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Bolas Despair
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $563.48
Salt sum: 41.12
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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

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

Commander

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (woc) 145
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
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (woc) 146
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (woc) 147
Geth's Grimoire

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

Artifact
Geth's Grimoire (dst) 123
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (cmm) 957
Laser Screwdriver

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Tap target artifact. {2}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) {3}, {T}: Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, it attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Artifact
Laser Screwdriver (who) 178
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (woc) 149
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (cmm) 979
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (woc) 150
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414

Artifact

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Battle

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Invasion of Amonkhet

Battle
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231

Battle

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Creature

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Augur of Bolas

When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Creature
Augur of Bolas (war) 41
Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (brc) 120
Bladecoil Serpent

When this creature enters, for each {U}{U} spent to cast it, draw a card. When this creature enters, for each {B}{B} spent to cast it, each opponent discards a card. When this creature enters, for each {R}{R} spent to cast it, it gets +1/+0 and gains trample and haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Bladecoil Serpent (bro) 229
Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Burglar Rat (jmp) 214
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Elderfang Disciple

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Elderfang Disciple (khm) 93
Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Flying At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Herald of Anguish (aer) 64
Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace When Junji dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Creature
Junji, the Midnight Sky (neo) 102
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

When Kroxa enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Kroxa enters or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life. Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (thb) 221
Liliana's Specter

Flying When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Liliana's Specter (pca) 34
Nezumi Informant

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Nezumi Informant (mom) 120
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
Sheoldred

Creature
Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125
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 (cmm) 856
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
Virus Beetle

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature Artifact
Virus Beetle (neo) 128

Creature

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Enchantment

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Creeping Dread

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Each opponent who discarded a card that shares a card type with the card you discarded loses 3 life. (Players reveal the discarded cards simultaneously.)

Enchantment
Creeping Dread (soi) 104
Disinformation Campaign

When this enchantment enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card. Whenever you surveil, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Disinformation Campaign (grn) 167
Enhanced Surveillance

You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil. Exile this enchantment: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (grn) 40
Hopeless Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life. When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2. {2}{B}: Sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Hopeless Nightmare (woe) 95
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74
The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. II — Each opponent discards a card. III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
The Eldest Reborn (cmm) 867
Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment
Waste Not (c16) 117

Enchantment

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Instant

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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 (voc) 102
Borne Upon a Wind

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash. Draw a card.

Instant
Borne Upon a Wind (ltr) 44
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (mid) 44
Curate

Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Draw a card.

Instant
Curate (bro) 44
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 (cmm) 84
Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Mission Briefing (grn) 44
Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mid) 67
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (moc) 230
Quicken

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

Instant
Quicken (dds) 6
Shadow of Doubt

({U/B} can be paid with either {U} or {B}.) Players can't search libraries this turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Shadow of Doubt (rav) 253
Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Instant
Skeletal Scrying (c17) 125
Think Twice

Draw a card. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Think Twice (tsr) 92

Instant

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Land

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Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (cmm) 990
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (woc) 156
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dmc) 207
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (woc) 159
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Graven Cairns (2xm) 320
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 269
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (woe) 274
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
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
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (cmm) 1036
Steam Vents

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

Land
Steam Vents (rvr) 288
Sulfur Falls

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

Land
Sulfur Falls (dmr) 258
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (woc) 168
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 272
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291
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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Planeswalker

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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 (war) 207
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

Planeswalker

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Sorcery

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Arterial Flow

Each opponent discards two cards. If you control a Vampire, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Arterial Flow (rix) 62
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 (cmm) 872
Dark Intimations

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, then discards a card. You return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand, then draw a card. When you cast a Bolas planeswalker spell, exile this card from your graveyard. That planeswalker enters with an additional loyalty counter on it.

Sorcery
Dark Intimations (aer) 128
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (cmm) 86
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 (war) 85
Discovery

Sorcery
Discovery // Dispersal (grn) 223
Doomsday Confluence

Choose X. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Each player sacrifices a nonartifact creature of their choice. • Create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace. • Each opponent discards a card.

Sorcery
Doomsday Confluence (who) 67
Notion Rain

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Notion Rain (grn) 193
Tasigur's Cruelty

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

Sorcery
Tasigur's Cruelty (frf) 88
Torment of Hailfire

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

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (hou) 77
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 (cmm) 191
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
Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

Sorcery
Vicious Rumors (grn) 89

Sorcery

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