Old School Nicol Bolas • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.79

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

$2.79 $5.31 $0.73

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 1 Price: $49.99

Jandor's Saddlebags

: Untap target creature.

Artifact

$49.99 $60.93 $27.54

Artifact

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Attrition

Qty: 12 Price: $111.90

Abyssal Specter

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

Creature - Specter

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Blazing Specter

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

Creature - Specter

$5.49 $2.98 $1.59

Cuombajj Witches

: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to any target of an opponent's choice.

Creature - Human Wizard

$10.99 $8.71 $4.22

Deep Spawn

Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you mill two cards.

: This creature gains shroud until end of turn and doesn't untap during your next untap step. Tap this creature. (A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature - Homarid

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Entropic Specter

Flying
As this creature enters, choose an opponent.
Entropic Specter's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's hand.
Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature - Specter Spirit

$0.69 $0.46 $0.26

Hollow Specter

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

. If you do, that player reveals X cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Creature - Specter

$0.49 $0.43 $0.32

Hypnotic Specter

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

Creature - Specter

$74.99 $44.97 $18.06

Icy Manipulator

: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Artifact

$1.29 $2.62 $0.31

Phyrexian Tyranny

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

Enchantment

$2.99 $1.50 $1.12

Shivan Dragon

Flying

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature - Dragon

$11.99 $22.56 $4.15

Silent Specter

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.
Morph

(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature - Specter

$1.79 $0.51 $0.31

Strongarm Tactics

Each player discards a card. Then each player who didn't discard a creature card this way loses 4 life.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.38 $0.19

Attrition

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Control/Removal

Qty: 15 Price: $53.33

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$5.49 $3.16 $2.05

Ashes to Ashes

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.97 $0.34

Avatar of Woe

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs

less to cast.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature - Avatar

$13.99 $15.50 $3.86

Builder's Bane

Destroy X target artifacts. Builder's Bane deals damage to each player equal to the number of artifacts they controlled that were put into a graveyard this way.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Capsize

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant

$1.49 $0.74 $0.30

Disintegrate

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Sorcery

$0.99 $1.64 $0.52

Earthquake

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

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.92 $1.18

Fire Covenant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Instant

$2.49 $1.46 $0.52

Fireball

This spell costs

more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Sorcery

$2.99 $3.37 $0.92

Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped.

: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Artifact

$8.99 $7.50 $3.51

Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Instant

$1.29 $1.37 $0.41

Remove Soul

Counter target creature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Royal Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature - Human Assassin

$6.99 $16.51 $2.17

Shatter

Destroy target artifact.

Instant

$1.99 $1.41 $0.84

Terror

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Control/Removal

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Copy

Qty: 3 Price: $98.27

Clone

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

Creature - Shapeshifter

$1.29 $1.56 $0.15

Copy Artifact

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Enchantment

$84.99 $64.65 $33.08

Vesuvan Doppelganger

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it doesn't copy that creature's color and it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become a copy of target creature, except it doesn't copy that creature's color and it has this ability."

Creature - Shapeshifter

$11.99 $18.72 $4.53

Copy

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Draw/Card Advantage

Qty: 12 Price: $312.28

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery

$3.99 $1.92 $1.37

Braingeyser

Target player draws X cards.

Sorcery

$16.99 $16.80 $8.30

Brainstorm

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

Instant

$2.99 $2.53 $1.50

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$99.99 $62.71 $44.02

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant

$3.99 $1.61 $1.58

Greed

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment

$1.49 $1.42 $0.60

Lim-Dûl's Vault

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Instant

$6.49 $4.84 $2.59

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep

(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$14.99 $11.82 $5.73

Recall

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.46 $0.15

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $67.54 $42.66

Syphon Mind

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.42 $0.15

Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant

$84.99 $74.76 $50.57

Draw/Card Advantage

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $1257.89

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

$2.99 $1.36 $0.52

Caldera Lake

This land enters tapped.

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.49 $1.81 $0.83

Castle Sengir

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$29.99 $30.49 $19.00

Darkwater Catacombs

: Add

Land

$5.99 $3.57 $2.74

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$54.99 $45.63 $18.78

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$39.99 $45.00 $13.80

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

$0.99 $0.59 $0.15

Salt Marsh

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.75 $0.21

Shadowblood Ridge

: Add

Land

$4.99 $3.29 $2.37

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$21.99 $19.84 $10.83

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$47.99 $44.17 $15.53

Tainted Isle

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$4.49 $2.66 $2.49

Tainted Peak

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$3.49 $2.71 $0.78

Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$1.99 $1.25 $0.85

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$29.99 $29.50 $8.97

Urborg Volcano

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.32 $0.15

Land

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Ramp

Qty: 11 Price: $68.69

Apprentice Wizard

: Add

Creature - Human Wizard

$5.49 $7.34 $1.49

Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add

: Untap this artifact.

Artifact

$6.49 $6.44 $2.85

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $1.71 $0.36

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$5.49 $5.27 $2.21

Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact

$16.99 $18.70 $8.33

Fire Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$1.49 $0.71 $0.41

Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost

less to cast.

: Regenerate this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.99 $0.68 $0.35

Skull of Ramos

: Add

.
Sacrifice this artifact: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $2.30 $0.78

Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $1.51 $0.25

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$23.99 $37.31 $7.26

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$2.29 $1.54 $0.50

Ramp

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Steal

Qty: 8 Price: $35.22

Blatant Thievery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

Sorcery

$5.99 $3.52 $2.80

Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery

$12.99 $9.10 $5.34

Callous Oppressor

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.
As this creature enters, an opponent chooses a creature type.

: Gain control of target creature that isn't of the chosen type for as long as this creature remains tapped.

Creature - Octopus

$2.49 $1.67 $0.77

Coffin Queen

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.

: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When this creature becomes untapped or you lose control of this creature, exile that creature.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$3.99 $5.44 $3.09

Control Magic

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.49 $0.88 $0.41

Dominating Licid

: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay

to end this effect.
You control enchanted creature.

Creature - Licid

$1.79 $1.64 $0.64

Phyrexian Infiltrator

: Exchange control of this creature and target creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature - Minion Phyrexian

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Thieves' Auction

Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under their control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.

Sorcery

$5.99 $5.54 $3.54

Steal

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Maybeboard

Qty: 34 Price: $585.96

Abduction

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, untap enchanted creature.
You control enchanted creature.
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.49 $0.29 $0.18

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment - Aura

$10.99 $9.44 $4.84

Chilling Apparition

: Regenerate this creature.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Eye of Ramos

: Add

.
Sacrifice this artifact: Add

Artifact

$4.49 $3.05 $1.56

Forsaken Wastes

Players can't gain life.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life.
Whenever this enchantment becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

World Enchantment

$13.99 $13.99 $8.31

Gilded Drake

Flying
When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Creature - Drake

$299.99 $211.16 $175.04

Heart of Ramos

: Add

.
Sacrifice this artifact: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $8.39 $1.04

Howling Mine

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

Artifact

$9.49 $5.80 $4.38

Iron Maiden

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

Artifact

$11.99 $13.19 $7.35

Larceny

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Lavaborn Muse

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.

Creature - Spirit

$1.49 $0.45 $0.16

Megrim

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

Enchantment

$1.49 $1.01 $0.80

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

$0.69 $0.72 $0.26

Merfolk Looter

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$1.49 $1.44 $0.34

Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sorcery

$4.99 $5.15 $1.95

Ray of Command

Untap target creature an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the creature, tap it.

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Scion of Darkness

Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Avatar

$4.49 $2.60 $1.03

Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$22.99 $27.15 $14.58

Soldevi Excavations

If this land would enter, sacrifice an untapped Island instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add

: Scry 1.

Land

$10.99 $7.66 $4.15

Spinal Embrace

Cast this spell only during combat.
Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant

$0.79 $0.37 $0.16

Storm World

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is 4 minus the number of cards in their hand.

World Enchantment

$64.99 $46.52 $38.92

Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant

$5.49 $4.67 $2.85

Subversion

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Enchantment

$1.79 $2.23 $0.84

Sulfur Vent

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Sulfuric Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Enchantment

$7.49 $4.66 $1.96

Tarnished Citadel

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 3 damage to you.

Land

$21.99 $20.18 $12.60

Terminal Moraine

: Add

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

Land

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$1.79 $0.98 $0.28

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

$24.99 $21.36 $12.50

Thran Dynamo

: Add

Artifact

$7.49 $5.72 $2.60

Threaten

Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and

this turn.)

Sorcery

$9.99 $5.29 $5.30

Unnerve

Each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Wei Night Raiders

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card.

Creature - Human Soldier

$32.99 $34.89 $39.99

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,990.36

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.11Total Mana Value: 196.00

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35 pips - 25 cards

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15 pips - 11 cards

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18 mana - 11 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.11Total Mana Value: 196.00

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