1.1k
4/11/2025
Nicol Bolas, the Asshole
Deck Size: 100
Commander
Legal
Est deck cost: $821.89
Salt sum: 48.75
1.1k
4/11/2025
Compare
Deck filters

Choose your preferred layout. You can change this at any time using the Deck filters / View as options above.

Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $37.99
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Creature
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (pj21) 9Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (pj21) 9

Commander

(CTRL to add secondary)

Instant

Qty: 17 Price: $93.49
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 (c16) 83
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (sta) 13
Clockspinning

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

Instant
Clockspinning (tsp) 53
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (sta) 15
Expansion

Instant
Expansion // Explosion (grn) 224
Experimental Augury

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Experimental Augury (one) 49
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Flame of Anor

Choose one. If you control a Wizard as you cast this spell, you may choose two instead. • Target player draws two cards. • Destroy target artifact. • Flame of Anor deals 5 damage to target creature.

Instant
Flame of Anor (ltr) 203
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (c20) 111
Radstorm

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.) Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Radstorm (pip) 37
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
Reverberate

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reverberate (m11) 155
Ripples of Potential

Proliferate, then choose any number of permanents you control that had a counter put on them this way. Those permanents phase out. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Instant
Ripples of Potential (lcc) 45
Rush of Inspiration

Instant
Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257
Tainted Pact

Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.

Instant
Tainted Pact (sta) 33
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

Instant

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sorcery

Qty: 10 Price: $74.10
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
Chain of Smog

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Sorcery
Chain of Smog (plst) ONS-132
Crux of Fate

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

Sorcery
Crux of Fate (sta) 25
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (40k) 181
Infectious Inquiry

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Sorcery
Infectious Inquiry (one) 97
Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97
Solve the Equation

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

Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54
Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Tezzeret's Gambit (sta) 21
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

Sorcery

(CTRL to add secondary)

Artifact

Qty: 15 Price: $69.95
Aetheric Amplifier

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}, {T}: Choose one. Activate only as a sorcery. • Double the number of each kind of counter on target permanent. • Double the number of each kind of counter you have.

Artifact
Aetheric Amplifier (drc) 18
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (voc) 159
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
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (znc) 112
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (cm2) 188
Glistening Sphere

This artifact enters tapped. When this artifact enters, proliferate. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Corrupted — {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

Artifact
Glistening Sphere (onc) 20
Ichormoon Gauntlet

Planeswalkers you control have "[0]: Proliferate" and "[−12]: Take an extra turn after this one." Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, choose a counter on target permanent. Put an additional counter of that kind on that permanent.

Artifact
Ichormoon Gauntlet (one) 56
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (c20) 243
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (c16) 268
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (khm) 244
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc2) 7
Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (mh1) 231
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mic) 164
The Chain Veil

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life. {4}, {T}: For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

Artifact
The Chain Veil (cmm) 943

Artifact

(CTRL to add secondary)

Land (34 Total)

Qty: 28 Price: $349.50
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 (plst) DIS-171
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (ltc) 360
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cc2) 8
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (c13) 283
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (xln) 252
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
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (thb) 251
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (ncc) 410
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 (thb) 253
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.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (voc) 177
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1
Seething Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {U}{B}{R} ({U}{B}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Seething Landscape (mh3) 225
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (c21) 316
Snow-Covered Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Island (khm) 279
Snow-Covered Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Mountain (khm) 283
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 281
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 (grn) 257
Sulfur Falls

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

Land
Sulfur Falls (pdom) 247p
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 252
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmr) 358
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (c16) 335
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
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 (grn) 259
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 (34 Total)

(CTRL to add secondary)

Creature

Qty: 10 Price: $58.00
Deepglow Skate

When this creature enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

Creature
Deepglow Skate (2xm) 48
Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Displacer Kitten (clb) 63
Flux Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Flux Channeler (war) 52
Jin-Gitaxias

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis (mom) 65Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis (mom) 65
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 (mh1) 206
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered. Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Creature
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned (mid) 59
Nightscape Familiar

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

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
Sedgemoor Witch

Menace Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.) Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (stx) 115
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Flying If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead. {1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus (one) 71

Creature

(CTRL to add secondary)

Planeswalker

Qty: 11 Price: $47.49
Chandra, Hope's Beacon

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. +2: Add two mana in any combination of colors. +1: Exile the top five cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among those exiled cards. −X: Chandra deals X damage to each of up to two targets.

Planeswalker
Chandra, Hope's Beacon (mom) 134
Jace, Cunning Castaway

+1: Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player this turn, draw a card, then discard a card. −2: Create a 2/2 blue Illusion creature token with "When this token becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it." −5: Create two tokens that are copies of Jace, except they're not legendary.

Planeswalker
Jace, Cunning Castaway (xln) 60
Liliana Vess

+1: Target player discards a card. −2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. −8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Planeswalker
Liliana Vess (m11) 102
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 (hou) 140
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
Ral, Storm Conduit

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. +2: Scry 1. −2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Planeswalker
Ral, Storm Conduit (war) 211
Rowan, Scholar of Sparks

Planeswalker
Rowan, Scholar of Sparks // Will, Scholar of Frost (stx) 156Rowan, Scholar of Sparks // Will, Scholar of Frost (stx) 156
Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life. −3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10. −7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Planeswalker
Sorin Markov (plst) M12-109
Teferi, Temporal Archmage

+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library. −1: Untap up to four target permanents. −10: You get an emblem with "You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant." Teferi, Temporal Archmage can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Temporal Archmage (cmm) 125
Vronos, Masked Inquisitor

+1: Up to two other target planeswalkers you control phase out at the beginning of the next end step. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.) −2: For each opponent, return up to one target nonland permanent that player controls to its owner's hand. −7: Target artifact you control becomes a 9/9 Construct artifact creature and gains vigilance, indestructible, and "This creature can't be blocked."

Planeswalker
Vronos, Masked Inquisitor (cmm) 729

Planeswalker

(CTRL to add secondary)

Enchantment

Qty: 3 Price: $78.47
Omniscience

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Enchantment
Omniscience (m19) 65
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (jmp) 169
Thousand-Year Storm

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Enchantment
Thousand-Year Storm (grn) 207

Enchantment

(CTRL to add secondary)

REMOVE

Qty: 5 Price: $6.85
Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch

Creature
Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time (lci) 67Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time (lci) 67
Sulfurous Mire

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

Land
Sulfurous Mire (khm) 270
Teferi's Talent

Enchant planeswalker Enchanted planeswalker has "[−12]: You get an emblem with 'You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.'" Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on enchanted planeswalker.

Enchantment
Teferi's Talent (moc) 74
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (pthb) 245p
Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (pm21) 252p

REMOVE

(CTRL to add secondary)

ADD

Qty: 5 Price: $6.05
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 (dsc) 270
Dreamtide Whale

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Dreamtide Whale (mh3) 59
Insight

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Insight (tmp) 68
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 (c19) 252
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 (clu) 243

ADD

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Qty: 4 Price: $15.96
Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Prologue to Phyresis

Each opponent gets a poison counter. Draw a card.

Instant
Prologue to Phyresis (one) 65
Rite of the Dragoncaller

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Rite of the Dragoncaller (fdn) 92
Stormscale Scion

Flying Other Dragons you control get +1/+1. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. Copies become tokens.)

Creature
Stormscale Scion (tdm) 123

Maybeboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
54 pips - 39 cards
35 mana - 30 cards
29 pips - 18 cards
34 mana - 29 cards
21 pips - 15 cards
31 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 9 cards
CategoriesQtyOdds
Click charts to focus on cards
Deck extras (0)

Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Teferi + kitten + clockspining = you tell me"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Dragon God + jace when he forgot he was with the good guys + Gauntlet = you tell me"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Magecraft + Chain of Smog = infinite treasures (red one), infinite pest tokens (black one), self deck ( blue one, don’t do it)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Magecraft + self-copying spell = infinite treasures (red one), infinite pest tokens (black one), draw entire deck (blue one)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" Ral + chain of smog or self-copying spell = infinite damage"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
Unable to load comments
AutoNew CategoryMaybeboardSideboard