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"Even gods shall kneel" - Nicol Bolas
Deck Size: 96
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $1081.44
Salt Sum: 59.5
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $2.49
Nicol Bolas

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {U}{B}{R}. Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

Creature
Nicol Bolas (tsb) 98
1

Artifact

Quantity: 11Price: $93.49
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
1
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 (war) 79
1
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (cmm) 376
1
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
1
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
1
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
1
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Talisman of Creativity deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (clb) 876
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (scd) 280
1
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
1
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285
1

Creature

Quantity: 17Price: $326.43
Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (brc) 120
1
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
1
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
1
Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters the battlefield, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
1
Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Kess, Dissident Mage (ncc) 344
1
Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (ima) 95
1
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Creature
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (m19) 218Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (m19) 218
1
Nightscape Familiar

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

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
1
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
1
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
1
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When Orcish Bowmasters enters the battlefield and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, Orcish Bowmasters deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 554
1
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
1
Spark Double

You may have Spark Double enter the battlefield 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 (cmm) 856
1
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
1
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
1
The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. {2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scarab God (cmm) 353
1
Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash When Tishana's Tidebinder enters the battlefield, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Creature
Tishana's Tidebinder (lci) 81
1

Enchantment

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Animate Dead

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

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
1
Liliana's Caress

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Enchantment
Liliana's Caress (m11) 103
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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 {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
1
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
1
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
1
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
1

Instant

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (scd) 42
1
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
Arcane Denial (woc) 84
1
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
Crosis's Charm (plst) C17-169
1
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 (rtr) 35
1
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 214
1
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
1
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
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
1
Grixis Charm

Choose one — • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Grixis Charm (c13) 192
1
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
1
Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Narset's Reversal (war) 62
1

Land

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Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (plst) DIS-171
1
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (plst) CMD-269
1
Crumbling Necropolis

Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (brc) 179
1
Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dmc) 207
1
Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (plst) RIX-186
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (plst) CON-142
1
Haunted Ridge

Haunted Ridge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (plst) AKH-258
2
Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
1
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
1
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (plst) AKH-264
2
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
1
Scalding Tarn

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

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
1
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314
1
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
1
Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
1
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 255
1
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (grn) 257
1
Stormcarved Coast

Stormcarved Coast enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Stormcarved Coast (vow) 265
1
Sulfur Falls

Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (dmr) 258
1
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (plst) HOU-195
2
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (plst) TSP-279
1
Training Center

Training Center enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
1
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
1
Vivid Marsh

Vivid Marsh enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Marsh: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Marsh (c17) 292
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259
1
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) Xander's Lounge enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260
1

Planeswalker

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Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (war) 61
1
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God 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 (war) 207
1
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, God-Pharaoh 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
1

Sorcery

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Blue Sun's Twilight

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Sorcery
Blue Sun's Twilight (one) 43
1
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
Bribery (cmm) 77
1
Crux of Fate

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

Sorcery
Crux of Fate (c17) 107
1
Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (plst) NPH-35
1
Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Inquisition of Kozilek (2x2) 80
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
1
Slave of Bolas

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery
Slave of Bolas (plst) E01-86
1
Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Thoughtseize (2xm) 109
1
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
1
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
1
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (cmm) 267
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"As I Desire, So Shall It Be\n\nThis deck wants to be a Casually Powerful deck.\n\nIt avoids tutors where possible\nIt avoids competitive fast mana (Mana Crypt, Jeweled Lotus, Ancient Tomb, etc.).\nIt avoids two-card combos.\nIt avoids cards that /feel/ wrong (this is super nebulous).\n\nCuts & additions including the thought process behind them in the Comments.\n\n--\n\nThis deck is a retool of the original Nicol Bolas deck.\nLet it be forever enshrined that the original deck was what got me into EDH.\n\nI played Magic with my friend Johnny but disliked the idea of Commander.\nI also fucking love Nicol Boals because he's a petty and snarky ass dragon.\nJohhny asked if i'd play a deck with Nicol Bolas.\nI said yes, then rattled of a list of demands for the deck which Johnny humbly obliged.\n\nI am eternally grateful to him for that. I loved that deck and Johnny did the best he could and having no context for Commander I didn't even sort of realize the very cool gift he had just given me.\n\nI remember looking at Rhystic Study and being like 'Oh this card seems bad we should cut it'. LMAO.\n"}]}
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