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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager/Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
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Est deck cost: $265.27
Salt sum: 28.68
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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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Cycle 2 Mana Colorless

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Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (akh) 78
Countervailing Winds

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Countervailing Winds (hou) 32
Expunge

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Expunge (usg) 135
Hollow One

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card you've cycled or discarded this turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature Artifact
Hollow One (hou) 163
Miscalculation

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Miscalculation (plst) ULG-36
Neutralize

Counter target spell. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Neutralize (j22) 327
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (iko) 61
Rescind

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Rescind (usg) 92
Shimmerscale Drake

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

Creature
Shimmerscale Drake (plst) AKH-70
Shredded Sails

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Shredded Sails deals 4 damage to target creature with flying. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Shredded Sails (j22) 599
Vile Manifestation

This creature gets +1/+0 for each card with cycling in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Vile Manifestation (hou) 80
Wasteland Scorpion

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

Creature
Wasteland Scorpion (akh) 116

Cycle 2 Mana Colorless

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Cycle Lands

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (dsc) 260
Barren Moor

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

Land
Barren Moor (dsc) 262
Blasted Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Blasted Landscape (plst) CM2-238
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (dsc) 266
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 (c21) 286
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 (c21) 287
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (otc) 296
Forgotten Cave

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

Land
Forgotten Cave (j25) 766
Lonely Sandbar

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

Land
Lonely Sandbar (j25) 769
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

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Drake Haven

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Drake Haven (akh) 51
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
Dreadhorde Twins

When this creature enters, 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.) Zombie tokens you control have trample.

Creature
Dreadhorde Twins (war) 126
Eternal Skylord

When this creature enters, 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.) Zombie tokens you control have flying.

Creature
Eternal Skylord (war) 49
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
Rampaging War Mammoth

Trample Cycling {X}{2}{R} ({X}{2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, destroy up to X target artifacts.

Creature
Rampaging War Mammoth (ltc) 34
Ruthless Sniper

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Ruthless Sniper (akh) 105
Stir the Sands

Create three 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Cycling {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Sorcery
Stir the Sands (akh) 110
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
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

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Omen Hawker

{T}: Add {C}{U}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.

Creature
Omen Hawker (mom) 70
The Enigma Jewel

Artifact
The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55
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
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

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Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131

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Land

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Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
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 (otc) 288
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (pip) 262
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
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 (2x2) 326
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 253
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
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Scavenger Grounds

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

Land
Scavenger Grounds (otc) 316
Sulfur Falls

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

Land
Sulfur Falls (blc) 333
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 252

Land

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Abandoned Sarcophagus

You may cast spells that have a cycling ability from your graveyard. If a card that has a cycling ability would be put into your graveyard from anywhere and it wasn't cycled, exile it instead.

Artifact
Abandoned Sarcophagus (hou) 158
Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Bone Miser

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

Creature
Bone Miser (c19) 15
Currency Converter

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {T}: Put a card exiled with this artifact into your graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.

Artifact
Currency Converter (ncc) 81
Dying to Serve

Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Dying to Serve (vow) 109
Escape Protocol

Whenever you cycle a card, you may pay {1}. When you do, exile target artifact or creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Escape Protocol (iko) 48
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
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
New Perspectives

When this enchantment enters, draw three cards. As long as you have seven or more cards in hand, you may pay {0} rather than pay cycling costs.

Enchantment
New Perspectives (akh) 63
Shadow of the Grave

Return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that you cycled or discarded this turn.

Instant
Shadow of the Grave (akh) 107
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371

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Oliphaunt

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. Mountaincycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Oliphaunt (ltr) 426
Troll of Khazad-dûm

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures. Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Troll of Khazad-dûm (ltr) 111

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Complicate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Instant
Complicate (ons) 76
Nimble Obstructionist

Flash Flying Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Creature
Nimble Obstructionist (c20) 121

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Bringer of the Last Gift

Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it, each player sacrifices all other creatures they control. Then each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard that weren't put there this way to the battlefield.

Creature
Bringer of the Last Gift (lci) 94
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (blc) 182
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (ltc) 203

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Censor

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Censor (akh) 46
Curator of Mysteries

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Curator of Mysteries (afc) 81
Horror of the Broken Lands

Whenever you cycle or discard another card, this creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Horror of the Broken Lands (a25) 93
Razaketh's Rite

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Razaketh's Rite (hou) 74
Scarab Feast

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Scarab Feast (plst) AKH-106

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The Balrog of Moria

Trample, haste When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it. When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls. Cycling {3}{R} ({3}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create two Treasure tokens.

Creature
The Balrog of Moria (ltc) 46

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Chromatic Orrery

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}{C}. {5}, {T}: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

Artifact
Chromatic Orrery (m21) 228
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (brc) 138
Fluctuator

Cycling abilities you activate cost {2} less to activate.

Artifact
Fluctuator (c20) 241
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (lcc) 306
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (mh2) 428
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (brc) 156
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (onc) 140
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (who) 248
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (m3c) 310
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (m3c) 312

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Emrakul's Messenger

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Emrakul's Messenger (mh3) 61
Homunculus Horde

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Homunculus Horde (fdn) 308
Improbable Alliance

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying. {4}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Enchantment
Improbable Alliance (eld) 193
Mischievous Mystic

Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.

Creature
Mischievous Mystic (fdn) 47

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Ancient Excavation

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard a card for each card drawn this way. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Instant
Ancient Excavation (c16) 27
Boon of the Wish-Giver

Draw four cards. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Boon of the Wish-Giver (iko) 43
Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 79
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
Drannith Stinger

Whenever you cycle another card, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Drannith Stinger (j22) 78
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (pm20) 247p
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
Polluted Mire

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Polluted Mire (dmr) 253
Remote Isle

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Remote Isle (dmr) 254
Smoldering Crater

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Smoldering Crater (dmr) 257
Starstorm

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Starstorm (c20) 160
Surly Badgersaur

Whenever you discard a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you discard a land card, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, this creature fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Surly Badgersaur (c20) 57
Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. −3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) −10: Take two extra turns after this one.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Master of Time (m21) 276
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (usg) 111
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

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