99 $10.28 $7.18

Removal

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Flow State

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If there is an instant card and a sorcery card in your graveyard, instead put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Sorcery

$2.99 $1.80 $0.61

Sorcery

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Smoke

Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.

Enchantment

$7.49 $8.90 $5.10

Stasis

Players skip their untap steps.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay

Enchantment

$15.99 $9.57 $7.71

Stax

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Word of Command

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. You control that player until Word of Command finishes resolving. The player plays that card if able. While doing so, the player can activate mana abilities only if they're from lands that player controls and only if mana they produce is spent to activate other mana abilities of lands the player controls and/or to play that card. If the chosen card is cast as a spell, you control the player while that spell is resolving.

Instant

$349.99 $386.00 $171.67

Theft

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $14,165.74

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.80Total Mana Value: 182.00

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53 pips - 43 cards

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8 pips - 6 cards

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2 mana - 1 card

Avg Mana Value: 2.80Total Mana Value: 182.00

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