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Nicol Bolas (Retired)
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $265.35
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Commander

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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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Land

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Badlands

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Land
Badlands (vma) 291
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 (prm) 36254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (znc) 124
Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (e01) 92
Crypt of the Eternals

When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crypt of the Eternals (hou) 169
Desert of the Fervent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Fervent (hou) 170
Desert of the Glorified

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Glorified (hou) 171
Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Mindful (hou) 173
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (gk1) 23
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Eroded Canyon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Eroded Canyon (otj) 256
Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Ifnir Deadlands (hou) 179
Interplanar Beacon

Whenever you cast a planeswalker spell, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add two mana of different colors. Spend this mana only to cast planeswalker spells.

Land
Interplanar Beacon (war) 247
Ipnu Rivulet

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Land
Ipnu Rivulet (hou) 180
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (akh) 251
Izzet Boilerworks

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (gk1) 47
Jagged Barrens

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Jagged Barrens (otj) 259
Lazotep Quarry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color. {X}{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Lazotep Quarry (m3c) 131
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 253
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 (prm) 43582
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (c18) 273
Ramunap Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R}. {2}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: This land deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Land
Ramunap Ruins (otc) 311
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
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (ori) 251
Soured Springs

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Soured Springs (otj) 264
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 252
Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 134
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (bro) 300
Underground Sea

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

Land
Underground Sea (vma) 323
Volcanic Island

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)

Land
Volcanic Island (vma) 324
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) 294

Land

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Removal

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (hou) 83
Hour of Glory

Exile target creature. If that creature was a God, its controller reveals their hand and exiles all cards from it with the same name as that creature.

Instant
Hour of Glory (hou) 65
In Bolas's Clutches

Enchant permanent You control enchanted permanent. Enchanted permanent is legendary.

Enchantment
In Bolas's Clutches (dom) 54
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent. −2: Gain control of target creature. −9: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents of their choice.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (e01) 85
Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver

+3: Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card. −3: Destroy target creature. Draw a card. −11: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to each opponent. You draw seven cards.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver (hou) 205
Spark Harvest

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Spark Harvest (war) 105
The Elderspell

Destroy any number of target planeswalkers. Choose a planeswalker you control. Put two loyalty counters on it for each planeswalker destroyed this way.

Sorcery
The Elderspell (war) 89
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 (dom) 90
The Scorpion God

Whenever a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, draw a card. {1}{B}{R}: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature. When The Scorpion God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scorpion God (hou) 146
Tyrant's Scorn

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. • Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Tyrant's Scorn (war) 225
Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Unsummon (hou) 54
Wasp of the Bitter End

Flying Whenever you cast a Bolas planeswalker spell, you may sacrifice this creature. If you do, destroy target creature.

Creature
Wasp of the Bitter End (hou) 206

Removal

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Amass

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Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (war) 86
Gleaming Overseer

When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Zombie tokens you control have hexproof and menace.

Creature
Gleaming Overseer (war) 198
Lazotep Chancellor

Whenever you discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Creature
Lazotep Chancellor (mh2) 203
Vizier of the Scorpion

When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Zombie tokens you control have deathtouch.

Creature
Vizier of the Scorpion (war) 111

Amass

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Obligated

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God-Pharaoh's Statue

Spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life.

Artifact
God-Pharaoh's Statue (war) 238
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 (a25) 209

Obligated

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Sweeper

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Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Fraying Omnipotence (m19) 97
Hour of Devastation

All creatures lose indestructible until end of turn. Hour of Devastation deals 5 damage to each creature and each non-Bolas planeswalker.

Sorcery
Hour of Devastation (hou) 97
Magmaquake

Magmaquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each planeswalker.

Instant
Magmaquake (c14) 180
The Elder Dragon War

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga deals 2 damage to each creature and each opponent. II — Discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards. III — Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Enchantment
The Elder Dragon War (dmu) 121
Widespread Brutality

Amass Zombies 2, then the Army you amassed deals damage equal to its power to each non-Army creature. (To amass Zombies 2, put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Sorcery
Widespread Brutality (war) 226

Sweeper

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Card Advantage

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Apex of Power

Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among them. If this spell was cast from your hand, add ten mana of any one color.

Sorcery
Apex of Power (m19) 129
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
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 (pwar) 41
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 (pwar) 79
Champion of Wits

When this creature enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards. Eternalize {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Champion of Wits (hou) 31
Commence the Endgame

This spell can't be countered. Draw two cards, then amass Zombies X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Instant
Commence the Endgame (war) 45
Cruel Ultimatum

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

Sorcery
Cruel Ultimatum (e01) 82
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 (2x2) 44
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
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 (m13) 88
Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead. When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.

Creature
Fblthp, the Lost (pwar) 50p
Gate to the Afterlife

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Artifact
Gate to the Afterlife (akh) 228
Gem of Becoming

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for an Island card, a Swamp card, and a Mountain card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Gem of Becoming (m13) 205
God-Eternal Bontu

Menace When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards. When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Bontu (war) 92
Honor the God-Pharaoh

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Sorcery
Honor the God-Pharaoh (war) 132
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

Trample Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, draw that many cards and add that much {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

Creature
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion (war) 140
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 (pwar) 207p
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 (hou) 140
Patient Rebuilding

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent mills three cards, then you draw a card for each land card put into their graveyard this way.

Enchantment
Patient Rebuilding (m19) 67
Seek Bolas's Counsel

Choose one at random — • You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, pay {U}{B}{R}. If you don't, you lose the game." • Each player discards their hand. • Planeswalk to Pools of Becoming. (Once there, you can roll the planar die only if you're playing Planechase.) • For each opponent, exile cards from the top of their library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs. • Destroy all creatures and non-Bolas planeswalkers. • You get an emblem with "You can cast nonland cards from your sideboard."

Sorcery
Seek Bolas's Counsel (cmb2) 98
Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Soul Diviner (war) 218
Supreme Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Supreme Will (cmr) 102
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 (hou) 139
Tormenting Voice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tormenting Voice (dtk) 163

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Ramp

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Manalith

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Manalith (hou) 164
Visage of Bolas

When this artifact enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Artifact
Visage of Bolas (hou) 208
War of the Spark

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Each player may put a planeswalker or Zombie card from War of the Spark from their hand or graveyard onto the battlefield. II — Sacrifice any number of creatures and/or planeswalkers. Each opponent sacrifices that many creatures and/or planeswalkers. III — Exile up to one target Bolas. Proliferate three times.

Enchantment
War of the Spark (ph19) 3

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Tutor

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Planar Bridge

{8}, {T}: Search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Artifact
Planar Bridge (aer) 171

Tutor

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Counterspells

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Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Instant
Countersquall (ddh) 59
Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Soul Manipulation (znc) 100

Counterspells

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Recursion

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Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Dreamstealer

Menace Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards that many cards. Eternalize {4}{B}{B} ({4}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Dreamstealer (hou) 63
God-Eternal Kefnet

Flying You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, copy that card and you may cast the copy. That copy costs {2} less to cast. When God-Eternal Kefnet dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Kefnet (war) 53
God-Pharaoh's Gift

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. It gains haste until end of turn.

Artifact
God-Pharaoh's Gift (hou) 161
Hour of Eternity

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Sorcery
Hour of Eternity (hou) 36
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 (hou) 145

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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The Battle of Dragon Brothers

Battle
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0 mana - 6 cards
36 pips - 28 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
47 pips - 34 cards
27 mana - 26 cards
29 pips - 20 cards
23 mana - 22 cards
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0 mana - 6 cards
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11 mana - 11 cards
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