Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

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}.

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.

Mindclaw Shaman

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Crux of Fate

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

Moaning Wall

Defender
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Rakka Mar

Haste
{R}, {T}: Create a 3/1 red Elemental creature token with haste.

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.

Jace's Triumph

Draw two cards. If you control a Jace planeswalker, draw three cards instead.

Liliana, Untouched by Death

+1: Mill three cards. If at least one Zombie card is milled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
−2: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
−3: You may cast Zombie spells from your graveyard this turn.

Dunes of the Dead

{T}: Add {C}.
When this land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

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.

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.

No Escape

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Scry 1.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Woodland Stream

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Open into Wonder

X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Brotherhood's End

Choose one —
• Brotherhood's End deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.
• Destroy all artifacts with mana value 3 or less.

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.

Island

Finale of Eternity

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Avatar

Maelstrom Pulse

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

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.

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.

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Cascading Cataracts

Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Add five mana in any combination of colors.

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Spark Harvest

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

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Duskmantle Operative

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 4 or greater.

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.

Null Elemental Blast

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

Crush Dissent

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
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.)

In Bolas's Clutches

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

Tormenting Voice

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

Naga Vitalist

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

Manticore Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
This creature attacks each combat if able.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.

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.

Topple the Statue

Tap target permanent. If it's an artifact, destroy it.
Draw a card.

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.

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.)

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.

Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Gideon's Sacrifice

Choose a creature or planeswalker you control. All damage that would be dealt this turn to you and permanents you control is dealt to the chosen permanent instead (if it's still on the battlefield).

Cower in Fear

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Rakdos Signet

Repercussion

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, this enchantment deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Prison Realm

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
When this enchantment enters, scry 1.

Izzet Signet

Dimir Signet

Imminent Doom

This enchantment enters with a doom counter on it.
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value equal to the number of doom counters on this enchantment, this enchantment deals that much damage to any target. Then put a doom counter on this enchantment.

Zombie Warrior

Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Creatures you control get +1/+0.
+1: Add {R} or {G}. Creature spells you cast this turn can't be countered.
−2: Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Eternal of Harsh Truths

Afflict 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 2 life.)
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, draw a card.

Liliana's Defeat

Destroy target black creature or black planeswalker. If that permanent was a Liliana planeswalker, her controller loses 3 life.

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.

Mountain

Storm the Citadel

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls."

Magmaquake

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

Sol Ring

Chromatic Lantern

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

Crumbling Necropolis

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

Blood Reckoning

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

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.

Gideon's Defeat

Exile target white creature that's attacking or blocking. If it was a Gideon planeswalker, you gain 5 life.

Evolving Wilds

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

Delayed Blast Fireball

Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead.
Foretell {4}{R}{R} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Terramorphic Expanse

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.

Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner

Flying, vigilance, trample
Palladia-Mors has hexproof if it hasn't dealt damage yet.

Finishing Move

You get {TK}{TK}, then you may put a sticker on a nonland permanent you own. Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.

Exotic Orchard

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

Wasp of the Bitter End

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

Totally Lost

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

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.

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.

Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

+1: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−1: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5.
−4: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is twice the number of artifacts you control.

War Screecher

Flying
{5}{W}, {T}: Other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Doomfall

Choose one —
• Target opponent exiles a creature they control.
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

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.

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorin's Thirst

Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Desperate Lunge

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Jace's Defeat

Counter target blue spell. If it was a Jace planeswalker spell, scry 2.

Vorthos, Steward of Myth

As Vorthos, Steward of Myth enters, choose a named Magic character.
Each spell you cast with the chosen character in its name, flavor text, or art costs {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} less to cast. This effect reduces only the amount of colored mana you pay.

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Gitaxian Spellstalker

Trample, ward {2}, prowess, prowess (Each instance of prowess triggers separately.)

Khenra Spellspear

Trample
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{3}{U/P}: Transform this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Khenra Spellspear // Gitaxian Spellstalker

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.

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.

Conflux

Search your library for a white card, a blue card, a black card, a red card, and a green card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Command Tower

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

Ajani's Last Stand

Whenever a creature or planeswalker you control dies, you may sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, create a 4/4 white Avatar creature token with flying.
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, if you control a Plains, create a 4/4 white Avatar creature token with flying.

Cinder Barrens

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

Core Set 2019 Checklist

(Use this card to represent a double-faced Nicol Bolas card in your library or hand.)
☐ Nicol Bolas, the Ravager {1}{U}{B}{R}

Price of Betrayal

Remove up to five counters from target artifact, creature, planeswalker, or opponent.