Nicol Bolas, the Ravager | Nicol Bolas, the Arisen by reinyday

Format: Commander

Commander: Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Superfriends control deck commanded by Nicol Bolas, the Ravager. The primary strategy focuses on controlling the board through efficient removal, sweepers, and stax pieces like Narset, Parter of Veils and Silent Arbiter, while accelerating into powerful planeswalkers such as Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God and Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh. A robust proliferation suite—featuring Flux Channeler, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, and Ichormoon Gauntlet—rapidly inflates loyalty counters to unlock game-winning ultimate abilities ahead of schedule. Fast mana rituals and mana rocks allow the deck to cheat the curve and deploy high-impact threats early. The deck sustains card advantage through repeated planeswalker loyalty activations and draw engines like Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain and Phyrexian Arena. With dense stack interaction and phasing protection from Ripples of Potential, the deck systematically strips opponent resources, locks out combat, and secures victory through planeswalker ultimates, commander damage, or swarms from The Locust God.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deliver Unto Evil
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Ichormoon Gauntlet
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Interplanar Beacon
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Liliana's Talent
  • 1 Luxior, Giada's Gift
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rush of Knowledge
  • 1 Sanctum Lurker
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sivitri, Dragon Master
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Teferi, Master of Time
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Chain Veil
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traverse Eternity
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Vronos, Masked Inquisitor
  • 1 Whelming Wave
  • 1 Will Kenrith
  • 1 Xander's Lounge